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Prince Philip will be 90 years old in 2011. We have grown so used to seeing him as a loyal, dutiful and occasionally bad-tempered old man that it is easy to forget what a strange and intriguing life he led when he was younger. Published to coincide with his 90th birthday, YOUNG PRINCE PHILIP will tell the story of the first, more interesting, half of his life.
In this fast-paced and highly entertaining biography, Philip Eade will focus on those aspects of the Prince's early life that are most compelling: his father's dramatic flight from revolutionary Greece; the subsequent madness of his deaf mother and prolonged absences of his feckless father; his school days in Nazi Germany; his relationship with his four sisters, all married to Germans, one to an officer in the SS; his rather breezy courtship and marriage to the most eligible girl in the world; and his alleged infidelities and membership of raffish circles during the 1950s and '60s.
Written with great verve, YOUNG PRINCE PHILIP will be less reverential in tone than the traditional royal biography but no less meticulously researched and authoritative.
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Philip Eade was born in Shropshire and educated at Marlborough and Bristol University, where he read History. He has worked as a criminal barrister, English teacher and financial journalist, and for several years he was on the obituaries desk of the Daily Telegraph. He lives in London and the Welsh Marches. His first book, `Sylvia, Queen of the Headhunters', was published in 2007 to widespread critical acclaim.
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Praise for Young Prince Philip:"The narrative is as suspenseful as any thriller. Truly an excellent read" Lynn Barber, Sunday Times"Highly readable.... This engaging book deserves to take its place among the first rank of modern royal biographies" Daily Mail"Perhaps this should be regarded as a sighting shot, staking a claim for the official biography....on the basis of this excellent book one can say it would be a task that Eade was singularly well qualified to undertake" Philip Ziegler, Spectator"Fascinating reading ...this carefully researched, warm-hearted and unjudgmental account...is...rich in detail" Evening Standard"Eade's staunchly unhagiographic book is well spiced with....royal titbits, and enlivened by a lemony tartness in the author's tone....Eade's account is as thoughtful and unbiased an explanation as we are likely to get of the contentious, sensitive, grouchy old martinet" Miranda Seymour, Guardian`You cannot judge a person's life until you have walked a mile in their shoes, and this brilliant new biography of [Prince] Philip's early life takes you inside that experience.' Irish Independent`Young Prince Philip is not a forelock-tugging royal biography . . . Philip Eade casts a clear eye over his subject's first thirty years, fleshing out with intelligence and sympathy the man whose gaffes have entertained the nation.' Frances Wilson, Times Literary Supplement
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- PublisherHarper Press
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 0007305362
- ISBN 13 9780007305360
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. Married for more than seventy three 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 Princes 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 wifes 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 dash - self-confident, capable, famously opinionated and devastatingly handsome. Girls fell at his feet, and the princess who would become his wife was smitten from the age of thirteen. Yet alongside the considerable charm and intelligence, the young prince was also prone to volcanic outbursts and to putting his foot in it. Detractors perceived in his behaviour emotional shortcomings, a legacy of his traumatic childhood, which would have profound consequences for his family and the future of the monarchy.Published to coincide with the Princes ninetieth birthday and containing new material from interviews, archives and film footage, Young Prince Philip is the most complete and compelling account yet of his storm-tossed early life. Seller Inventory # SONG0007305362
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