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Even the Queen wasn’t spared Prince Philip’s bad temper

8 May 2021

9:00 AM

8 May 2021

9:00 AM

Philip: The Final Portrait Gyles Brandreth

Coronet, pp.513, 25

Though the indefatigable Gyles Brandreth met and interviewed Prince Philip over a 40-year period, His Royal Highness managed to give very little away. ‘He would just look at me balefully and say nothing,’ Brandreth writes. Wondering what Prince Philip’s philosophy of life might be, ‘I didn’t get very far’. When asked about his childhood,‘he brushed away the subject’.

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