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deserves to be recognized and celebrated.
- The Queen and the Duke certainly do seem
particularly at ease here.
It was Duke himself, who decided that they should spend
the actual day of their anniversary on Malta.
For this very private of public couples,
quite a romantic gesture.
- Finished?
- Prince Philip has walked two steps
behind her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth
ever since she became queen in 1952.
- You're now seeing the world's most experienced plucker.
- For many years before then
and many years since,
he has been the supporting man, husband and father,
that the royal family has needed him to be.
For over six decades, he has fulfilled his duty
as Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
Over the years, his personality has shown through
in his charitable work and public appearances.
He is not your run of the mill stiff upper lip royalty
by any means.
His wit and charm has endeared him to many
and sometimes got him into trouble,
but he will always be admired for his lifetime of duty.
- Well, back to work.
- Your father, the Duke of Edinburgh,
is in hospital at the moment.
Do you mind me asking how he is at the moment?
- Well, as far as I'm aware,
well, I did speak to him the other day,
so he's, he's, he's a lot better.
Thank you very much, indeed.
And, and so, and he's looking forward
to getting out, which is, which is the most positive thing.
So we keep our fingers crossed.
- Sense frustration at being in hospital?
- Just a bit.
I think that gets to all of us.
So, and then, but so yeah,
you can, you can only watch the clock so many times
and you know the molds are only so interesting.
- Well, we all wish him well.
- You're very kind.
- Thank you very much. - Thank you.
We've had some brilliant and lovely messages
from all sorts of people and, and we really appreciate that.
So and so to see I've been passing them on.
So that's fantastic.
Thank you.
- Prince Phillip of Greece and Denmark
was born in Mon Repos, on the Greek Island of Corfu
on June 10th, 1921.
The only son and 5th and final child
of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark
and Princess Alice of Battenberg.
After a suffocating loss during the Greco Turkish War,
a revolutionary court banished Phillip's father
from Greece for life and he evacuated the country
with his family aboard HMS Calypso.
It was a difficult and strenuous upbringing,
fraught with tragedy, moving from place to place.
- Prince Philip was born on the Greek Island of Corfu.
His father was in the Greek army and eventually
the family were exiled from Greece
and went to live in Paris,
where Prince Philip was sent to school.
Then his mother, who was mentally very fragile,
went into a sanatorium
and it was decided that it would be better for Philip
to be educated by his cousins in England.
So he was sent to school in England
and lived with his cousins,
the Marchioness of Milford Haven
and then he eventually was sent to Gordonstoun,
but all this made him very independent and very strong
and he never says,
he always maintains he didn't have an unhappy childhood.
It was probably a very interesting childhood
because he he traveled from a very, very early age
and also they were a very grand family.
They were princes of Greece and Denmark.
So they were related to both sides
and they were actually also related
to all the houses of Europe.
So they had a lot of very influential relations
and when there wasn't any money,
their relations paid for them as,
as was the way it went in those days.
So his mother was queen Victoria's great-granddaughter
and his mother was born in Windsor Castle, actually
and his mother was also Lord Louis Mountbatten's sister.
She was, she was stone deaf.
So as a, as a young boy principle learned sign language
but he understood his mother.
And also they were, they were so international the family,
that they spoke, they spoke in French,
they spoke in German and their spoken English.
They didn't really speak in Greek,
but they did did speak all the other European languages.
They thought that being educated in England
with his cousins would be more stable for him
and also if you think about it, you know,
it was the outbreak of Nazi Germany
and they thought it would be for Phillip
to be out of Europe and in England.
It would be safer for him.
Prince Phillip fulfilled his military service
in the Royal Navy and he was,
he was educated at Dartmouth college
and then he left college and went straight into the Navy
and he actually saw action
and he saw the Japanese surrender at the Battle of Matapan.
- Phillip finally found stability
in the Royal Navy in 1939, when he became a cadet
at the Royal Naval College Dartmouth,
the very place he would meet his future bride, Elizabeth.
- Well, Prince Phillip actually said that, you know,
if he he'd in a way, he'd rather have gone
into the Air Force than the Navy, but again,
Louis Mountbatten was pushing him towards the Navy
and I, he didn't regret it, but he always loved flying.
I think that you'll find that a lot of royal family members
love flying because it's the freedom
and being in control of your own aircraft.
So Prince Philip trained at a place called White Wolfson
and he was given his wings
so he could fly on his own
but certainly the prime minister of the day,
Winston Churchill, was not very happy about the idea
of you know, Prince Philip being the Queen's husband,
flying and possibly having an accident
and I think the queen was nervous about it too,
but you know, but she wanted Phillip
to have some independence and that was a great leap
towards independence for him being able to fly
and then he learned to fly helicopters.
So it gave him a lot of freedom.
- A hundred years of devoted service to the nation
deserves to be recognized and celebrated
and it therefore, gives me great pleasure
to present this, my banner, to the Army Cadet Force
at the start of its centenary year.
It will be taken to every county of the United Kingdom
and it will be seen at parades and services
held to mark this historic year for the Army Cadet Force.
Let it be a token of appreciation
for past endeavors and an encouragement for the future.
- Elizabeth and Philip were first introduced
to one another when Elizabeth was just eight years old.
According to eyewitnesses, it was at the wedding
of Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, Phillip's cousin,
and Prince George, Duke of Kent, Elizabeth's uncle in 1934.
It wasn't until five years later when Elizabeth was 13
and Phillip was 18 that the two met again
at the Royal Naval College in Dartmouth.
This time Elizabeth fell in love with the man
who would become her future husband.
- Princess Elizabeth met Prince Philip at a family wedding
but she can't really remember that moment.
The reason that we know so much about it is
because her governess, Marion Crawford,
talks in great detail about their first meeting
at Dartmouth College, where Prince Phillip
was a naval cadet and he was very, very good looking.
18 years old, very striking, blonde-looking.
and he was assigned to look after the two princesses,
Elizabeth and Margaret, for the day, for their visit
while their parents went around the college.
I mean, it was quite strange to think
of an 18 year-old looking after the princess
as the oldest of whom was 13,
but he decided that it would be fun
if they jumped the tennis nets.
He took the princesses outside
and he jumped the tennis nets for them
and they were very, very impressed.
Later, he went on board the vessel that,
that the King and Queen had come to Dartmouth in
and he had lunch and then in the following day,
he went and had tea.
So that was the meeting that the princess remembered.
- Elizabeth was just 21 when their engagement
was announced on July 9th, 1947.
The engagement was not without controversy.
Phillip had no financial standing, was foreign born
and had sisters who had married German noblemen
with Nazi links.
Before the marriage, Phillip renounced his Greek
and Danish titles,
officially converted from Greek Orthodoxy to Anglicanism
and adopted the style Lieutenant Phillip Mountbatten,
taking the surname of his mother's British family.
Just before the wedding he was created Duke of Edinburgh
and granted the style, His Royal Highness.
- When her engagement
to Lieutenant Phillip Mountbatten of the Royal Navy
is announced, the heart of the world is thrilled
by the prospect of one royal wedding
with a genuine aura romance.
A former Greek prince, Phillip gave up his Greek citizenship
to become a British subject.
On the eve of the wedding, the King elevates him
to the peerage and he becomes officially,
His Royal Highness Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh
Earl of Merioneth and Barron Greenwich.
From all over Christendom, gorgeous and regal gifts
pour into Buckingham Palace.
Among them lovely crystal pieces,
including a delicately chased crystal bowl
from the President of the United States.
From friends and commonwealth,
tokens of esteem and good wishes by the hundreds
are acknowledged individually by Elizabeth
with a simple sincerity of any well-bred young woman
who punctiliously observes the amenities,
despite the tremendous demands upon her time.
This picnic camper from Sister Margaret,
is covered with alligator skin.
The Swiss watchmakers send one of their finest.
From Burma and Bombay, to Regent Street in London,
jewels from governments and family
have been showered on the bride.
- Well, when Elizabeth and Phillip got engaged
they decided that because London was ravished by war
and a lot of the buildings were absolutely rubble,
and, and there was, you know,
there was unemployment, there was rationing,
it was in a really bad place.
The King thought, well, let's have a very quiet wedding
at St. George's chapel, Windsor.
No pomp, no ceremony, will just be very private.
But then the government surprisingly said, no, no, no
we need to lift the people's spirits.
Let's have a beautiful royal wedding that everybody can see.
So that is what ended up happening
and, and it was televised
and eventually the, the television got to America.
So it was, it became a global affair
and it did lift people's spirits in London, hugely,
to see this beautiful young couple married.
No one had seen anything like that for the years of the war.
- Elizabeth and Phillip were married
on 20 November, 1947 at Westminster Abbey.
They received 2,500 wedding gifts from around the world.
Because Britain had not yet completely recovered
from the devastation of the war,
Elizabeth required ration coupons to buy the material
for her gown, which was designed by Norman Hartnell.
In post-war Britain, it was not acceptable
for Phillip's German relations,
including his three surviving sisters,
to be invited to the wedding.
- In England,
the man doesn't take the wife's title.
The woman takes her husband's.
So when Princess Elizabeth became Queen,
he didn't become King because that was her title
and it didn't pass to him.
But conversely, when the Queen Mother
became Queen, she took her husband's title.
So she was married to King George VI
and she was Queen Elizabeth because she took his title,
but it doesn't work the other way round.
Well, from Prince Phillip's perspective,
this is someone that had had to leave their country,
they didn't have a home of their own,
all his sisters were married to German aristocracy
and lived in enormous castles and there's Phillip,
knew living off the goodwill of his relations.
So I think that the idea of marrying a princess
that, that was going to inherit so much,
must've been very attractive
and he was pushed by his uncle, Louis Mountbatten,
who was the great king maker
and he really pushed Phillip
into kind of
maintaining a relationship with Princess Elizabeth,
who she was completely smitten with him from the age of 13
and I think she started right.
She wrote to him to say, you know,
thank you for entertaining us at Dartmouth
and I suppose she gradually, gradually kept up.
Then of course, during the, during the time
when he was on leave, on shore leave,
he, he often went to stay at Windsor Castle
and that's when their relationship you know,
became more serious
and eventually, eventually he proposed to her at Balmoral.
- And now the great hour arrives.
as the Queen and Princess Margaret Rose
leave Buckingham Palace for the ceremony
at Westminster Abbey.
And Prince Philip, with split-second timing,
also departs for the great rendezvous.
The royal standard waves over a truly royal occasion,
as the state coach, with Elizabeth and the King,
is escorted to Westminster Abbey
by the Household of Cavalry guards, a sovereign's escort.
Pomp, pageantry and splendor are revived for this day
in austerity-ridden London,
a day which the world shares with Britain.
This is the moment for which the teeming millions
have been waiting for months.
A deep-throated roar swells in volume
as cheering thousands greet the Princess.
The drabness of the day is forgotten.
Here at Westminster Abbey,
scene of splendor on great occasions
through its 900 years of British history,
the royal coach arrives on the great west door
to whose portals the mighty old England have passed.
It is a radiant bride to be,
the loveliest the old abbey has ever looked upon.
Here at Britain's historic shrine,
where all the kings have been crowned,
her Royal Highness the Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary
and His Royal Highness Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh,
are wed in the same ceremony that has united English couples
from village to palace for centuries.
Here they plight their troth.
In the proud words of King George,
our daughter has married the man she loves.
Elizabeth and Philip take their places
on history's pages to the stirring strings of Mendelssohn,
they march as man and wife toward the west door
amidst nearly 3,000 invited spectators.
It is a deeply moving occasion
and yet a supremely happy one
for the King and Queen as well, as the Queen Mother.
The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester and Duchess of Kent
are followed by the royal couple of Holland.
Lord and Lady Mountbatten follow
and in the train are members of all
the remaining royal households of Europe.
- Elizabeth gave birth to her first child,
Prince Charles, on 14, November, 1948.
One month earlier the King had issued letters patent,
allowing her children to use the style and title
of a Royal Prince or Princess,
to which they otherwise would not have been entitled,
as their father was no longer a royal prince.
A second child, Princess Anne, was born in 1950.
- Her Royal Highness is the proud
and happy mother of a prince.
The salute is fired and in the monarch's home,
lies the infant boy who will one day be king.
On Saturday, the eminent gynecologist, Sir William Gilliat,
was called to the palace for the most responsible case
in even his career.
By his advice, sister HM Rowe was chosen midwife.
The whole country knew that the baby would soon be born.
All day on Sunday, people waited outside the palace
including phlegmatic pressmen,
with whom it is a point of honor to show no excitement.
And all day there was no announcement.
It was after 10 at night that those who waited,
and they were very many, heard the tremendous news,
a royal baby and a boy.
Radio gave no advantage to bosses at the palace.
The glad tidings went out everywhere.
- The BBC Home Service.
It has been announced officially from Buckingham palace
during the past hour, that her Royal Highness,
the Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh,
who has safely delivered of a prince at14 p.m. today
and that her Royal Highness and her son are both doing well.
- The press agencies were covering the world.
The miracles of modern communication span the globe.
Unto us a child is born and no ordinary child, a Prince.
For the moment, all other news took second place.
The morning newspapers went to press with one
of those rare warm stories that touch every heart.
Cable and radio brought thousands of messages
of congratulation from every corner of the Commonwealth.
The young Royal Mother,
herself a child but little more than yesterday,
lay at her parent's home, an infant prince at her side.
By custom, the home secretary was among the first informed.
When he arrived at the home office next morning,
the announcement hung outside.
Mr. Chuter Ede was not called to the palace.
No one feared, in this day and age,
that some other child would be foisted on the nation.
Privileged on this Royal occasion to drive through mob lots
into the park, were a King's troop of royal horse artillery.
It was their honor and proud duty
to fire the salute of 41 guns,
announcing the birth of a prince.
- Prince Philip loves babies and small children.
and he had, he was so happy
that his first born should be a son and heir
but he wanted his son to be an image of himself.
He wanted him to be macho and he wanted him to be sporty
and he wanted him to have a sort of very strong personality.
Well, Charles wasn't like that at all.
He was very timid.
He wasn't particularly sporty.
He, he, and he was a little awkward
and he wasn't really the son that Philip hoped he'd have.
So as Charles grew, their relationship was just didn't work.
Phillip would, you know, sort of bark orders at Charles
and Charles would cringe and be timid.
They just didn't rub along well together.
And then when it came to Charles's further education,
Phillip said, well, whatever, what was good enough for me
would be good enough for Charles
and he actually thought that Gordonstoun would be good
for Charles because it was up in the north of Scotland,
away from the press.
It was, you know, it was meant to be wonderful outdoor life
and, and, and, you know, great emphasis was placed
upon the training of the mind,
as well as the training of the brain.
And Phillip thought it would be perfect.
I think the Queen and the Queen Mother
probably thought that he would be,
being such a sensitive young man,
he probably would have been better to go to Eaton,
which was, you know, just across the bridge from Windsor
and he would be nearer his family,
but Phillip overruled that and he was sent to Gordonstoun.
Yes, Prince Phillip felt very aggrieved by the fact
that he wasn't able to give his own children his surname.
Now, Prince Phillip family name had been Battenberg
but it was changed because it was too Germanic.
It was changed from Battenberg to Mountbatten.
and Phillip wanted Mountbatten as the family name.
He wanted it to be the House of Mountbatten,
and when the royal circles, I think Queen Mary heard of it,
she said, no way is this going to be
the House of Mountbatten.
I not having Louis Mountbatten, you know,
attach his name to, to the royal, immediate royal family.
So it became the House of Windsor
and Phillip was very, very hurt.
So later on, it became Mountbatten-Windsor,
so that he could also have his name included.
And the first of his children,
which was when Princess Anne married,
on the marital register, it does say Mountbatten-Windsor.
- New joy has come to the royal family
in the birth to Princess Elizabeth at Carrow's House
of a second son.
But of course the joy is not restricted to the royal family
and messages of congratulations from all over the world
have been pouring into the Princess's home
ever since the news became known.
The early years of marriage have set the seal
on the happiness of the Princess and her husband.
The blessing of children has come not only
to enrich their lives but also to establish securely,
the line of succession.
In Prince Charles, the public has acquired a new
popular subject of interest,
of whom some delightful pictures have been taken.
We should like to see more of him, but the insatiable demand
of the public has had to bow to the Princess's very proper
determination that her son shall not be spoilt by publicity.
The public would be no less curious
to see the first pictures of his brother
to compare the likenesses and note the differences.
To Sir William Gilliat, the great gynecologist,
fell the medical responsibility of seeing
the new prince safety into the world.
The nurse was Ms. Helen Rowe.
Everything possible to ensure the safety and health
of mother and son was naturally done,
but there must always be anxiety.
That is now over and the nation's rejoicing
is marked by salute of guns.
This is fired in Hyde park by the Royal Horse Artillery
in full dress.
- Prince Phillip was stationed in Malta
on board, his, his ship and so the Queen
would visit him every few months
and Prince Charles, it was was their first child,
was left behind.
And then the Queen was able to actually sort of
for the first time and probably the only time in her life,
be like any other housewife.
It wasn't quite the same, but she was able to go shopping.
She was able to have her hair done.
She was able to drive around the island
and they all went to sort of like naval dances
and they just sort of joined in with the,
the life of the other, other young naval officers
and their wives
and for her, it was just a huge pleasure
and that's why she has such a fondness for Malta.
Well, I think the reason that the Queen is referred to
by some historians as the unlikely queen,
is that you know, she wasn't prepared to be queen.
She was married in 1947
and she expected to have a proper long-ish
married life before her father you know,
died but he died quite suddenly.
So she was an unlikely queen and also she wasn't designated
to be queen because her uncle,
who became Edward VIII very briefly,
abdicated and put Elizabeth
directly in the line of succession.
- During 1951, George VI's health declined
and Elizabeth frequently stood in for him at public events.
When she toured Canada and visited President Harry S. Truman
in Washington, D.C. in October, 1951,
her private secretary Martin Charteris
carried a draft excession declaration
in case the King died while she was on tour.
- What happened was, the Princess Elizabeth
and Prince Philip were standing in for the King and Queen
and they started a big Commonwealth Tour
in Kenya, as it was called in those days.
And the people of Kenya wanted them to be there
and they'd given them a lodge for their wedding present.
And the sort of joy for them was that they were going
to visit this game reserve and there was a little place
called Tree Tops, which was overlooking as salt lake lick.
So you could really see the animals.
You know, this is, this is a 1952,
so the whole of, of Kenya was teaming with game
and they spent the night up there
and actually it was during the night,
unbeknownst to the Princess that she became Queen.
So they went, they, they left the game viewing,
went back to Sagana Lodge and had a little sleep,
because they'd been up all night.
When the news came across
to Prince Phillip's private secretary, Mike Parker,
that the King had died and he thought that he, he, he, he
eventually had one of those little radios
and he fiddled with it and eventually,
heard the sounds of Big Ben
and he knew that the news was true
and it was his duty to tell Prince Phillip,
which was probably, he says later,
the most difficult thing he'd ever had to do in his life.
So he went to Prince Phillip and told him the news
that his wife, Prince Phillip's wife, was Queen.
So Prince Phillip was in such shock,
he just put a newspaper over his face
and let the news just absorb
and then he got up
and he went and got the Princess out of her bedroom
where she was resting and took her down to the lake
at the bottom of the garden and the lady in waiting
tells a wonderful story.
She watched the walk up and down, up and down
and she knew that he was telling her
and when they walked back into the lodge,
she wanted, she was putting her arms around the Princess,
when she thought my goodness but she's Queen
and dropped into a curtsy.
And then of course, they had to make their way back
to England as quickly as possible.
But by the time they arrived back at London airport,
she came down the steps,
beautifully dressed in her black clothes
and Prince Philip waited on the steps
until she was at the bottom
and she greeted her prime minister.
And that's how it was going to be from then on.
Well, I think Prince Philip never envisaged
that his young princess would become queen so quickly.
They thought they had years ahead of them.
So I think it was very difficult when suddenly
his wife became queen and he was demoted, if you like,
to forever walk two steps behind.
And he was treated very badly
by the stuffy old courtiers at the palace.
And, you know, they,
they thought he was an interloper and he was far too German
and although he was a Greek Prince, you know,
he had a lot of German blood
so they just called him and he just thought he was German
and so it was very, very difficult for him.
Well, Prince Phillip had been in the Royal Navy.
He was still in the Royal Navy when he, when he married.
So he was used to routine and regulations of royal life.
But what he wasn't used to was the way
the courtiers treated him because they saw him
as a foreigner and an interloper
and probably someone that wouldn't be faithful to his wife.
So they didn't like him at all
and they made it very plain that they didn't like him.
So he had a very, very difficult time,
very difficult indeed and also,
eventually had to be two steps behind his wife.
In the beginning, they had a very,
very happy marriage, very happy marriage.
They, they had Clarence House as their marital home
and they also had a country house,
which they rented, Windlesham Manor.
So they had it all at the beginning
but it was for such a short time.
I think the day-to-day life of the monarch
is very regimented.
I mean, she, she would be woken, that's about30.
She would have her dresser would come in with a cup of tea
and some biscuits for the dogs.
You know, her clothes would be laid out.
She would be, she would dress, have breakfast and then read
read the newspapers and listen to the radio
and then her day would start.
And her private secretary would bring her important letters
to look at and sign.
And then every 20 minutes during the day
there is an appointment.
So it, and it's the same every day during the working week.
So it is a very regimented life.
That at the time of the Golden Jubilee,
a lot of us press were invited to a reception
at Windsor Castle and to meet the Queen and Prince Phillip.
The sort of thing that Prince Phillip really hates
and I sort of was quite near the front of the fray
if you like, and I, I thought, well,
I've got to say something.
So I said to Prince Phillip,
"What are you looking forward to most about the Jubilee?"
and he turned to me and he said, "When it's over."
I'll never forget that.
- At Guildhall, the load mayor of London,
Sir Edmund Stockdale, led the city's tribute
to the Royal travelers,
the Duke of Gloucester,
who toured Nigeria with the Duchess,
Princess Alexandra who toured Australia
and Prince Phillip, a worldwide traveler,
who replied for the royal guests.
- Lord mayor, I dare say you frequently had the experience
of killing two birds with one shot.
But I wonder how many lord mayors have had the experience
of killing by kindness,
four Royal Highnesses at one banquet.
So it is of course, a matter of great regret to us all,
that the queen cannot be present today.
But as you realize, she has other matters to attend to.
However, I knew that she will be delighted
to receive your very charming and thoughtful message
at this particular moment.
- First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself.
She was an exceptional and gifted human being.
In good times and bad,
she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh,
nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness.
I admired and respected her,
for her energy and commitment to others
and especially for her devotion to her two boys.
This week at Balmoral, we have all been trying
to help William and Harry come to terms
with the devastating loss that they
and the rest of us have suffered.
No one who knew Diana will ever forget her.
Millions of others who never met her
but felt they knew her will remember her.
I, for one, believe there are lessons to be drawn
from her life and from the extraordinary
and moving reaction to her death.
- I think that the death of Princess Diana
was the biggest crisis of the Queen's reign
and probably something that historically,
she will be judged by and I think
despite the film, "The Queen" and despite "The Crown",
people still think the Queen handled it badly
and didn't seem to understand what
her subjects were feeling and thinking.
But I think the Queen didn't understand
because they traditionally,
the royal family when there is a death
and there've been many, many,
they mourn quietly amongst themselves.
and the Queen thought because of William and Harry
it would be utter cruelty to expose them to crowds
of whaling people and that they must be kept at Balmoral
but it actually was wrong, as it, as it turned out
but she remedied the situation.
But I think it will still be seen as probably
one of the disasters of her reign.
Prince Phillip's relationship with princess,
with the Princess of Wales, was really interesting
because when she first came on the scene,
she was terrified, absolutely terrified
and he kind of, you know, he looked out for it
because he knew what it was like
to be a stranger amongst his family
and he would sort of say you know, say, you know,
suggest to the Queen that she sat next to him at the,
you know the black tie dinners at Balmoral
and that and that he could look after her.
But in fact, she was absolutely tongue tied
when she was next to him because he was funnier and wittier.
But eventually she sort of got to know him
and he was very supportive of her
during the marital difficulties and he wrote her a series
of very constructive letters,
trying to help her and pointing out various things,
like you know, the monarchy is not a popularity contest,
which is something he could have said to Megan much later.
It's really not.
It's not about the individual.
It's about all of us working together for the same end,
which is the good of the monarchy.
And he wrote to her a lot
and these letters came to light during the inquest
when Mohammed Fayed accused Prince Phillip
of possibly you know, trying to, to kill Diana,
to get rid of her.
And then so, so reluctantly, these letters were produced
but sadly, later on, Diana and Philip fell out massively
and she came to really dislike him.
And we also know that that is completely true
because again, Joanne, the inquest, one of her friends
Roberta Dvorak,
said under oath, you know,
that he was in an airport with Diana and she pointed
to something referring to Prince Phillip and said,
"I hate him, I absolutely hate him."
And she told me that she hated him too
and that he used to shout at his staff.
and she said, "I tell my boys, I never want anyone to shout
at their staff like their grandfather did."
So, but Diana was like that, you know, she loved people
then she hated them.
And at the time, you know, at the last months of her life
although she didn't know obviously,
but she she really disliked Prince Phillip intensely.
- I'm naturally somewhat biased,
but I think our children have done rather well
under very different and difficult
and demanding circumstances.
I think, I hope we can be forgiven
for feeling rather proud of them
and I'm also encouraged to see what a good start
the next generation is making.
I think that the main lesson that we've learned
is that tolerance is the one essential ingredient
of any happy marriage.
It may not be quite so important when things are going well
but it is absolutely vital when things get difficult
and you can take it from me
that the queen has the quality of tolerance in abundance.
- I think many people have asked the Queen
and the asked Prince Phillip
what is the secret of their relationship
and the Queen has spoken out on a few occasions
and she said patience,
sense of humor and she had said, famously, of course,
that Prince Phillip had simply been her rock
and her stay over the years.
And he had, he'd always been there to support her
although he never involved himself
in constitutional affairs, he was there as a sounding board.
He was someone to listen and someone who would be
on her side or would give her a criticism,
which of course, nobody else really could.
- A humble and hearty thanks to all those in Britain
and around the world who have welcomed us and sustained us
and our family in the good times and the bad
so unstintingly over many years.
This has given us strength.
Most recently, during the sad days after the tragedy
of Diana's death,
it is you, if I may now speak
to all of you directly who have seen us through
and helped us to make our duty fun.
We are deeply grateful to you, each and everyone.
Yesterday, I listened as Prince Phillip spoke
at the Guildhall and I then proposed our host's health.
Today, the roles are reversed.
All too often I fear Prince Phillip
has had to listen to me speaking.
Frequently, we have discussed my intended speech beforehand
and as you will imagine,
his views have been expressed in a forthright manner.
He is someone who doesn't take easily to compliments
but he has quite simply been my strength
and stay all these years.
And I, and his whole family
and this and many other countries,
owe him a debt of greater than he would ever claim
or we shall ever know.
- Well, many people have asked Prince Phillip,
how he wants to be remembered and he says,
typically he says,
"Well, I won't be around so I don't care, do I?"
But I think, I hope he will be remembered
for what he's done for conservation
and what he's done for the sciences.
I think he'll be remembered for his Duke of Edinburgh Award
because it bears his name
and I think he will also be remembered for his gaffes,
which is a bit of a shame.
But I think when people think of Prince Phillip,
they think of, oh, Phillip and the ladies
and Phillip and his politically incorrect remarks
and sometimes those things stick.
- You're now seeing the world's most experienced plucker.
- But Prince Phillip has never been a politically correct.
He doesn't care what he says or to whom.
He doesn't mean to be rude.
Basically, he he's known for his gaffes,
which is what we call them in the UK
and they are usually some very wittier sides,
which he says to kind of break the ice
and to make people feel a bit more relaxed,
but they don't always come up, out like that.
Sometimes they sound incredibly rude.
And so he's become known as this, for you know,
someone who could really put his foot in it
but he actually does it to try
and keep the moment light-hearted
because his endless role engagements you know,
can be very, very tedious.
And Prince Phillip has a very quick mind
and a very quick wit, but it can be cruel.
I think well, Prince Philip doesn't suffer fools
and if he thinks someone's asking an idiotic question or,
he just walks away or is rude.
But you know, when you think how many years
he's had to listen to that and also he feels that probably
people aren't that interested in him.
They're interested in who he is
and I think that's always irritated him.
So I think that he just
shows it, where other people wouldn't show it.
And certainly, I mean, I've been on the receiving end
of some of his rudeness on many occasions
and he does just walk away, which is very disconcerting
but that's what he does.
Prince Phillip is an icon now.
I mean and we know he's going to probably say
something outrageous and he can get away with it.
So I think people love it, that he will actually say
a lot of the things that they are thinking,
but certainly you know, we would never dare to say
because it's, you know it's too difficult
to voice your opinions too loudly
at this present moment in time,
but let Prince Phillip do it.
I think we rather miss his acerbic remarks.
- I think Prince William is a lot more sensitive
than people give him credit for
and he is sentimental,
but he's learnt through the years to bury his emotions
so carefully.
Like you never see him and the Queen
being tactile in public.
In fact, you very, very seldom see Prince Phillip
being tactile to anyone.
I remember the day of Diana's funeral,
when the coffin went under Admiralty Arch,
he put his arm around Prince William and occasionally,
I think I've seen him with his arm around Prince Edward,
but you really don't see that.
So I think it's, it's buried very deep
and also there is the public persona
and the private persona.
Apart from flying, which he loved,
he took up polo, especially when he was in Malta
and he, like everything that Prince Phillip does,
he wanted to be the best.
So he practiced polo
and he actually became very good for an amateur.
And he played polo for many, many years.
And then he was forced to give it up
because he had terrible arthritis in his hands
and he tried every crackpot remedy to try, you know,
to get rid of the arthritis, but in the end,
he had to give up polo and he took up carriage driving
and he completely turned the sport of carriage driving
around and he made new rules and he actually made it
into an international sporting event.
So he did, losing him to polo
was really very much a gain of carriage driving.
So that's probably what he's going to be remembered for
because you know,
those are the most recent pictures we have of him.
He still drives, you know, his team of fell ponies
around Sandringham and Windsor until very recently.
- Last couple of times that I've seen him
he's absolutely ramrod back, hand behind his back,
of course, dressed immaculately.
I mean, he has about it to help him with those things
of course, but he, he looks amazing and,
you know until quite recently, of course,
was still going out in all winds and weather,
carriage driving, which was his great passion.
And so, you know he has always kept extremely fit
over the years.
He's a great example.
It's very much in character for Prince Charles
to pay a visit to somebody who's in a hospital
and not least, his father.
On the other hand, it's very unlike the Duke of Edinburgh
to receive visitors because by and large,
he doesn't like any fuss and he likes to stay,
stay put and read a book.
But having said that, it's very nice that Prince Charles
has gone to see him.
He's been in there for a few days.
He's clearly going to be in there
for a few days more,
so nothing nicer than to see his son
on a Saturday afternoon.
- He's a no nonsense sort of man.
I think he would be embarrassed by the fuss
and would not want it.
I'm sure he's in good spirits.
He's always in good spirits.
- Good.
Well, back to work.