Elizabeth II will rest with Philip of Edinburgh, the conqueror of England who could not bear to be under his shadow

The Queen Isabel He passed away this Thursday, September 8, leaving the United Kingdom and the world dismayed. The monarch, who died after a long reign of 70 years, experienced one of her hardest moments in April last year, when her husband, Philip of Edinburghdied at the age of 99 after four years withdrawn from public life.

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Their last months of life were spent together at Windsor Castle, but they were marked by confinement by Covid-19 and the meticulous measures established in the castle to protect the health of both, then people at risk from the disease.

The queen, a year later, attended his funeral and there she starred in a historic moment with her young son, the prince andrew, by holding on to his arm in Westminster Abbey. It was a way of showing public support for him after his scandalous link with the pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. The remains of the queen will rest next to those of her husband in the king’s memorial chapel Jorge VI in Windsor. The funeral will take place on Monday, September 19, ten days after his death, as established in the London Bridge Operation.

The couple had four children: Carlos, Well, Andrés y Eduardo. During the children’s childhood, Felipe poured himself into them, in their games and in their tasks. According to the media, Ana was very close to her father. The Duke had a difficult father-son relationship with Carlos: Felipe’s pragmatic and stoic character collided with the sensitivity of the young heir. By decree, the queen established that her children adopt her mother’s surname, Windsor, instead of Mountbatten. A decision that plunged Felipe into deep frustration.

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The queen fell in love with the handsome Greek when she was only 13 years old and he was 19. During the courtship and the first years of marriage (they were married on November 20, 1947), passion prevailed, but from 1952 it seems that the The Duke of Edinburgh began to live his life apart from his wife.

A documentary on Channel 5 linked his dense social life and daily joy to his alleged affairs with women younger than himself. That report talked about his friendship with Lady Penny, a 65-year-old girl and how her husband’s alleged flirtations have sat the queen. Various testimonies collected in the documentary about Philip of Edinburgh agree that the marriage “has always had carte blanche to have a good time.”

Apart from his much talked about relationship with the actress Gabor Zsa Zsa and with Patricia Hodge (26 years younger than him), romances or more or less endearing friendships are attributed to him and with other women whom he liked to take sailing on the yacht Britannia. The historian Piers Brendon he stated bluntly that “the duke needed an escape and the queen began to feel annoyed”.

The actress Debbie Reynolds He assured in his memoirs that Felipe wanted to ‘touch his ass’, literally. Carrie Fisher’s mother, Princess Leia of Star Warsrevealed in his memoirs how the husband of the Queen of England (11 years older than her) went beyond a simple flirtation at the birthday party of Bob Hopeheld in London 30 years ago.

the diva of Singing in the raina, who passed away on December 28, 2016, revealed the secrets of everything that happened at that 1985 party with the Duke. The showgirl attended the celebration of her friend Bob Hope, where they were also Michael Caine, Ben Kingsley, Phyllis Diller, Charlton Heston y Chevy Chase.

Elizabeth II’s consort took advantage of the party to talk with the American actress: “He was charming. He put an arm around my waist, then took me by the hand,” Reynolds said.

“Almost immediately, he started to take more than my hand. He caressed my butt,” recalled Reynolds, who far from feeling offended was only amazed by his attitude: “I had heard that he was famous for his ‘admiration’ towards women, but I wasn’t expecting him to grab my ass. As handsome as Prince Philip is, I didn’t know if he was hitting on me or just exercising some royal right to grope foreigners.”