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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.