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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.