Monday 3 August 2015

Corfu: Mon Repos Palace





‘They mistrust and dislike Philip, for not being English, 
for not having gone to Eton, for not being one of us’

"The documentary Prince Philip: The Plot to Make a King made you realise he should be celebrated for his long-suffering and reticence. He has been called everything: Phil the Greek (he had no Greek blood in him and left the country aged one), “The Hun” (Queen Mary, apparently); not a gentleman (the court)..."

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In short, revealing in parts, disrespectful at times 

The documentary tells us much about Establishment Xenophobia in Britain at the time.



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