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A gripping biography of the early life of Prince Philip, published to coincide with his 90th birthday Married for more than sixty years to the most famous woman in the world, Prince Philip is the longest-serving royal consort in British history. Yet while he is still one of the most recognisable figures in public life, his origins remain curiously shrouded in obscurity. In 'Young Prince Philip', the first book to focus exclusively on his life before the coronation, biographer Philip Eade recounts the Prince's extraordinary upbringing in Greece, France, Nazi Germany and Britain, where he inhabited a notably colourful milieu yet was beset by continual turbulence and a succession of family tragedies. This revealing book examines the formative psychological effects of having a mother who was born deaf and was committed to a psychiatric clinic when Philip was nine, and a father who was so traumatised by his treatment at the hands of Greek revolutionaries that he later left his young son to be brought up by his wife's family, the Milford Havens and Mountbattens, just when Philip needed him most. Remarkably, there emerged from this unsettled background a character of singular vitality and

Who reads Young Prince Philip : his turbulent early life?

Author

Philip Eade

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780007305377

Category

history

Subjects

Memoir, Fiction, History

Rating

3.83 / 5 (31 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14