(Brand new to your page here, loving it 10/10) Speaking of how terrible the crown is they needed to put some more respect on princess Alice’s name in I believe season 3. The constant referring to her illness (poorly depicted might I add) is a disservice to how much of a bad ass she was regardless of any illness she had. People need to read about her. I’m also glad she got to spend her final days at Buckingham palace.
- Alice's last years were spent with her son at Buckingham Palace. Before her death in 1969, she wrote him a letter: “Dearest Philip, be brave, and remember I will never leave you, and you will always find me when you need me most.” - A Vanity fair article containing her last letter to Prince Philip that absolutely rips my heart out.
Some more heartwarming tidbits about princess Alice’s relationship with Prince Philip, the queen and their children:
Apparently when Alice was staying with them in the end The queen was welcoming, patient and marvelous with her when she was being difficult and also “felt responsible for her” per lady Pamela hicks a lady in waiting. Philip when asked about his childhood has never, not once talked badly about either of his parents and the three women he had pictures of in his study was the queen, princess Anne, and his mom. She was also the OG creator of the nickname “philibet” for Philip and The queen. Charles and Anne called her “yaya” the Greek name for grandma which I think is cute.
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It's fairly well-established at this point that Peter Morgan has no idea what he's talking about, and has used tabloids as his "research."
While you'll get no argument from me on this, I respectfully request that royal discussion be kept to Prince Philip, as I'm not a royal watcher and my area of interest/expertise is literally just him. I am not a good source of help or information about anyone else in the family (and I don't want you to waste your time).
22 February 1991
The Queen and Prince Philip at Port Regis School to open a new gymnastics hall, and to visit their grandchildren Peter and Zara Phillips, children of Princess Anne, in Shaftesbury, Dorset.
1973
Queen Elizabeth II opening the Michael Faraday Laboratory Museum, London. The Queen uses 'remote control', the original iron ring from 1831 used by Faraday himself, watched by the Duke of Edinburgh.
13 October 1949
Daily Mail: In Park-Lane, London's late sightseers took up position to watch the arrival at the Dorchester of Princess Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth ii) and Prince Philip for the dinner of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Said the Duke proposing the health of the college:
"I am proposing this toast not entirely on my own behalf but on behalf of my wife who has benefitted from this college rather more than I have."
"It didn’t affect her at all. She never for a moment thought the cheering was for her personally. It’s for the position she holds – it’s for the role she fulfils, it’s because she’s Queen. That’s all. She knows that. Her head hasn’t been turned by being Queen – not at all. She’s quite normal."
— Prince Philip remarked on the Queen being cheered by millions
Extracted from Elizabeth: An Intimate Portrait, by Gyles Brandreth