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- The Coronation in 1953 appeared to be a glittering triumph for the House of Windsor. But behind the scenes there was a three-cornered story of jealousy and rivalry at the highest level.
On one side Prince Philip was at odds with the Queen Mother over his desire to modernise the monarchy. On the other the old Queen was jealous of her daughter's sudden rise to power. The Coronation was a critical year for the young Queen Elizabeth. She was preparing to undergo the most ancient and important royal ritual, but the two people closest to her, the Queen Mother and Prince Philip had very different ideas about how it should be handled. Philip, the dashing but dangerously modern consort, was anxious that the Coronation should not be simply a stuffy replay of previous reigns. He wanted 'some features relevant to the world today'. But he was fiercely resisted by the Queen Mother and by Princess Mary, who referred to Philip as 'the Hun'.
The new Queen was caught in the middle. In Coronation Coup, we learn that Mountbatten, who had engineered the marriage between Philip and Elizabeth wanted the family name changed to Windsor-Mountbatten after her accession. Also, while the new Queen largely sided with her mother over arrangements for the Coronation, she backed Philip over perhaps the most important decision to televise the ceremony inside Westminster Abbey. In doing so she set a precedent for television to be given access to the most intimate rituals.
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The Queen mother was so kindly welcomed into the royal family but didn't extend that kindness to both Prince Philip and Princess Diana..
Diana was never Princess Diana. She was Lady Diana Spencer before her marriage, then HRH Diana, Princess of Wales, and after her divorce, Diana, Princess of Wales with no royal style. She was never a Princess in her own right so never Princess Diana. Prince Philip was a Prince of Greece and Denmark until just prior to his 1947 wedding. King George VI made him Duke of Edinburgh just prior to his wedding whereas he would have otherwise been Lt Philip Mountbatten, R.N. Only in 1957, did HM The Queen, his wife, make him a Prince again, as a Prince of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Of course, according to the former King of Greece (King of The Hellenes), there was no house law of Prince Philip's birth dynasty (Oldenburg, otherwise Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksbürg) for Prince Philip to renounce his royal title and style, so, by that account, Prince Philip never renounced his birthright effectively. This is a moot point, especially since the Greeks abolished their Throne and effectively deposed (and outlawed) their Royal House in 1974.
@@uptoncriddington6939 Much applause! You have described the situation expertly. (There is a world of difference between the wasted emotion of "happy lies" and the stoically neutral accuracy of truth.)
There is a quote I love (apologies if I've said it before). Marilyn vos Savant was asked, "What is the most important concept and what makes it so?" She answered, "Truth; because there isn't a darn thing you can do about it."
That is why facts are comforting in the long run. Lies can be manipulated, so they offer no real assurances of anything, but can be stretched in all directions.
No one could ever misinterpret your words.
@@cjosborne9430 Thank you kindly. I have not read the quote before, and it is one I shall endeavour to remember. Milles remerciements.
Meghan too
@@uptoncriddington6939 yup
The Queen Mother wasn't as "sweet" a person as she was made out to be and she could and did hold a grudge like no one else. She never forgave Edward VIII and Wallace Simpson but LOVED being the Queen. She loved it so much they had a time getting her out of Buckingham Palace. She thought she could control the monarchy through her daughter. Much to the Queen Mothers' displeasure that didn't happen. She referred to Phillip as "the hun". I guess she forgot that her husband the King and her mother and father-in-law were all German. The only person she disliked more than Philip and also completely distrusted was his Uncle, "Dickie" Mountbatten. He's also the reason that she pushed the idea of Charles marrying Diana because Dickie wanted Charles to marry his grandaughter Amanda Knatchbull. The Queen Mother was having none of that. She was supposed to help get Diana acclimated and ready for all the protocol before the wedding while Diana was in Clarence House but, she didn't. Diana said, "she ignored me." She also drank A LOT and Queen Elizabeth was always having to cover her mother's overdrafts at Coutts, the Royals' Bank.
Finally, someone who actually knows and sees the true face of The Queen Mother as she was. With just a little bit of research people could easily learn this about her, but they never do. Thank you for sharing. 😊
Yes, that was a great summary of her. I have watched her, on TV when they would show the royal family. She constantly tried to walk ahead of, or at least beside, Queen Elizabeth. It made me so angry when they showed them on the balcony. She always had that fake gracious look on her face, and to me, she really thought she was above Elizabeth. I think she was very bitter to have to step back. She always tried to outdo Elizabeth, in the way she dressed and her jewels. And yes, I agree about her treatment of Diana. They had Diana live with her, to be guided. She did ignore her, or was terribly rude to her. I truly could not stand watching the way she always tried to out do Elizabeth.
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Yes, the Queen Mother was a greedy hog, selfish and controlling. I wonder if she was a narcissist. Too bad she lived so long to plague Prince Phillip almost his entire life.
She spent a lot of money and if she liked something in your house..she took it. Maybe she was a spoilt dumpy not so pretty woman....
The nun shown behind the Queen Mother during the coronation ceremony is Prince Philip's mother. She became a Greek Orthodox nun later in her life.
I believe She was her son GREATEST Prayer Warrior ☝️☝️🎖👊
Philip mother walk away from the royal family she want to see JESUS so she become a nun
@@leinam4164 I think it's actually harder to see Jesus with those things they wear over their heads.
His mother's life is SO interesting. Honestly, I think those old bland Oxbridge boys were hating on him for having a cool background and the royal pedigree. The ladies always go for the "exotic" attractive guys LOL
@Love the Beach No, she was congenitally deaf -- not blind.
What do those people mean by "who was that Prince namend Philip"?! They clearly knew who he was: a Prince of Greece and Denmark, descending from Tsars and Kings on his fathers side, a direct descendant of Saint Elizabeth of Thuringia and a great-great grandchild of Queen Victoria on his mother's who was herself born in the Queen's very presence at Windsor Castle. He is more royal than the Queen I should think!
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Actually she came from the Stuarts of Scotland
@@candicechristian7344 Doesn't mean anything. I'm descended form the Dukes of Northumberland. My great great grandmother was a legitimate Percy, but it means absolutely nothing.
Queen Elizabeth's father, King George VI, was descended from German royalty (Queen Victoria and Prince Albert). Her mother was descended from a Scottish earl. And an earl is considered small potatoes in British royalty.
Sadly the Queen’s mother didn’t know how to fade into the background like she should have. For someone who was such a traditionalist she sure didn’t practice what she preached.
Robert Martin Jr ....Absolutely right. I don't know why so many people gush over her. She was a spendthrift who was very fond of the bottle.
The Queen Mother was the first commoner to be consort to the monarch in modern times. She was Nouveau Royal.
Frank Snapp .....Yes. At other people's expense.
She also connived, manipulated, and conspired to have Edward VIII dethroned. She was jealous, and wanted power for herself. She was always an absolutely horrific, conniving, and cold woman.
@@justanotherhappyhumanist8832 she sounds great tbh.
They speak of Prince Phillip like he comes from a family of pig farmers. He and the Queen are 3rd cousins.
The family of pig farmers probably has more genetic diversity going for it.
Taylor Libby 🤣🤣
Rachel Clark thank you! They didn’t cover it ! They shared a great great grandmother! Very common in royal families
He descended from Queen Victoria and King Christian IX both of the most important royals of Europe.
Yes it’s almost insulting how they talk about him . His mother was born in the very palace they live in. They should really do a movie on his mother . She went through so much due to her mother.
Yes, I must say a man who stands beside a wife and a wife who stands beside a husband is a cherished gift to the family. And an example that married life is possible.
Yes, it wasn't always easy for either of them. It was so sad when he fooled around on her, but they did truly love and support each other. They stayed together for life, through it all.
Yes.
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@@dianneys4887 evidence that he fooled around?
As an American, I think televising the Coronation actually brought Queen Elisabeth closer to her ordinary, everyday people throughout the Commonwealth. Her citizens could put an actual face and voice to her name, not just a portrait on currency, stamp, and coin. The Queen and Prince Philip represented the new post-WWII world where the different social classes would mix, and not be separated as they were pre-WWII. This would be a major shift in thinking and acting and reacting with each other, and it was a shift the Old Guard didn't want to make.
The queen mother had a very false concept of her actual importance. By marriage and hence by birth she certainly had a place in the royal family but, as Elizabeth ascended the throne she really should have stepped back. I feel for Phillip.
I think Philip was nearly always by the side of the Queen on her public appearances e.g. when opening Parliament each year. He was a great support to the Queen behind the scenes and in the family
The Queen Mother was also a huge support to the Queen. They spoke frequently
That brash 'young' naval officer is now the oldest living member of the Royal Family and the third oldest ever.
HMMM Was the oldest his former nemesis?
@@larrygrimaldi1400 I hardly think she was his nemesis. That's putting it too strongly.
AN IDIOT
@@larrygrimaldi1400 No😂. Actually Prince Philip has no desire to live to 100. Neither did Princess Alice the longest lived member of the British Royal Family
James Kiely Princess Alice, Phillips mother? Check out my story on her and Freud on Medium. Remarkable woman! :link.medium.com/JY6qVS8349
His mother was born in buckingham palace... did they really forget who he is?
I believe it was actually Windsor Castle where Princess Alice of Battenberg was born. But still I agree!
His family was all displaced, he had no status or money. So they looked down upon him .not to mention, his nazi part of the family. Only reason he got to where he did, was thanks to mountbatten and his ambition.
The story of his mum is unbelievable, she deserves a movie, about her life,.....
Here is a short documentary on her if anyone is interested. czcams.com/video/rwIpxNHVHpk/video.html
Michelle Elmore, It was also forgotten that PP's grandmother was QV.. if they had done their homework they would have found that PP should not have had to give up his " Prince of Denmark and Greece". he is in some ways more royal than the Windsor's, who are mostly German
Philip was a wonderful consort for Elizabeth tall handsome and a Royal himself.I can see she was very well pleased to have him beside her all those years.
Wonderful? Are you serious? He cheated on her. This is well documented.
He wasn't that tall. That's how it looks in the photos
Prince philip so handsome...that not even one of his sons inherited his gorgeous face...
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Right?? I think Prince William looks a little like his grandfather, barring all of the features he inherited from Diana.
Harry looks a bit like him
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"A continuation of her own [reign]?" "her own dynasty?" Seriously? The Queen Mother was not the monarch. She didn't reign, and it wasn't HER dynasty.
She probably thought of it as hers, maybe she earned it from her part of saving the nation from Wally Simpson becoming Queen.
@@larrygrimaldi1400 For that alone, I'd let her faults be pardoned. Nobody is perfect, after all.
S R Elizabeth was the power behind the throne. She was much more strong willed, clever and charming than her husband...a dynamo!
Since 1688 english or british kings and queens do not reign. They are subject to the power of the parliament and its chosen rulers. They are puppets of the ruling class..
You give power to the "small people" and it went straight to their heads.
Elizabeth did not become Queen in June 1953, she became queen on the 6th February 1952, It was her coronation that took place in June 1953 . but she was queen before that
Who care what year she took the reptile throne of lies
@@chinhantsai8174 do.you have any proof that she is a reptile or do you just believe every crackpot theory the Internet throws up
What is the purpose of the coronation?
@@TheBohemianStyle the coronation is kinda like a formal confirmation of the monarchs authority before God
Carl the Adopted Yorkshireman Why was it delayed a year later? Is that part of the rules?
His charm never frays until the final days of his life. A truly gorgeous prince. Rest-In-Peace, Your Royal Highness.
Rest in peace
Prince Philip
King Philip was a very handsom e guy. I like him
Phillip's family tree is much more impressive than the Queen Mother one. Who did she think she was?
He wasn't proposing marriage to the queen mum. He had to be right for Elizabeth.
Depends on what impresses you. Continental royalty or Scottish and English peerage and gentry. Both have their charms. Then there are the odd tales of a monstrous heir hidden at Glamis and the plumber who came to relead the roof and left his daughter behind. In Philip's lineage there is the morganatic marriage to the daughter of a Polish minister of war. All grist for the genealogist's and historian's mill.
She was the Queen, then the Queen Mum. Why? Who do you think she was? Oh, and until 1947 she was Empress of India too.
@@uptoncriddington6939 Well it only matters whether they were impressed and they clearly weren't at all. They were royals in name only. I happen to think it was the best they could ever hope for because which other prince would have been content playing mister queen?
@@uptoncriddington6939 Queen mum in her own mind. Nobody is royal!
The Queen Mother was a traditionalist until it came to the issue of her stepping aside.
She wouldn’t have traditionally stepped aside from anything lol
@@-MaryPoppins- Ah, your personal opinion trumps what the experts in this video said.
Isn't that the truth and Queen Mary was kleptomaniac and a snob. She was originally supposed to marry the heir to the throne and he died and then Prince Albert married her. I don't know why but maybe they ended up liking each other after all or who knows because I don't think she was a very kind person. All of their children were raised Like they were in boot camp. The oldest, David & former King Edward the 8th, had the better deal with anyone in the family. Albert married Mary when he took the throne from his father King Edward the 7th & he went by George V. he Reign for quite a long time. Prince Albert took the name King George VI and that right there shows how two spares became the heir. That was very very common in centuries prior to the 20th century because of the lack of antibiotics and vaccines. Queen Mother Elizabeth became quite snobby being born a commoner and it would seem that she would be modest but yet be able to get a royal image at the same time. Some people don't handle duplicity well.
Elizabeth II has always been in the middle of something going on and I feel bad for her sometimes because she's been Queen for 70 years almost and she's always have to be right in the middle of something because she's the monarch. Prince Philip is a trooper and I love his sense of humor and when he was younger everything he did just cracks me up and he was so honest and blunt to the point of just being funny and he wasn't trying to be. now that Queen Elizabeth is 94 I don't know what she does except probably some conversing and maybe let her riding but Charles is doing his work and most of her work. he's probably thinking now in his seventies like why couldn't I have had to do this 20 years ago when I was younger and had the stamina? that's a lot of work for somebody that probably around 72 or so.
I agree because I would have been far more upset about losing my husband then trying to keep this huge Palace that really was not hers because she was only a consort.
@@-MaryPoppins- She was clever enough to make sure her new title had the word Queen in it twice.
RIP HRH Prince Phillips. He deserved to have his life legacy televised on all BBC channels. He brought so many changes to the royal family. Transitioning from royal traditions to the 20th century modern life. Especially allowing the media BBC to record the Queens coronation. UK and all Commonwealth Nations will surely miss him😢❤.
The queen mother was shady! Prince Phillip was a real prince by blood the queen mother married into it.
The queen mother had royal blood in her from the old kings of Scotland
The old bag was crafty n manipulative
The Late Prince Phillip was the Late Queen's "Rock and Stay". The BRF were so fortunate to have him serve so dutifully his whole life. That's a wonderful video. The world was changing rapidly at that time and I think it was inevitable that the BRF would be required to "embrace" it.
I believe her majesty said strength and stay
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41:58 The lady behind The Queen Mother, to the left, is Princess Alice, the mother of Prince Philip. Look up the story of her life and I think you'll find it very interesting.
I thought she was institutionalized for mental illness. Right?
@Geria Wright God does not set people free from a mental institution a mental health specialist does that. Also she looked completely insane at her son's wedding.
@Geria Wright Forgive me.
I had read your first comment and was confirming it with the info on her life, and that of her relation, Saint Elizabeth. The Russian Royal family also shed their blood for Christ, not becoming Communists.
May they pray for us, and God: The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit help us.
@@katherinecross8059 I admire her for living as her true self,doing what others looked down on and doing it on her own terms
Oh , yes , i love Princess Alice , Prince Philip 's mother and i think that she was wonderful.
Philips Mother was a Princess, not like that Bowes Lyon...Princess Alice was a good Person, saveing Jews..a good Soul
Absolutely Princess Alice was definitely a unique royalty by blood and actions especially after having a tough life not like queen Elizabeth who used to live in indulgence and luxurious life such a great difference that's why she deliberately marginalised her.
Strange for a Nazi?
Joshua X read the book written by Lady Colin Campbell about the Queen Mother.In there the QM is claimed to be the daughter of the house cook .Thats why the Duke and Duchess of Windsor mockingly called her Cookie
@@micheler950 I've not heard that. I was told that the term came from the fact that she had pudgy , fat hands like a cook.
Mike Fay ....Alice herself was not a Nazi.
11:11 Philips' navy career was well established well before he married Elizabeth. He commanded two war ships during WWII. A significant milestone for a young naval officer.
Wow 🤔
@@realmsabovetheclouds3619 see
Yeah for Germany
@@madisun9094 actually for the uk
He didn't command them he served on board as a first leftenant I don't know any 20 something year old navy captain or commander
It seems that anyone who marries into the family can never be quite good enough. Very sad.
If it seems that way then you are sadly labouring under a misapprehension.
I mean the queen mother was good enough and she married in
@@samadams2575 It’s because she married in at the time not expecting to be Queen consort. Remember her husband was never supposed to be King. It was her brother in law who had the spotlight on who he would marry and no doubt regardless of whom he chose they would have never been good enough.
@@britjj5126 oh good point... I definitely don’t think Camilla is good enough to be queen lol. But that’s my opinion
@@britjj5126 but most people though Kate was good enough I believe
Wow! Two major errors in the first two minutes:
1. Princess Elizabeth became Queen immediately upon the death of her father, NOT at the coronation. "The King is dead, long live the Queen!"
2. The Queen Mother never, ever had a "reign."
Thank you for pointing this out. When I first heard those two errors, I said: "Say wha??" LOL
well though this is true , its just semantics , the queen was not officially queen till after the coronation and as for queen mother well , a person that marries the king becomes queen and there for does reign , even though they have no power and officially her husband reigns , by law it is a joint reign , but yup you are right
guessing with the name Love you know coz it was drummed in hey ? guessing you are a distant cousin too
@@jitaamesuluma9730 No, neither of those things are true. The monarch's reign does not depend on a coronation; Edward VIII never had a coronation, and many other monarchies in Europe have dispensed with them, but that does not invalidate their reigns. And no, there is no such thing as "joint reign" between sovereign and consort.
Kevin Love correct and correct.
She wasn't a princess at the coronation, She was Queen when her father died. The coronation is when she was crowned
Same as Queen Victoria she became Queen Victoria when King William IV died in 1837. Political Marriage in 1840 to her German first cousin.
She was a princess by birth.
She was born as a member of the the Royal family and besides her family was decended of the House of Hanover whose memebers are princes and princesses.
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She became Queen immediately on the death of her father. The Coronation is a religious confirmation of that event. Many people make this mistake. That is why we had a king Edward VIII. ...it’s just he was never crowned . He became King Edward immediately his father died. My father was his ADC so I speak with a little knowledge on this. !!
so correct the moment the king died she became the Queen. Now for Obama he asked could he be king of Prince William and William said no but you can be a queen any day!
Prince Philip I appreciate your undying support to the Queen and the Monarchy as well . May you have eternal rest with your creator Amen
Aluta continua
I love the illustrative language of the storytellers in this. Obviously the love and commitment that Prince Phillip and Queen Elizabeth had for each other was greater than any obstacle they faced. This speaks for how devoted they were to each other and their offspring.
Just like Harry and Meghan.
@@comfortibrahim3445 time will tell. You cannot compare a few years to over seven decades of marriage.
He was clearly the love of the Queen's life; she fell in love the moment she met him and never looked at another man after that.
@@jenniferbrewer5370yes! And at the age of 13! ❤
Except the Queen would not let her husband bestow his family name on his four children.
The Queen Mother deserved to become less important as she was never going to rule. I think Phillip is more of a Royal than most others honestly.
I have always liked Philip more than anyone else in the monarchy. The Queen Mother didn't want to give up her role and took it out on Philip.
@Theresa Nardino So she became a double queen! not bad;)
What a joke
Prince Philip had more Royal blood than the Queen mother
Maybe she didn't ready to give it up, but she should be happy for her daughter ❤️❤️
And Queen Mary also refused to leave Buckingham Palace after the death of King George V! Edward VIII had her underfoot while his relationship with Wallis Simpson was going nowhere and advice from Queen Mary all the time. She finally agreed to go back to Marlborough House where she and George lived before he became King. Queen Alexandra had refused to move from the Palace also when Edward VII died. It seemed to be an ongoing problem getting the widow to vacate Buckingham Palace.
Nobody “elbowed” the Queen Mother aside. The King died. She was NOT the successor. Her daughter was. Phillip was a stroke of luck for Elizabeth . And vice versa. He was perfect for her.
Yes, we all know that he would never have noticed her if it weren't for her position as the heir to the throne. Not even with all the money in the world she could look beautiful and instead he looked like a Hollywood actor.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder-
I found her to be beautiful..... and when I’ve seen the way he looked at her, I believe he did too... and they always looked at each other like they were very much in love. You can’t fake over 70 years of THAT.... They were Soulmates.
@@laylas7429 The reason they were together for that long besides love was that she couldn’t and wouldn’t divorce.....the Queen had to look the other way as she knew of his infidelities. Just saying....
@@alvaroayalakunze5727 how can you not see her beauty? They were both very good looking in their prime.
@@alvaroayalakunze5727 Rubbish. He loved and adored her and was devoted to her and she him Anybody with two eyes can see that. He gave up his career, his titles and even his family name to be with her.
Former staff talk of lots of love and laughter through all their years of marriage.
I have the utmost respect for Prince Philip. He knew exactly what he was getting into when he married Elizabeth. He knew he would be spending the rest of his life walking two steps behind the Queen.
And you nicely continue to show that respect by spelling his name right unlike many on here.
I don't think he expected it to happen so early in his life. Perhaps it made a nice retirement idea for him to be a royal consort after a life at sea.
Do you also have the ‘utmost respect’ for billions of women who are normally expected to do that ?
@@kristelpi652 shut up dumb feminazi
@@scottlabossiere1866 dumb? Then explain it to me 😂 loser
RIP Prince Phillip. Since his death I’ve been reading more in depth about him. Truly amazing.
There's lots the public doesn't know..a lot of these people have earned a lot of merit, but people don't know the facts
@Aleksandra Branco it’s much better being a communist, right???
@Aleksandra Branco Really now!! Stop this ridiculous nonsense immediately! Have some respect! U have just delivered the utmost insult to one who had fought the nazis honorably during WWII!!
@Aleksandra Branco His father was and all of his sisters married Nazi's but Philip lived in England and wasn't Nazi.
@Aleksandra Branco I’ve lived under Islamofacism, Latin American socialism, capitalism and my family and I escaped two dictators! One of them Saddam Hussein! Twice we escaped that racist facist Sob. I think I can tell who’s a facist.
Royal family members are not good looking but they married extraordinarily handsome and beautiful people into their family.
Money talks man
Prince Philip and Princess Diana were two of those people.
Yup and none of the royal family beat philip and Diana good looking
Yup and none of the royal family beat philip and Diana good looking
Except Camilla 😅
The Queen mother doesn’t seem to like most people lmao..
well the feelings mutual on my part anyway.down w the crown!
It's so strange to know this b/s. I don't understand why the British people and us want to keep this drivel alive.
I'm surprised Queen Mary actually liked her. Then again, Mary was a commoner herself.
or she doesen't like anyone at all even her queen daughter especially when her daughter became a queen lol
She wasn’t a royal she just married into so she was an asshole to everyone
Prince Philip was higher born than Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon. Philips family probably would have looked down on her. He was born into royalty.....she married it.
Poor Philip not only had to spend his life walking behind his wife, he had to deal with that old bag too.
Damn. Now I know why Prince William once said Prince Philip was such a legend.
Looks wise I can see what the Queen saw in Phillip he was quite a stunning looking man in his day!
I wonder if she knew he had as much 'royal' blood in his vanes as she : nothing at all!
And Princes Charles and William are a picture of him.
And to think her husband was just an attendant Lord at her coronation.
Wtf it's her damn cousin
He is alright. He is no Alain Delon. Depends on your tastes.
He modernized the monarchy, became a wonderful husband to Queen Elizabeth II, and an amazing father, grandfather and great-grandfather. May Prince Philip rest in peace
Well, he really wasn’t that great of a father..
Reading history does make sense. Hope one day Peace will register 🙏 upon the mind of Humanity..I do have admiration for Prince Phillip..
He has been an excellent consort - the complete package. The Queen is lucky to have him as her husband
The Queen mother said that house was too small 😳
My studio flat is so small my fridge has to be in my bedroom 😒
Humble yourself.
@Ami- lee - lest ye be humbled.
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Ami- lee at least you have a fridge, so not too bad!
They don't live reality.
@@suzyschwarz7023 Handy for a snack in bed.
I swear the older that Queen Elizabeth II gets, the more she looks like her grandmother Queen Mary! :-o
I don't see that at all.
That is a shame
i think Princess Anne looks more like Mary.
Suppose all humans look that way if covid 19 doesn't get them!
@@anneheimburger3186 Whatever happened to the Duchess of Pork!
Prince Philip was so HOT when he was young!!
A handsome man indeed. I'm not sure I would say hot. Well, I think we basically mean the same thing, lol.
@Tracey Sparacio - He certainly was! Don't you know that HMTQ was very happy when nighttime arrived? He is STILL an extremely handsome man. Hard to believe he will be 100 years old in June, isn't it?
He's still hot!
@@unaninanine3743 - Amen, sister!
he is very old now, but still there's something to him.....
Great to see the old films of the Queen and Philip falling in love, married with children - thank you! Great job @Absolutehistory !
If they said that Queen Elizabeth the second (27 at the time of her coronation) was premature, what was queen Victoria who was 18 at the time of her coronation?
Rosetta Louisseus Queen Elizabeth was 25 the same age as the original queen Elizabeth
The days of Victoria children had to grow up much faster than even when Elizabeth was born
@@wilmafistfit4788 Not Queen Victoria. As a princess, she led a very sheltered life. She wasn't allowed to walk up or down stairs without holding the hand of her governess. There were a lot of people who were afraid she wouldn't be able to rule, given her youth and her gender.
Wasn’t Edward VI only 9 when he was crowned?
@@daniel_sc1024 and Queen Victoria's mother.
How ungrateful too small for her!! She's only one person. Who would want to live with their mother in law like that?
Philip is just what every women needs, a Strong Handsome Man that stays beside a Woman to serve and love her for the rest of his life, and thats exactly what he did. RIP Prince Philip! What a life you had!
Right!!!!!!!!
Men have their own lives and it’s not to serve their wives or other women.
It’s time women learnt to serve their husbands.
Gotta admire his persistence, if allowed back then, he could have done so much if he hadn’t met with road blocks.. very admirable of him, to stick with his wife til his passing. Going through what he did, many marriages would have ended in divorce, it goes to show how truly strong he was and why he was the Queen’s main anchor, my hearts goes out to her. She has lost the better half of herself with his passing, may she still stand fast and strong as if he’s never left her side.
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@@emilyreyes8922 ???
if everyone in the royal family could have married who they really loved they wouldnt have such troubles...i mean queen eliizabeth herself wouldnt let her own sister marry the man she loved...the found someone more to their liking...please
They had a good marriage, tho they had their up & downs as any marriages do. He did like to party with his friends for a long time until he finally had to give it up. I had read he ran the household behind the scenes. It made her life easier. I think they loved each other very much.
I believe that two people who have had a love story as Elizabeth and Philip had, are connected forever, even after one passes.
I never liked the Queen Mother. She pretended to be meek and holier-than-thou, when in actuality she was conniving, arrogant, manipulative and cold.
@Griffith Williams she'd be disappointed in harry and would have hated having an actress in the family
she wasn't actually all bad and she was loved in my country
Foi muito ruim com a Princesa Diana.
Just Another Happy Humanist don't forget racist.
Toina Nwachuku And xenophobic. She despised poor people. She looked down on pretty much everyone. Awful woman.
@@justanotherhappyhumanist8832 she didn't look down on everyone,
If Phillip truly didn't realize even before he married Elizabeth that he would eventually have to take a step back behind her,then he must of been pretty thick
going on his later life behaviour he might just be thick as a plank
I'm not defending him, but he must have expected a much longer time as just the "husband of the princess". The king died fairly young.
'must 'have' been pretty thick' - 'have' not 'of' been thick.
It’s a common theme when some prince marries a female heir to a throne. Albert was ticked off he wasn’t made king, recently so was the husband of the danish queen, Margarethe, he was so mightily pissed off he wasn’t made king he refused to be buried beside her. So Phillip follows the misogynistic tradition;s. It would really be so much simpler and sensible if lineage was traced matrilinearly
J Andrews Queen Magarethe’s husband was the exact same person I was thinking when bringing up Philip’s role beside Queen Elizabeth.
Since PP is such a good looking fellow, why are the kids didn’t take after him?🤨
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Skipped a generation
Great point! None of them, except Andrew for awhile, not anymore
Andrew was quite handsome in his youth . Charlie should have had those ears pinned.
Anne actually does to quite an extent, but his looks don't suit a woman as well as a man.
Why was Queen Mother doubtful about Prince Philip, wasn't he like the third cousin and belonged to the same family?
The Queen Mother was doubtful because Elizabeth’s father George VI had initially objected to the match, despite liking Philip. The prince had an excellent war record but he wasn’t British and didn’t belong to the Church of England. He didn’t even have a surname and ‘foreign’ marriages were viewed with caution, particularly in the wake of the 1936 Abdication Crisis. Philip formally asked George for permission to marry Elizabeth and the king agreed on the proviso that he wait for an official engagement until Elizabeth turned 21 in April 1947. On 9 July of that year the couple’s engagement was announced. Philip threw himself into becoming a British subject: he renounced his Greek and Danish titles, converted from Greek Orthodoxy to Anglicanism and took his mother’s maiden name, Mountbatten.
Any husband that doesn't say anything about his wife's choice of hats is a good husband.
Hat's are for bald men. Trumpy Pumpie likes blond wigs, since he doesn't like being called bald Eagle!
@@mikefay5698 LOL
@@Hudson1910 Have you ANY Idea of the LONG list of accomplishments that President Trump has caused to have happened in his first 3.5 years? (more than ANY other president since Abraham Lincoln). Or for blacks? Or for Hispanics? Or for Jews? Or for prisoners? Or for women?
Have you any idea what President Trump has done for the world?
IF he wins by a landslide will you READ his list of accomplishments? Or, are you such a committed Leftist that you hate Trump more than you love America?
American can ONLY help the rest of the world if we are strong. America has NEVER hoarded wealth; we share it.
THE exception to that tradition are the VILE LEFTISTS like Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Jeff Zucker, and George Soros, and ALL THE GREEDIES who refuse to share their enormous income.
@@cjosborne9430 Calm down, we were talking about hats here :/
@@Fucoc You are not even worth responding to, since you do not read for content or context. Bye, Felicia!
46 minutes on why a woman doesn't like her son in law, Absolute Tripe.
Twelve minutes in, I don't have the time or patience.
Queen Elizabeth was totally smitten with Philip. And from I can see he was totally in love with her.
Elizabeth chose a strong, independent-minded man, who probably thought a lot of the customs were a bit ridiculous and extravagant. He finally did succeed in getting his children to bear his name. I’ve wondered if Andrew came about for that reason. Enough time had passed when Philip had first challenged it with Charles and Anne, so really the only way to bring it back into discussion was to have a new baby.
His uncle was the pressure to have Mountbatten added to their names. From what I have read Churchill was dead against it.His uncle pushed hard to have his grand daughter marry PC, but she refused and bugger me if grandmothers from both sides of PC & Diana's families put there heads together and suggested they get married it just proves a point not all Grannies know what's best IMO.offcourse 😢😢
Yes she chose her cousin.
I was fourteen and remember watching the coronation on television
So glad this was allowed as it was recorded history
@Cali Girl Sadly it probably won't be as magical or impressive.
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Why are they shocked about Philips "mysterious" ethnicity? Aren't they cousins lol
It wasn't the family that was unsure of Phillip's background-they knew it. It was the courtiers surrounding the royal family that questioned it--Alan Laselles being the primary one. I loved the story of one of them escorting Prince Phillip around Buckingham Palace arrogantly tell him to not worry, he'd soon learn his way around to which Prince Philip responded, "I know. I was born here."
King George vi and Queen Elizabeth knew his history and family. It's only the Crown, total drama, that can't gets its facts right. Lies sound better than the truth.
His family lost the Greek Throne and then regained it - with stable monarchies, that is a BIG RED FLAG as far as marriage and such goes. Also, while they came from older royal families, the Greek Crown was new. They were carpetbagger royals - less than a century old. (carpetbagger royals were younger members of olde royal families chosen to be come monarchs of the newly created states in Europe - all of them in SE Europe - in the Balkans; the last one was Albania in 1914) Compared to the lineage of the British Family ( and there are SEVERAL of us going into extended and distant ranks) they don't have what we have - Alfred the Great, William the Conqueror, Henry VIII (alright, I confess he was a stinker), the blood of the Stuarts; the only commonality was Charlemagne with these "noveau monarchies". Philip's bloodline included that, even though the Greek Throne was held by the Danish House of Glucksburg, thus the "of Denmark and Greece" title. Even among royalty, there was a VAST pecking order of this or that highness and then kingly rank and finally, imperial rank.
True. He is blood related to his wife, the queen. Why does this documentary making such a fuss and lying to their viewers 😠? I stopped watching this so called doc half way.
@@airspun9801 i believe they
were 3rd cousins.
He was also Prince of Greece.
a Prince of Greece and Denmark, to be exact.
I stand corrected.
No he wasn’t ! Look up Princess Alice, his mother, Germany took over their little country!
He was Prince of nowhere !!
Margaret deVries The Duke of Edinburgh was born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, son of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark. The duke is a grandson of the “first” King of the Hellenes, George I of Greece. His mother, on the other hand, was born Princess Alice of Battenberg, Battenberg being a cadet branch of the Hessian grand ducal family into which her mother, Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (and as well as Victoria’s youngest sister Empress Alexandra Feodorovna), belonged. The duke’s impeccable lineage is far better than the Queen Mother’s medieval past.
Philip’s father, Prince Andrew, was absent at his birth as he was away fighting in the Greek army during the Greco-Turkish War (1919-22). During this conflict Andrew was the commander of the Greek Second Army Corps, but he proved to be an ineffectual general. At the pivotal Battle of Sakarya on 19 September 1921, he refused to obey the orders of his superior officer and tried to work to his own battle plan. Unfortunately this lack of co-ordination and communication contributed to a battlefield stalemate, and subsequently the war was lost. Andrew was relieved of his command and a year later he was arrested as part of the 11 September 1922 Revolution. This was a revolt of the Greek armed forces against the government, who they held responsible for the Turkish victory. It led to the downfall of the Greek monarchy and the abdication of King Constantine. As the brother of Constantine and a disgraced army commander, Andrew was in deep trouble. He was accused of treason and initially sentenced to death. General Pangalos, the Greek Minister of War, asked him, “How many children have you?” When Andrew replied Pangalos reportedly said: “Poor things, what a pity they will soon be orphans.”
When Princess Alice heard of Andrew’s plight she travelled to Athens to plead for his life but she was not permitted to see her husband, so she turned to her British relatives for help. King George V, who was possibly haunted by not allowing his cousin Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family to seek asylum in Britain during World War I, urged for a British intervention to evacuate the family. A Greek court banished Andrew from Greece for life and he was released in December 1922. He was lucky: six other senior members of the government were tried and executed. Soon afterwards a Royal Navy gunboat, HMS Calypso, evacuated the family from Corfu. Prince Philip, who was still a baby, was reputedly carried out to the ship in a makeshift cot made out of an orange box. For the infant child it was the start of decades of stateless wandering. From the moment Philip left Corfu on 3 December 1922 until he moved into Clarence House as Princess Elizabeth’s husband in the late 1940s, he had no permanent residence.
There is much more information about Prince Phillip’s sad childhood. The above information came directly from www.historyanswers.co.uk/kings-queens/the-tragedy-of-young-prince-philip-the-nazis-the-navy-and-the-broken-home/
The Queen Mother was a commoner. She was only allowed to marry the stuttering George because he was the second son. After Edward's abdication, she suddenly became Queen and developed into the most fearful snob. Her presence led to many problems, not just with Phillip: Margaret not being allowed to marry Townsend and then becoming an embarrassment; Charles not being allowed to marry Camilla resulting in the disaster with Diana.
She was a commoner, her father was a count. She was not royal but she was not a commoner. But I don't like her either
Margaret not marrying Townsend and stay a princess was opposed by parliament
@@iTube22100 A count? What country are you referring to? There are no Scottish counts.
Evidence for these assertions please.
Wrong, Dalton. The Queen Mother didn't want to marry him at first. She rejected Bertie's first two marriage proposals, being "afraid never, never again to be free to think, speak and act as I feel I really ought to."
Queen Victoria wouldve loved him because he was somewhat like Albert. The queen mother and Elisabeth both didnt like Princess Alice his mother
Kaleah Collins actually the Queen engendered a reconciliation between mother and son
How do you know that?
As someone who lived through all this (yes, I am that old) and there is a lot of rubbish in this.
hazeluzzell whats the rubbish?
Like whaaaat? :D
I’m thinking more of the sensationalising language. It wasn’t as though Elizabeth didn’t,t expect to become Queen, she’d been trained for it all her life.There was no ‘premature catapulting’ The abdication came as pretty much a relief...not so much a shaky monarchy. There were more important things, like a war to fight.so the Queen Mum was jealous of her daughter? I doubt it. The ‘Family’ knew exactly who Philip was. If the Family wanted rid of him, he’d have been gone, like Margaret and Peter Townsend. I wouldn’t particularly trust the ‘talking heads’ they’ve shipped in either. Opinion and conjecture
It's more helpful if you actually stated what is 'rubbish'.
@@hazeluzzell you got to make a yt video then.... do try please
I wonder why they let the King and Queen mother sit together for his Coronation, but Prince Phillip wasn’t allowed to sit beside Queen Elizabeth for her Coronation?
They’re really acting like we don’t know that they’re related ...
It could be said that no nationality comes from anywhere. The modern English are a mish-mash of Normans, Saxons, Celts, Danes and others.
Don't tell that to the Japanese or the Native Peoples who all believe in their special creation.
So all Germanic then as are the Royal family.
@@uptoncriddington6939 That's because they have an innate knowledge of DNA which is spiritually anointed to be deliberately constructed by God for his divine purposes
@@tahenare8746 Oh I see. That explains their view perfectly...
@@uptoncriddington6939 your reply doesn't take me back to the full discussion. I wish I could pick up the context. I suspect the more expert tribes were regarding genealogical lines, the more reason they had to diversify their matches. I am descended from both English and Polynesian ancestors. The English ancestor, tho notable, wasnt highly regarded by his Polynesian inlaws. I am keen to obtain access to Windsor Castle Library, to research him, as he was equerry to Geo 4th, and his wife lady in waiting to Queen Charlotte.
Prince Phillip cut quite the figure in his youth. 👀
Indeed, Cheers Love;)
Handsome!
He was quite handsome
Yes. He was a handsome young man.
Swastika's mainly!
i love prince philip!♥ i would not move in with my mother voluntarily and i would also want to change such a terribly old lifestyle if i had to live there until the end of my life. he was so down to earth. how a disney princess brings the fresh wind in when the prince brings her into the castle.
Once King George VI died, the Queen Mother had no right to stay in Buckingham Palace. The arrogance of the woman demanding to stay there. She felt Clarence House was below her - too small. She had bought a castle - the Castle of Mey. Perhaps she should have lived there if Clarence House was beneath her delusions of grandeur. When Queen Mary was widowed, she didn't insist on staying in Buckingham Palace. Why did the Queen Mother get away with it - constantly interfering and making decisions - forgetting that she was no longer married to the monarch?
I don’t know how Phillip put up with his mother in law. I guess he got his frustrations out through the “Thursday Club”.
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I dunno either. I can't understand my mother-in-law at all
William is like the Queens mother
The sweet old ‘Queen Mum’ - what a piece of work she was...as for Queen Mary...
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You mean Queen Mary the "kleptomaniac", Her friends learned to hide anything they really didn't want her to take.
Kathleen Warner - The one and only May of Teck herself.
I feel bad for Elizabeth. She hadn't been married long and then she was thrust into being the monarch....at 25 years old. I remember being that age and I didn't know myself. So she had a lot to deal with and was expected to do it all correctly. Sure, she was royalty and didn't have to deal with the daily stuff we all do but still, a marriage, her father's death and all that was involved with being the monarch.....whoa.
Yeah. While I may be fascinated by the British Royal Family and it's history, I wouldn't want that on very many people. I know I'd have probably crumbled under all that pressure and expectation.
The royals know who they are at birth. William knows he will take the throne one day Harry knows he's the spare.
The white outfits in Paris were spectacular for sure!!!
I actually like Prince Philip. I admit he said some off the wall things in the past yet; I respect that he like to think outside the box.
Prince philip was the most decent & down to earth of them all.May He R.I.P. &
rise in eternal glory.
I've always liked Prince Phillip. He is my favorite royal!
Queen Mary was delighted that her half royal grand-daughter married equally to a Prince of blood.These people make it sound as if Prince Philip was some random commoner. He is 2nd cousin to Elizbeth II
Third cousin
ND: They are third (3rd) cousins.
@@jimmcdiarmid7308 they are also second cousin once removed through King Christian IX of Denmark
Queen Alexandra George I of greece
George V prince Andrew
George VI prince philip
Elizabeth ii
Queen Elizabeth's father George vi and prince philip were second cousin. George Vi and prince Philip's mother princess Alice were also second cousins through Queen victoria.
Phillip was prince of Denmark and Greece, and was 2d in line for the Greek throne when that monarchy was abolished.
We lost Prince Philip today. RIP. 💔
People who want to marry into the royal family are nuts!
You cant just marry into the royal family, lol. I guess you can, but you have to leave. Like with the situations involving Wallis and Meghan. All these people (that don’t get their spouse kicked out of the family) come from aristocratic families. They’re not letting actual commoners and letting them stick around. I’d say they’re even more strict with it now since Diana. She was aristocratic (possibly more than Charles but I digress) and *still* wanted to expose the inner workings and what they really do.
Well, good luck finding a woman of marrying age 'intact' in today's world.....lol
9I’m a moron but, 7
@@ekquinn7059 Or a man ever
@@rhondabitler2461 I get that but I don't think it matters with the man like it does the woman, as far as virginity is concerned.
Philip's mother was born at Windsor Castle for God's sake! He's a descendant of Victoria & Albert & Christian/Louise of Denmark. They are related both ways. He was hardly a commoner. Poor for a royal, yes. And the Queen Mother was the daughter of one of the wealthiest peers of the realm!
Butvthe Queen mother WAS. NOT A ROYAL BY ANY STANDARD.She had lots of loonies in her family!
Churchill was worried that a religious service would be seen as a theatrical event? When has a religious service not been a theatrical event?
not to mention that coronation, and the whole pageantry aspect of royalty, has ALWAYS been pure theatre, events in which the royals intended themselves to be seen in a royal light by as many people as possible, both to secure their position and to fulfil it as a visible and effective head and focal point for the country. that was the original function of court, that was why it was originally mobile on a non-stop tour of the country, that was the original function of every public appearance of the monarch from mediaeval times, and it was openly acknowledged as such. the QM and the older royals might have been against it, but in televising the coronation Elizabeth was the one being true to tradition.
Donald Hotep all human activity is. Take douchecanoes grandstanding and talking like a bigshots badmouthing religion...for the benefit of the audience reading comments. 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼
Next!
yeme actually, the coronation is a deeply religious ceremony in where the new monarch promises to become defender of the faith. The new monarch is the head of the church. They believe they are gods representative on earth. I know it would seem mainly pomp nowadays when there are a large number of people moving away from Christianity, but that part of it was the main point of the coronation.
@@dylanthepickle6428Defender of the Faith was a title given by Pope Leo to Henry VIII early in his reign because of a book he wrote, and later confirmed by Parliament. The first monarch to have that as part of his coronation was Henry's son, Edward VI. Obviously, there were coronations before that, so that is not the point of the ceremony. It's difficult to find any clear explanation, but I think becoming a representative of god, accepting a calling from god (as monarch) is reasonably accurate. I think part of it is (or was) the idea that monarchs are responsible to god for how they affect the lives of their people and anyone whom their actions and decisions touch.
@@dylanthepickle6428 yes, its true that the transformation aspect of coronation has that significance, the normal person becoming the divinely chosen and anointed monarch but that could all take place in a small service behind closed doors, could it not? with the monarch, a priest and maybe an attendant or two.
but for a thousand years it has been a huge occasion for display and ceremony with public holidays declared, vast amounts spent on processions and parades and displays. in mediaeval London the water conduits were made to run with wine, special costumes were made for hundreds of people and many thousands of pounds spent (at a time when an income of a thousand or two placed you among the wealthiest in the country). The pomp seen in coronations in the C19th and C20th was actually toned down compared to the huge excesses of the past.
Prince Phillip was an amazing father but to have a son like Charles must of been a disappointment..but his grandson takes after his grandfather... William will be an amazing king.... Phillip lost a part of himself as the queen mother stopped all his dreams... He could of done some remarkable things if he was allowed to... And to still have the grace and dignity to always follow behind the queen speaks volumes of his grace....and 800 service and charities was outstanding.... The USA salutes you for your service to God country and family....
Agreed
Agreed
Yeah, but we'll see see William become king? Charles is first in line, unfortunately. I think Charles should abdicate. He's already 72 years old, but then again, seeing the royal life expectancy, if he took the throne at 74, which I believe will be the case, we have 25 years or so before William will be next. Not too hot on the idea of Kate being Queen Consort...
King Charles III will be wonderful. Long Live the King!
Agreed
He was the handsomest Prince in the World !!! ♥👑💙👑♥👑💙
Ikr! He was soooo handsome and brave and devoted to Elizabeth.
I always thought so too!
I bet Philip quite got along with Diana.... both were for changing the face of the monarchy.
Sacheen Lake none of the royal family got along with Diana.
@@nbenefiel That's just sad. I was hoping that at least Phillip would have gotten along with her. Although, he probably wouldn't have been allowed to by the women folk.
@@Sacheen81 But he did get along with her and there are letters to prove it!
Diana was a real royal. She married beneath her.
@@nbenefiel Vice versa methinks.
That's funny because until Kate Middleton added more English blood to the royal line, their heritage was primarily German.
And they dared to criticise Meghan because of her color that's hypocritical.
@@comfortibrahim3445 nobody criticised meegain’s skin color. She lied about it.
@@joy3203 No, she didn't. The remarks were made to Harry and he told Meghan while she was pregnant with Archie. Not the best idea.
@@joy3203 If you're going to call her a liar you should at least be able to spell her name.
IKR 😂
The Queen Mother had a rather doughy face. Queen Elizabeth definitely got her good looks from her father.
She looks just like her mother 🤔
No wonder Wallis Simpson called the Queen Mother "powder puff".
The Queen Mother was considered a great beauty when she was young. I think the Queen got her looks from both her parents.
Prince Philip is the great great grandson of Czar Nicholas I. He was also the great nephew of Alexandra, wife of last Czar Nicholas II of Russia. Alexandra was also the granddaughter of Queen Victoria. So I would say Prince Philip definitely had some royal in him.
Absolutely!!!@
Sorry about the @
+first cousin once removed of nicholas Ii
Completely more royal than any others
Prince Phillip was so handsome.
GAG....gag me....he completely creeps me out
He was small due to inbreeding close slightly cock eyes and an Eagle sized hooter. He told the British Workers to "Pull their fingers out"!. As only Woyalty can do. The Gall of the Arch Parasite who hadn't even produced a match stick. But boy could he suck!
I agree. QE is total smitten
Cynthia Pratt . That generation had more than it’s share of handsome we’ll put together Gentlemen .
Prince from nowhere? Only in England! He shares the same great grandparents as his wife! Queen Victoria and Prince Albert! Hello. Scary the courtiers didn't know his lineage come on now! I'm American and I know that. But my heritage is English so I can call them out. Lol
I understood that when queen Elizabeth got married her dress was modest and the celebration was on a budget to save on finances since England was engaged in WWII and spending prohibitive resources the country didn't have. How is it then that the royals had the money to spend on lavish parties for Philip and his friends? Is it all PR relations to fool the public?
They're a bunch of sectarian throne grabbers the lot of them.
The last legitimate monarch was James II, a Stuart - but a Catholic and thus barred.
His (diluted) blood line did survive through the reign of Queen Anne but then gave way to the present German line.
However the second next King will be descended from Charles II (via his mother Lady Di) but by the back stairs.
dukadar o'dear Get it right. James II reigned for three years as a Roman Catholic. His attempts to downplay the Established Church and some of his other moves were meant to reimpose popery on his subjects. This united both Whigs and most Anglican Tories. When he saw he had gone too far, he took fright and fled the kingdom and the Throne was declared vacant. His nephew and son-in-law, William of Orange, was offered the Crown along with James’s elder daughter, Mary. As husband and wife, they reigned as William III and Mary II. Fed up with repeated attempts to reimpose an unwanted sect from the Vatican on the three kingdoms, over 150 years, the Act of Settlement of 1701 was brought in to ensure the exclusion of all papists from the succession. Despite recent changes, this remains official British and Commonwealth policy. Suck it up papist Erser!
@@juliamorales6620 She got married in Nov 1947 more than two years after VJ Day (in Aug 1945).
@@juliamorales6620 World War 2 was over when they married in 1947. Lavish so called parties would still cost a damn sight less than the kind of blow out wedding they might have had. A wedding like say Charles and Diana had.
The Queen mother was a commoner before she married the King. There's a story going around that she was the maid's daughter adopted by the Bowes-Lyon
Treasure2Behold: I read that story in one of the Rag Mags at least 45/50 years ago, long before there was internet. So, there probably could be truth in that old story. Many common people have a fortune of money, but that doesn't make them Royal.
Very handsome man no wonder the queen married him
It was not a mistake. Generations to come will view in awe as we do now at the magnificent Coronation. God bless the Queen.
Prince Phillip belongs to the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg which is the house of the royal families of Denmark, Norway and Greece. He is the grandson of a king. He chose the name Mountbatten because his maternal uncle looked after him when no one else did. Even though all his sisters married German princes, he is no more German than the rest of the Royal Family (meaning quite a bit). The Queen Mother had absolutely no reason to look down on his pedigree, considering she was the daughter of some obscure Scottish earl and her mother was a commoner.
When Prince Albert married Queen Victoria, the name of the royal house was changed to his House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and if they had followed those traditions they were all about, it should have been the same for Prince Phillip.
I don't get why people think the Queen Mother was so wonderful. She drank like a fish and spent like there was no tomorrow. Each year she would spend 8 times the amount she got through the Civil List and her daughter and grandson had to bail her out. When she died, she left behind more then £7 million in debt.
The Queen Mother had been Queen to what was a major power and still influential country. Philip came from a line in Greece who's founding ancestor had been a former general of common birth of Napoleon's and succesively married into relatively minor monarchs of continental Europe. And was unwanted by Greece by the time Philip's father died. And was dirt poor. And who's mother was known to be, at best, eccentric, at worst, crazy as a loon. And had no influence or friends anywhere except his unce in England, Mountbatten. His one gift was his looks, his one advantage was having a bloodline good enough for the Almanach de Gotha. The Queen Mother was terrible. But she had been a Queen consort. Of Britain. During the last height of their power, influence and, grandeur. Phillip was a minor Prince of a country he could never rule and didn't want him, with nothing but a handsome face.
Prince Philip's mother's maiden name was Battenberg - that was anglicized to Mountbatten by his uncle - Louis Montbatten.
@@accc9090 Are you describing the house of Bernadette of Sweden.... That's not Phillips House....
@@accc9090 At least he had a career in the Navy - not just a eurotrashy climber.
I don’t know the royals personally so I’m not one to judge. But from everything I have read, if it is true...I agree the Queen Mother was not the best royal. I love Queen Elizabeth for her charm and steadfast nature. Prince Philip is absolutely witty and amusing. I like Princess Anne for being a cool princess (how many people can hold off a kidnapping). I admire King George for stepping in and sticking it through to be king when his brother abdicated. But the Queen Mother As noted racked up a debt that obviously tax payers probably had to pay for. She apparently had a whole house meant as clothing storage and worst yet I heard she encouraged Charles to have an affair with Camilla as an attack on Princess Diana. The only nice thing I heard about the Queen Mother is that she completely supported her husband. This adds a lot of weight as King George really needed that emotional support when nobody else believed in him. So I give the Queen Mother credit for that.
The woman standing to the left of the Queen Mother during the coronation ceremony is the Princess Royal -- the sister of the deceased king. She was QEII's aunt.
You can see Prince Harry's face in the photos of Prince Philip looking angry.
Likely Harry was disturbed because he knew he was growing up to look like gramps.
Um no
Dixie, I've often thought that Harry looked more like Prince Philip than he did any of the Spencers. William, however, looked like the Spencers, like his mother Prince Diana.
Glad to see I'm not the only one who could see Harry's resemblance to his gramps, Too bad he didn't listen to his advice of dating Meghan but don't marry her.
@@TheSouthpaw725 I am glad he didn't listen to the old fart
It’s very shameful that the elites of Britain refused to allow Elizabeth a voice in her coronation. The beauty and majesty of the coronation should be visible to the public Afterall , the people paid millions for this one very important day in her life. And the lives of the nation.
It was a beautiful coronation which I had the pleasure of watching on television in Paris.
It wasn't shameful. It was a reluctance born of reverence. Also, had the Queen insisted on anything she would have been listened to and would likely have carried the day if there weren't an excellent and convincing countering argument. In the end, it was broadcast. Ruat coeli.
The Ueen Mother wanted to have and had total control of the Queen for decades. QE II needed to grow a backbone and send her mother to another palace to live where QE II could still be close , but her mother was not the center of government. It took many years before E II grew up enough to take control , but to this day QE II still rules the country with the old fashion attitudes of her mother. She demands total control of her children’s lives and the lives of all the grandchildren. The attitude of QE II is at the center of many of the s candles and divorces of the children. QE II never gave Philip the respect that any husband deserved. QE II was the Queen but, had zero input into the monarchy. The DEEP STATE OF BRITAIN WAS THE QUEENS OWN MOTHER. QE II has no input into the monarchy or her personal family.
gail handschuh Your assertions as to total control are demonstrably false.
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I blame Queen Elizabeth for most of what happened between Phillip and the Queen Mother. When you get married the husband takes precedent over your mother no matter who she is...
There can be compromise in every relationship, it’s not a game.
@@banjopete Who said it was ? Did you even watch this because your comment makes no sense.
The queen also denied refuge for Alex and Nicholas. She despised Alex, they were related and didn't get along from childhood. This effectively hung them out to dry
@************************************ all offspring of Victoria, grandchildren, nieces, nephews. Alex used the make fun of the future queen mother's stubby fingers. She never forgot it
They sought refuge in 1917. She didn't marry the Duke of York until 1923. She didn't become the queen consort until 1936. The Bolsheviks murdered the Romanovs in 1917. Do please check things first before making unwarranted assertions which amount to slandering the dead.
@@thorawilson1466 The Queen Mother was a Bowes Lyon and on her mother's side a Cavendish-Bentinck, Burnaby, etc. She did not descend from Queen Victoria.
Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip"s marriage was not engineered by Lord Mountbatten. They indeed fell in love.
Not necessarily mutually exclusive. I think even with “normal” dating most people have serious relationships “vetted” by their parents.
😂😂😂 were you there? How the fuck can you be so sure?
@@bwoww_163 because I have read. They met at Royal Naval College,Dartmouth when she was 13 and he was 18. Lord Louis Mountbatten asked Phillip to escort Margaret and Elizabeth. Soon after they fell in love and started exchanging letters. He didn't instigate anyone. Philip renounced his Danish and Greek titles and himself asked for her hand. What is it if not love?
@@brindade2004 😂😂😂
Good Lord, the queen mother would be enough to drive any sane man away.
She reminds me of an alcoholic version Hyacinth Bucket.
Ryan Marshall--The Queen Mum was a nasty piece of work. She was the darling of George V who tolerated her habitual lateness. When Wallis appeared on the scene (or, as the Queen Mum said, "blew in from Baltimore"), she was a real threat to Elizabeth's favored place. Wallis, as the wife of Edward VIII, would have outranked her and that was something that Elizabeth's ego could not tolerate. There is a sad photograph of Wallis, at the Duke of Windsor's funeral, looking forlornly out of one of the Palace's windows. One biography states that Wallis, while invited to the Palace, was totally ignored by the "royals" (so-called) during her stay except for the public moments (staged by ER II and her mother). The excuse given by the Palace PR hacks was that Wallis was suffering from dementia. Even though she was, that is hardly justifiable, but the Queen Mum, in spite of her carefully managed image, was a real b*tch.
@@cadengrace5466 I remember that show. The comparison is quite perfect.
She was an extremely strong woman. She was the perfect lady for the times. Hitler considered her Public Enemy #1. And George VI was not exactly a strong man
During her day Wallis Gabe as good as she got. But Elizabeth never forgave Wallis for what she did to Edward - who was also a weak man - and thrusting her husband into the role of King
@@lesleeherschfus707 Wallis didn't "do" anything except exist and catch the eye of Edward VIII while he was the Prince of Wales. Wallis was happy to be Edward's mistress, but had no desire to marry him or be queen. She wanted to stay married to Ernest Simpson, who was completely agreeable to her relationship with Edward since he enjoyed the business opportunities available to the spouse of a royal favorite.
But Edward became fixated upon Wallis, who fitted his kinks better than any other women he'd met. Wallis tried to demur, and told Edward not to give up his throne for her, but to no avail. Also, a lot of high-ranking government officials wanted Edward gone because he was a Nazi sympathizer, and consider Wallis the perfect pretext to lure Edward into abdication.
I'm always suspicious of people who constantly smile.
More like their smile looks creepy rather than honest
I was once sacked from a job because I smiled too much......
.....my job was funeral director!! 🤣
I know that kind of smile of hers. Creepy!
Plenty of money fawning crowds and a nip of Gin you would smile too. Woyalty is always heppy and condescending to people who have to pay for their antics!
hazelwood3347 She did have an amazing smile. She looked at me directly and smiled. It felt very personal.
Rest In Peace HRH the Duke of Edinburgh.
RIP
She is a commoner and he was Royalty. In your face Dowager Queen ! That man had to put up with his mother in law most of his life! He deserves a crown for that!
Yeah, but that cant happen.
You should all show more respect for her. The queen mother was an amazing lady
The Queen Mother was not a Commoner! Her Father was "Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne", and was a direct descendant of Scottish Kings, who were the Direct Descendants of the old Celtic/Scoti going back 130 Kings as seen in the declaration of Arbroath my direct ancestor an Earl of Ross (& Chief of Ross) was 4th to sign, and the King at that time, a Bruce is who that her Father draws Direct Kinship too, and that King was related to the 130 before, like I am! The Constant Assult on Scottish History is out of line! How can you call someone a Commoner when her Father is "Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne". This is the most trash Video ever!!! And I wouldn't believe a Word!
The Queen Mother was descended from Scots Royalty. Please do a little research!