This last Friday Dec. 23rd, 2011, the unexpected happened and Consort-Prince Philip had heart attack and had to be rushed to a hospital and have a stent put in. This was all over World News networks but a Something went un-noticed and not understood over the gravity of the UK situation this created.
This is the END of Prince Philip ruling behind Elizabeth II as his puppet in Oligarchy/Shadow Government.
It has been long set forth in the UK that Philip's son Prince William Arthur PHILIP Louis (Mountbatten) by Philip and Princess Diana Spencer will be the next King NOT his half-brother Prince Charles by Philip and Elizabeth II.
Prince Charles was complicit in Diana's murder as the woman who bore the man who will be King NOT him; and Elizabeth II hated Diana as the "other woman" who ends her bloodline Rule from George I of House Hanover in Germany in 1714.
Diana was checked physically to make sure she was physical virgin to be impregnated by Philip in 1981 and her forced birth of William Arthur PHILIP Louis was on June 21st, 1982 the Year of the Dog on that Summer Solstice.
Prince William has been groomed since his birth to be King as his wife Kate Middleton has been groomed to be Queen since her birth and this arranged marriage of the Black Nobility, as Kate is blood related to William from a tyrant ancestor they both have in common.
This created total disorder among the UK Black Nobility with Philip's heart attack, effectively ending his Rule behind Elizabeth which means speeding up Succession in Kingship now and Elizabeth II will have to retire now likely around her 60th year as Queen at the Diamond Jubilee in 2012 and her 86th birthday.
Consort-Prince Philip with her Queen Mother ruled effectively behind Elizabeth II from 1953 and her fraud Coronation on a false Stone of Jacob.
After the Queen Mother passed away, it was Philip who ruled and plotted with an iron hand behind Elizabeth II in countless Satanic crimes in World Politics they are both complicit in willingly and loving their Evil in Ponerology personified.
However, like the unexpected death of Otto von Habsburg this last July, who left no official Heir-Designate and spoiled the game plan of a revived Holy Roman Empire like Charlemagne and delayed plans of this in the European Union, also does this heart attack of Philip's upset Black Nobility Royals' plans in the UK and Europe and many Secret Councils had to be summoned the last months after Otto's death, and this one ruined the Royals' Holiday all over Europe on what to do next and speed up Succession in the UK.
As some know, I was the first and only author who exposed the Occult meaning of the Royal Wedding of William and Kate as Heiros Gamos/Sacred Marriage at the Occult highest Festival of Fertility at Walpurgis/Beltane that goes back to Ba'al in Mesopotamia and Canaan in Israel and migrated west into Europe first with the apostate Tribe of Dan long ago.
I also was the first and only one who set out Consort-Prince Philip as the REAL father of Prince William Arthur PHILIP Louis (Mountbatten).
Anymore articles were held off until this Winter Solstice to follow the Aftermath of the Royal Wedding and Succession soon to follow.
This heart stent episode was unexpected by the UK Royals and put a crimp in their plans and ends effectively Philip ruling behind Elizabeth II if he wants to live on in any health.
This also shot down many Royal Houses holiday in Europe forcing communication and fast Secret Councils on what to do next; and be sure the Royal's Vizier Jewish Black Nobility Bankers the Ashkenazi Rothschilds and Sephardim Rockefellers were on Red Alert. This also upset American Aristocracy plans in their Masonic Chess Game.
To the citizens of the entire UK, this was a sigh of relief whether they know it or not but have lived 24/7 under the jack-boot heel tyranny of Consort-Prince Philip, and often blamed the visible Queen Elizabeth II not looking at the iron man standing behind her physically in public always as the Ruling hidden-hand behind her in REAL Oligarchy/Shadow Government.
Looking back, only in Public at the Royal Wedding, when William and Kate stepped out after the Pagan Handfasting Marriage Ceremony where Initiated Druid Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams wrapped their hands together in that embroidered cloth did Philip step IN FRONT OF THE QUEEN as William and Kate bowed before PHILIP STANDING IN FRONT OF THE QUEEN FOR THE FIRST TIME PUBLICLY PAYING HOMAGE TO DADDY PHILIP, then out in the Balcony after the Wedding standing above the People once again Philip was standing IN FRONT OF THE QUEEN IN PUBLIC SEEN but NOT understood the context of this act which defied Tradition and Laws set down where he has to stand BEHIND THE QUEEN AS CONSORT PRINCE ALWAYS.
And BOTH William and Philip with one other Man in Red were the ONLY MEN in that costume with the Order of the Garter Badge on the Three at the Royal Wedding for a Reason.
(Next article details the 3rd Man in Red, HRH Prince Edward Duke of Kent and WHY and the meaning no one has touched. Wonder why...)
In July 1993, through mitochondrial DNA analysis of a sample of Prince Philip's blood, British scientists were able to confirm the identity of the remains of several members of Empress Alexandra of Russia's family, several decades after their 1918 massacre by the Bolsheviks. Prince Philip was then one of two living great-grandchildren in the female line of Alexandra's mother Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, the other being his sister Sophie, who died in 2001.
Princess Alice of Battenberg, later Princess Andrew of Greece and Denmark (Victoria Alice Elizabeth Julia Marie; 25 February 1885 – 5 December 1969) was the mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and mother-in-law of Elizabeth II.
In 1930, she was diagnosed with schizophrenia and committed to a sanatorium; thereafter, she lived separately from her husband. After her recovery, she devoted most of her remaining years to charity work in Greece. She stayed in Athens during the Second World War, sheltering Jewish refugees, for which she is recognised as "Righteous Among the Nations" at Yad Vashem. After the war, she stayed in Greece and founded an Orthodox nursing order of nuns known as the Christian Sisterhood of Martha and Mary.
The Queen has arrived at a Cambridgeshire hospital to visit the Duke of Edinburgh, after he was treated for a blocked coronary artery.
The Monarch arrived by helicopter near Papworth Hospital shortly before 11am and was then ferried by vehicle to the cardiothoracic unit.
The Queen's husband was taken to hospital last night after suffering chest pains, and following tests the blocked artery was discovered by doctors.
He underwent an "invasive procedure of coronary stenting", which was declared a success.
In a brief statement this morning, Buckingham Palace gave an update on Philip's condition, saying "the Duke of Edinburgh has had a good night".
Sky's Paul Harrison On Duke's Procedure
He was flown from Sandringham House in Norfolk, where the royal family is gathering to celebrate Christmas.
The palace said the prince would remain in hospital under observation for "a short period".
Consultant cardiologist Dr Iqbal Malik said that it appeared the Duke probably was having a heart attack which the specialist hospital "successfully aborted".
Dr David Lloyd told Sky News patients can be released quite quickly following the procedure, which only requires a local anaesthetic.
He said: "It all depends on complications, but yes, if it's a straightforward thing you can be out the next day."
Dr Lloyd said of the procedure: "It looks simple, but in fact it's incredibly clever. I mean the fact that it is able to expand the artery and then stay expanded, and then the tissue grows over the top of it once it's sitting in there, is a really magnificent thing.
"It's the culmination of years and years and years of research to produce these remarkable stems."
Sky News royal correspondent Paul Harrison said: "There will be a lot of relief, especially as his very closest and more extended family are gathering at Sandringham."
The 90-year-old's most recent illness was a cold in October that forced him to pull out of an overnight stay in Italy for the launch of the ARC Green Pilgrimage Network.
He had just completed a busy 11-day official tour to Australia with the Queen - who is 85 - that saw them visit Perth, Melbourne, Canberra and Brisbane.
The Queen and Prince Philip have a busy year ahead of them with events to mark the 60th anniversary of her accession to the throne.
In recognition of his advancing age, it was announced the Duke would step down as president or patron of more than a dozen organisations before he turned 90 in June.
This ChristMass Message by the Dame-Knight of Malta hidden Catholick Queen that contains contradictions and exposes her hidden fears now that her Philip is in the hospital effectively wiping out his career of evil as hidden master behind Elizabeth II as her Dominant and her as his Submissive Vessel of his Will through her in Occult Black Nobility BDSM Magicke since 1953. (See articles on the "Tavern of Ruin" Occultism of the Black Nobility to understand the meaning of this with Part 2 and Part 3 soon.)Watch these parts of the video and look into Elizabeth II's eyes and watch her face... one very fearful and upset Submissive Vessel in private fears over the loss of her Dominant Master who has Ruled behind her and THROUGH her physically in Occult Projection of Satanic Occult Will in the Blackest of Magicke Systems going back to Babylon and Nimrod and Semiraamis who Ruled through her sonny boyyy Nimrod then son Tammuz also in private fear of God after the ruin of their Tower of Babel plot and changing their occult to hidden Mystery Rites Religion that exists to this day among the Elites...
3:28 the Commonwealth of 53 Nations=Colonies of the Crown Corp.
See 4:23 on and Prince Philip standing in FRONT OF THE QUEEN on the balcony proud daddy in Red like William in Red there while Charles in BLACK stands on far end of balcony by Chlamydia Porker Bowels his arm candy wife to hide his gay sodomite ways...
5:07 Black Nobility Satanism as Queen Elizabeth II blasphemes Jesus to say He was born into fear and that angels came to frighten shepherds (???) with "hope in their voices"
And of course the Un-Edited Queen's Speech since the Speech video was blocked as "Private" against being seen here... so we uploaded it plus this as Bonus to the Bogus...
Duke Of Edinburgh Prince Philip In Hospital Over Christmas
The Duke of Edinburgh is expected to remain in hospital today, where he is recuperating following treatment for a blocked coronary artery.
Philip, 90, was spending a second night at Papworth Hospital near Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, having undergone the coronary stent procedure.
Buckingham Palace said Philip had a "good night" following Friday's surgery and was "eager to leave".
He is expected to remain under observation for a short period but no further details have been given about when he will be discharged.
It is thought to be the first time the Duke will miss the Christmas morning service at Sandringham, the Queen's private Norfolk estate, which has become an annual tradition for the Royal Family since the early 1990s.
A large media presence is expected at Sandringham today when the Queen and her family make the short journey to St Mary Magdalene Church on the royal estate, where they are spending Christmas.
Buckingham Palace has said the service will go ahead as planned and no changes to the family's celebrations are expected.
The royals will wake to find stockings filled with small gifts and fruit at the foot of their beds.
Back at the house after the church service, lunch is served at 1pm and the family enjoys a giant turkey, reared at Sandringham.
One of the highlights of the day is undoubtedly when the royals gather around a television to watch the monarch's traditional Christmas broadcast.
This year, the monarch talks about the importance of family in the message which was recorded on December 9, two weeks before her husband was taken ill.
The Queen leaves the room and lets her family watches the national address without her.
The festive weekend will also see the Duchess of Cambridge spending her first Christmas as a member of the Royal Family.
Philip was said to be in "good spirits" yesterday as he was visited in hospital by family members, including the Queen and the Prince of Wales.
The Earl of Wessex, the Princess Royal, the Duke of York and the Duchess of Cornwall also visited the Duke's bedside.
The Queen was flown to Papworth yesterday from Sandringham.
The royal helicopter touched down near the hospital and the visitors were driven in a convoy of two Range Rovers and a third car.
The royal party returned to the helicopter after the 45-minute visit and was flown away shortly before midday, although the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall travelled separately.
Philip was taken to the specialist heart hospital on Friday night after complaining of chest pains, and, following tests, a blocked artery was discovered by doctors.
He underwent a "minimally invasive procedure of coronary stenting", which was declared a success. Papworth describes itself as the UK's largest specialist cardiothoracic hospital and the country's main heart and lung transplant centre and carries out 2,500 stent procedures a year.
Dr Simon Davies, consultant intervention cardiologist at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London, said Philip may have been on the verge of a heart attack or could actually have suffered one before the stenting procedure was performed.
Dr Davies said: "What they have done is they put a miniature sausage-shaped balloon down the artery, pushed the balloon into the narrowed section and then blown it up.
"That forces the material that is blocking the artery outwards and then gets the blood flowing down the artery again.
"The stent is like a little metal sleeve fitted over the balloon when it is blown up.
"This metallic sleeve is opened up and then when the balloon is deflated and withdrawn the stent stays behind."
This is the most serious health scare suffered by the Duke, who is known for being a robust and active 90-year-old.
Although it is not known how long he will be in hospital, medical experts have said that many patients can be discharged a day after undergoing the procedure, providing there are no complications.
If he makes good progress he could be back among the Royal Family for the Boxing Day shoot, which he was reportedly supposed to be leading.
The Bishop of Ely, the Rt Revd Stephen Conway, began his address at the Midnight Mass at Ely Cathedral today by sending prayers and good wishes to the Queen and the Duke.
He told the congregation: "Our first thought tonight is for Prince Philip, in hospital in the diocese. We pray for him and for Her Majesty the Queen and the whole Royal Family."
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Here is one first actions of the EU and UK Black Nobility through their Agent Shill, Druid Freemason/33rd Degree Freemason Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, to present a crisis with subliminal intent of the Black Nobility in Succession and soon Kingship with subtle naming of Philip and Elizabeth II in couched Masonic Gnostic talk as that source of evil indicting them for crimes, and Hegelian Dialectic of:
Problem>Response>Solution
The Solution Meaning of Succession for Prince William to hurry and assume command as King Arthur with Kate as Guinevere to come and fix the problem in the UK Commonwealth including UK Colony of the United States of America under British Admiralty Law as Corporate lackey, and the EU and World. http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2011/12/25/archbishop-of-canterbury-rowan-wil...
Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams' Christmas Message
The Archbishop of Canterbury spoke today of the "broken bonds and abused trust" in a British society torn apart by riots and financial speculation.
Delivering his Christmas Day sermon from Canterbury Cathedral, Rowan Williams asked the congregation to learn lessons about "mutual obligation" from the events of the past year.
"The most pressing question we now face, we might well say, is who and where we are as a society. Bonds have been broken, trust abused and lost."
"Whether it is an urban rioter mindlessly burning down a small shop that serves his community, or a speculator turning his back on the question of who bears the ultimate cost for his acquisitive adventures in the virtual reality of today's financial world, the picture is of atoms spinning apart in the dark," he said.
It is not the first time the Archbishop has referred to last August's disturbances, which spread from Tottenham, north London, to cities across the country.
Writing in The Guardian this month, Dr Williams spoke about the "enormous sadness" he felt during the riots.
But he also said the Government should do more to rescue young people "who think they have nothing to lose".
The Church of England has also been caught up in the struggle between anti-capitalist protesters camped in front of St Paul's Cathedral since October and the Corporation of London, which is fighting a legal battle to disband the campsite.
After the Church initially gave support to the protesters, the canon chancellor of St Paul's, Dr Giles Fraser, resigned from his position on October 27 following reports suggesting a rift between clergy over what action to take concerning the activists.
And Dr Williams suggested last month he was sympathetic to a "Robin Hood tax" on share and currency transactions.
Today he used the Book of Common Prayer - which will celebrate its 350th anniversary next year - as an example of how ideas of duty and common interest can be expressed.
The archbishop quoted the Book of Common Prayer's Long Exhortation to say: "If ye shall perceive your offences to be such as are not only against God but also against your neighbours; then ye shall reconcile yourselves unto them; being ready to make restitution".
Prince Philip King Edward VIII Prince George, Duke of Kent Gordonstoun School Royal Nazis part 2 In Reflections at ‘My family, my father and mother’ I note that my father introduced Prince George’s son Prince Michael of Kent into Free Masonry. Not so well known is that British Intelligence removed Prince George, Prince Michael’s father, and the King’s brother, via a staged plane accident. Prince George was not only a prominent listed in the ‘the Red Book’ but perceived to be a central figure in a British Nazi conspriracy against his brother, the King, and Churchill. The information sources for the article below is derived from personal knowledge, information from British intelligence and Russian intelligence -- who secured most of their information from Anthony Blunt -- a homosexual confidant of Prince George. Nor is Nazi or ultra right wing thinking absent from the current Scottish scene for Richard, the son of Mr Ian Smith (as per the Lady Smith essay), and a recent ex pupil from Gordonstoun, happily testifies that right wing thoughts still permeate the schools teaching philosophy. One of the biggest public relations hoaxes ever perpetrated by the British Crown, is that King Edward VIII, who abdicated the throne in 1938, due to his support for the Nazis, was a ``black sheep,'' an aberration in an otherwise unblemished Windsor line. Nothing could be further from the truth. The British monarchy, and the City of London's leading Crown bankers, enthusiastically backed Hitler and the Nazis, bankrolled the Führer's election, and did everything possible to build the Nazi war machine, for Britain's planned geopolitical war between Germany and Russia. Support for Nazi-style genocide has always been at the heart of House of Windsor policy, and long after the abdication of Edward VIII, the Windsors maintained their direct Nazi links. So, when Prince Philip, co-founder with Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), tells an interviewer that he hopes to be ``reincarnated as a deadly virus'' to help solve the ``population problem,'' he is just ``doin' what comes naturally'' for any scion of the Anglo-Dutch oligarchy. To get beyond the soap opera stuff and truly understand the Windsors today, it is useful to start with Prince Philip. Not only was he trained in the Hitler Youth curriculum, but his German brothers-in-law, with whom he lived, all became high-ranking figures in the Nazi Party. Before his family was forced into exile, Prince Philip had been in line of succession to the Greek throne, established after a British-run coup against the son of King Ludwig of Bavaria, who became King Otto I of the Hellenes. Having dispatched King Otto in 1862, London ran a talent search for a successor, which resulted in the selection of Prince William, the son of the designated heir and nephew to the Danish king, Crown Prince Christian. In 1862, Prince William of the Danes was installed as King George I of Greece, and married a granddaughter of Czar Nicholas I in 1866. Prince Philip is a grandson of Queen Victoria, and he is related to most of the current and former crowned heads of Europe, including seven czars. The marriages of Prince Philip's sisters definitely strengthened the German aristocratic ties. During 1931-1932, Philip's four older sisters married as follows:
Margarita to a Czech-Austrian prince named Gottfried von Hohenlohe-Langenburg, a great-grandson of England's Queen Victoria;
Theodora to Berthold, the margrave of Baden;
Cecilia to Georg Donatus, grand duke of Hesse-by-Rhine, also a great-grandson of Queen Victoria;
and, Sophie to Prince Christoph of Hesse.
Three of Philip's brothers-in-law were part of a group of German aristocrats who were Anglophile and pro-Nazi at the same time, and who remain a subversive force in Germany to this day. Enter Prince Bernhard His Royal Highness Prince Bernhard, royal consort to Queen Juliana of the Netherlands and father of Queen Beatrix, co-founded and became the first head of the World Wildlife Fund (now the World Wide Fund for Nature) in October 1961. When the Lockheed scandal forced Prince Bernhard to resign from his most important public functions in 1971, he was replaced by Prince Philip. Prince Bernhard, like Prince Philip, whom he recruited to the eco-fascist cause, had strong roots in the Nazi movement. In fact, the whole House of Orange did: Queen Wilhelmina, mother of the future Queen Juliana, married a right-wing playboy who begged for money for Hitler; Juliana married an SS man (Prince Bernhard); and, Queen Juliana's daughter Beatrix married a former member of Hitler Youth. Prince Bernhard first became interested in the Nazis in 1934, during his last year of study at the University of Berlin. He was recruited by a member of the Nazi intelligence services, but first worked openly in the motorized SS. Bernhard went to Paris to work for the firm IG Farben, which pioneered Nazi Economics Minister Hjalmar Schacht's slave labour camp system by building concentration camps to convert coal into synthetic gasoline and rubber. Bernhard's role was to conduct espionage on behalf of the SS. According to the April 5, 1976 issue of Newsweek, this role, as part of a special SS intelligence unit in IG Farbenindustrie, had been revealed in testimony at the Nuremberg trials. When Bernhard left the SS to marry the future Queen Juliana, he signed his letter of resignation to Adolf Hitler, ``Heil Hitler!'' William Hoffman writes in his book Queen Juliana:
``Tensions [over the marriage] were not cooled when ... Adolf Hitler forwarded his own congratulatory message. The newspaper Het Volk editorialized that `it would be better if the future Queen had found a consort in some democratic country rather than in the Third Reich.'''
This is the man who recruited Prince Philip to eco-facism, but Prince Philip's Nazi roots had been laid much earlier. Hitler Youth and Universal Fascism Through the influence of his sister Theodora, young Philip was sent to the German school near Lake Constantine that had been founded by Berthold's father, Max von Baden, working through his long-time personal secretary, Kurt Hahn. During World War I, Prince Max von Baden had been chancellor, while the Oxford-trained Hahn first served as head of the Berlin Foreign Ministry's intelligence desk, then as special adviser to Prince Max in the Versailles Treaty negotiations. Von Baden and Hahn set up a school in a wing of Schloss Salem, employing a combination of monasticism and the Nazis' ``strength-through-joy'' system. At first a supporter of the Nazis, Hahn, who was part Jewish, soon got into trouble with the SS, and came to support the more centrist elements of the Nazi Party. What Hahn really had become is what Henry Kissinger's friend, Michael Ledeen has termed a ``universal fascist,'' in the sense of Vladimir Jabotinsky, Count Coudenhove-Kalergi, the Strasser brothers, and other fascists whom the hard-core Nazis would have no dealings with.
Gordonstoun School
Although Hahn's powerful connections permitted him to escape the concentration camps, he was forced to leave the school he founded in Germany before Philip's arrival there, and established a new school in Scotland, called Gordonstoun. It would play a major role in rearing all the male children of Queen Elizabeth II and Philip. When Philip arrived at Hahn's school in Schloss Salem, it was in control of the Hitler Youth and the Nazi Party, and the curriculum had become Nazi ``race science.'' Hahn became an adviser to the Foreign Office in London, urging policies of appeasement based upon appeals to the ``centrist'' Nazis. Philip's Relatives Work for the SS The husband of Philip's sister Sophie, Prince Christoph, was embraced by the Nazis, who saw him as a channel to the appeasement faction in Britain epitomized by King Edward VIII. Joining the Nazi Party in 1933, by 1935 Prince Christoph was chief of the Forschungsamt (directorate of scientific research), a special intelligence operation run by Hermann Göring, and he was also Standartenführer (colonel) of the SS on Heinrich Himmler's personal staff. The Forschungsamt used electronic intelligence-gathering methods to police the Nazi Party, while working with the Gestapo against the Catholic Church, the Jews, and labour organizations. When rumours of homosexuality spread against Capt. Ernst Roehm of the Stormtroopers, Himmler turned to the Forschungsamt's eavesdroppers, and ordered the ``Night of the Long Knives'' as a result. The eldest of Prince Christoph and Sophie's children was named Karl Adolf, after Hitler. Later, Prince Philip would promote his education. Prince Christoph's brother, Philip of Hesse, married a daughter of the King of Italy, and became the official liaison between the Nazi and Fascist regimes. Four years after Prince Philip left Schloss Salem to attend Gordonstoun Academy in Scotland, on Nov. 16, 1937, Philip learned that his sister Cecilia and her husband Georg Donatus, hereditary grand duke of Hesse-by-Rhine, had crashed in one of Göring's Junker aircraft on a trip to London for George's brother's wedding. According to the magazine Private Eye, the funeral became a gathering point for leading Nazis and their appeasers. Prince Philip himself developed secretive ties with King Edward VIII, continuing after Edward was deposed in 1938. In fact, one of the central figures in the 1930s Nazi-British back-channel was Philip's uncle and sponsor, Lord Louis Mountbatten (originally, Battenberg, a branch of the House of Hesse). Until he was forced to abdicate, King Edward VIII enjoyed the full backing of ``Dickie'' Mountbatten. Through much of World War II, secret channels of communication were maintained between the British royal family and their pro-Hitler cousins in Germany, by Lord Mountbatten, through his sister Louise, who was crown princess of pro-Nazi Sweden. Louise was Prince Philip's aunt. Although Buckingham Palace's rumour mill has tried to depict this wartime collaboration with the enemy as mere family correspondence, the channel apparently included messages from Prince Philip's secret ally, the Duke of Windsor (the former Edward VIII). On Nov. 20, 1995, the Washington Times reported, based on recently discovered Portuguese Secret Service files first published in the London Observer, that the Duke of Windsor had been in close collaboration with the Nazis in Spain and Portugal to foment a revolution in wartime Britain, that would topple the Churchill government, depose his brother King George VI, and allow him to regain the throne, with Queen Wallis [Simpson, the American divorcée, for whom he abdicated the throne] at his side. Portuguese surveillance revealed that Walter Schellenberg, head of Gestapo counterintelligence, was one point of contact in this plot. After Schellenberg met with the Spanish ambassador to Portugal, Nicolás Franco, brother of fascist Gen. Francisco Franco, Ambassador Franco told a Portuguese diplomat: ``The Duke of Windsor, free from the responsibilities of the war, in disagreement with English politicians, could be the man to put at the head of the Empire.'' Whatever correspondence was hidden in Sophie and Prince Christoph's Kronberg Castle, King George VI, in June 1945, felt compelled to dispatch the former MI-5 officer turned ``Surveyor of the King's Pictures,'' Anthony Blunt, to gather up the correspondence. Queen Elizabeth II reportedly insisted that there be no interrogation of Blunt about his secret trip to the castle. Otherwise, it is notable that starting with an exchange between King George VI and President Eisenhower, the House of Windsor has been desperate to keep classified those documents from Kronberg Castle that fell into American Army hands, long beyond the normal length of time. Clearly, Prince Philip's patron Lord Dickie Mountbatten, Mountbatten's sister Crown Princess Louise, and Philip's brother-in-law Prince Christoph of Hesse were not just exchanging Christmas greetings.
Prince George, Duke of Kent (1902 – 1942)
His Royal Highness The Prince George, Duke of Kent (George Edward Alexander Edmund von Wettin, later Windsor) (20 December 1902 - 25 August 1942) was the fourth son of King George V of the United Kingdom and Queen Mary. He was the father of the current Duke of Kent, Princess Alexandra, the Honourable Lady Ogilvy, and Prince Michael of Kent. Prince George was born at York Cottage, Sandringham House, near King's Lynn, Norfolk, England, to the then Prince and Princess of Wales. At the time of his birth, he was styled "HRH Prince George of Wales". From his father's ascension to the throne on 6 May 1910 until his creation as Duke of Kent on 12 October 1934, he was styled "HRH The Prince George". He became a Knight of the Order of the Garter (KG) at age 21. He received the Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) in 1924 and the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (GCMG) in 1934. In 1935, he became a Knight of the Thistle (KT) and two years later he became a member of the Privy Council. Prince George received his early education from a tutor and then followed his elder brother Prince Henry (later the Duke of Gloucester) to St. Peter's Court Preparatory School at Broadstairs in Kent. At age thirteen, like his brothers Prince Edward (later Edward VIII) and Prince Albert (later George VI) before him, he went to naval college, first at Osborne and later at Dartmouth. He remained in the Royal Navy until 1929, serving on the HMS Iron Duke and later the HMS Nelson. After leaving the navy, he briefly held posts at the Foreign Office and later the Home Office, becoming the first member of the British Royal Family to work as a civil servant. At the start of World War II, he returned to active military service at the rank of Rear Admiral, briefly serving on the Intelligence Division of the Admiralty. In April, 1940, he transferred to the Royal Air Force. He temporarily relinquished his rank as Air Vice-Marshal (the equivalent of Rear Admiral) to assume the post of Staff Officer in the RAF Training Command at the rank of Air Commodore. The Duke also was a designer of some note, trying his hand at furniture, jewelry, and the like. On 29 November 1934, the Duke of Kent married Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, the daughter of Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark and a great niece of Queen Alexandra, at Westminster Abbey. It was the last marriage between a son of a British Sovereign and a member of a foreign royal house to date. Dismissed by one observer as cultivated, effeminate, and smelling too strongly of perfume, the Duke of Kent had a long string of affairs with men and women before and during his marriage. The better known of his partners were black cabaret singer Florence Mills, banking heiress Poppy Baring, Ethel Margaret Whigham (later Duchess of Argyll), musical star Jessie Matthews and actor Noel Coward, with whom he carried on a 19-year affair. (Love letters from the Duke to Coward were stolen from Coward's house in 1942). There is some suggestion that the duke had an affair with Indira Raje, the Maharani of Cooch Behar (1892-1968), in the late 1920s, according to British historian Lucy Moore. He also is said to have been addicted to drugs (notably morphine and cocaine) and reportedly was blackmailed by a male prostitute to whom he wrote intimate letters. Another of his reported homosexual affairs was with his distant cousin Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia; spy and art historian Anthony Blunt was another lover. Much of this history was outlined in "The Queen's Lost Uncle", a documentary film that aired on Britain's Channel 4 in 2003. The Duke's bisexuality and drug addictions were explored in "African Nights", a 2004 play written by American playwright Jeffrey Corrick. In addition to his legitimate children, the Duke is said to have had a son by Kiki Preston (née Alice Gwynne) (1898-1946), an American socialite whom he reportedly shared in a ménage à trois with Jorge Ferrara, the bisexual son of the Argentine ambassador to the Court of St. James's. Known as "the girl with the silver syringe", drug addict Preston, a cousin of railroad heiress Gloria Vanderbilt, was married first to Horace R.B. Allen and then, in 1925, to banker Jerome Preston. She died after jumping out of a window of the Stanhope Hotel in New York City. According to the memoirs of a friend, Loelia Westminster, Prince George's brother the Duke of Windsor believed that the son was Michael Canfield (1926-1969), the adopted son of American publisher Cass Canfield and the first husband of Lee Radziwill (sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis). The Duke of Kent was killed in a plane crash on active service in World War II at Eagles Rock near Dunbeath, Caithness, Scotland. His wife had given birth to their third child, Prince Michael of Kent, only six weeks earlier. He was initially buried in St. George's Chapel, Windsor, England: his remains were later moved to the royal burial ground, adjacent to Queen Victoria's mausoleum, at Frogmore, Windsor, England. He was succeeded as Duke of Kent by his elder son, Edward. Anthony Blunt Anthony Frederick Blunt (September 26, 1907 - March 26, 1983) was an English art historian and the "Fourth Man" of the Cambridge Five, a group of spies working for the Soviet Union during the Cold War. He was born in Bournemouth, where his father had been a vicar. He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduated in 1930, and became a teacher of French. He became a Fellow of the college in 1932, and in 1965 was Slade Professor of Fine Art in Cambridge. He was a member of the Cambridge Apostles, a secret society which at that time was Marxist, formed from members of Cambridge University. He was also a homosexual and close aide of Guy Burgess. After visiting Russia in 1933, he was recruited by the NKVD (forerunner of the KGB) in 1934. He joined the British Army in 1939 and in 1940 was recruited to MI5, the military intelligence department, where he had access to Ultra intelligence from decoded Enigma messages. After the war he became director of the Courtauld Institute of Art (1947-1974) In 1945 he became Surveyor of the King's Pictures, and retained the post under Queen Elizabeth II, for which work he was knighted in 1956. He retained the post until 1972. He was particularly knowledgeable on the works of Nicolas Poussin. MI5 learned of his espionage in 1963 from an American, Michael Straight, whom he had unsuccessfully tried to recruit. Blunt confessed to MI5 on April 23, 1964, but his spying career remained an official secret until he was publicly named by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in 1979. His knighthood was immediately revoked, followed by his honorary fellowship of Trinity College. According to MI5 papers released in 2002, the organization was told by writer Lady Moura Budberg in 1950 that Blunt was a member of the Communist Party, but the information was ignored. He was the brother of writer Wilfrid Jasper Walter Blunt and of numismatist Christopher Evelyn Blunt. See also: Royal Family member blackmailed over drugs and sex Royal Nazis - part 2
George I of Britain was German. He spoke only in German. The British used German troops to attempt to suppress the colonist rebels in the American War of Independence. Queen Victoria married a German. Had it not been for Churchill the British Royal family would still be known by a German name -- in short, the British Royal family is thoroughly Germanic. But in being of German stock – does that make the British Royal family Nazis? There is an assumption that on account of its German pedigree the British Royal family had or has Nazi sympathies. The truth is much blacker. The British Royal family did act as one of the conduits of anti-Semitic and racial ideas, yet not from Germany to Britain but in the other direction, namely from Britain to Germany. The current British family caught their Nazi ideology not from Germany but from the British establishment. For centuries the British establishment, and especially the Scottish dimension, were (and still are) imbued in ideas of superiority and racial dominance. Such ideas found fertile ground in Europe – witness the unification of Germany and Italy during the 19th century. ‘Might equates to right’. That is a basic national socialist idea – borrowed and corrupted from British aristocrat thought. Simply put – Hitler and his cronies admired the British Empire and sought to emulate and ‘improve upon’ those ideas and the raison d’etre of that Empire’s existence. On this website I recount some of the joined up thinking of Nazi sympathisers. In ‘On Royal Nazis and the Scottish connection’ there is a useful summary of Prince Philip; King Edward VIII; Prince George, Duke of Kent; and Gordonstoun School. Yes – Gordonstoun School, the same place where the current King in waiting, Prince Charles, was educated. In ‘On Why Judges?’ there is a helpful précis of Nazi sympathies in the British establishment during the Second World War and I recount the influence of the Right Club and the importance of the ‘Red Book’ noting the transcript from the Debate in the House of Commons (12th October, 1944): ‘Tom Driberg asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will now publish the complete list of members of the Right Club, the activities of which were the subject of police enquiries. Herbert Morrison: No, Sir. For reasons which I have explained on a previous occasion I do not think that it would be fair or in the public interest to publish this list, but I can give an assurance that appropriate steps are taken to watch any individual against whom there are grounds of suspicion.’ In the article ‘Al Fayed is right?’ I suggest he is correct to have his concerns – yet hint that some in the British establishment, like many in the US, still carry anti-Semitic views – indeed there appears to be a prevalent generalisation now that a Jew is a good Semite, while a Moslem (Arab) is dubious. Again the article ‘On Princess Diana’s Death’ I relate my current understanding upon what the UK establishment may or may not be capable of. Too often we are blind to the obvious. My article ‘Plot to overthrow Labour Government’ attracted a little attention. Yet Prince Philip was a leading light in that scenario. He remains the Queen of the Commonwealth’s consort. There still remains a wish in many quarters to secure an Anglo-Saxon hegemony for this world – such I will write on later but in the meantime I leave you with another thought provoking article taken from ‘Ynet News’.
Prince Philip: We were jealous of Jews Taken from Ynet News 2006-03-06
Queen Elizabeth's husband admits family had 'inhibitions about Jews,' sympathized with Nazis early on. Queen Elizabeth II’s husband, Prince Philip, broke a long silence about his family link to the Nazis, Britain’s Daily Mail reported on Monday.In a rare interview, the prince said his family found Hitler’s plans to bring Germany at the helm of European power were “attractive” and admitted they had “inhibitions about the Jews.”
The comments were published in a book called “Royals and the Reich,” which describes the German royalty’s acquiescence to the Nazis. The book, written by American historian Jonathan Petropoulos, includes pictures never published before. One picture from 1937 shows Prince Philip aged 16 with relatives at his sister Cecile’s funeral in dressed in SS and Brownshirt uniforms. Lord Mountbatten, his uncle, is seen wearing a German Navy hat. Another photograph shows his sister Sophia sitting opposite Hitler at the wedding of Hermann and Emmy Groening, the Daily Mail said.
'Trains ran on time' The 84-year-old Philip told Petropoulos about his family’s sympathy to the Nazis: “There was a great improvement in things like trains running on time and building. There was a sense of hope after the depressing chaos of the Weimar Republic. “I can understand people latching on to be something or somebody who appeared to be appealing to their patriotism and trying to get things going. You can understand how attractive it was.”
He added that there was ‘a lot of enthusiasm for the Nazis at the time, the economy was good, we were anti-Communist and who knew what was going to happen to the regime?’ Philip said that he was never ‘conscious of anybody in the family actually expressing anti-Semitic views,’ but acknowledged that that there were ‘inhibitions about the Jews’ and ‘jealousy of their success.’
Philip was born Prince of Greece and Denmark on Corfu in 1921, the youngest of five children and the only son of Prince Andrew of Greece and Princess Alice of Battenberg. Three of his sisters – Sophie, Cecile, and Margarita – became members of the Nazi party. All his sisters married German princes. Sophie’s husband, Prince Christoph of Hesse, became the head of the secret intelligence service in Germany under Goering.
Philip fought for the Allies in WWII and married the young princess Elizabeth in 1947. She was crowned Queen of England in 1953. Although his sisters and brothers-in-law are now dead, he keeps in touch with his German relatives.
On Dec. 11, 1936, King Edward VIII gave up the British throne to marry Wallis Simpson, a twice-divorced American. Years later, the FBI investigated the couple’s links to Germany’s Nazi regime.
In 1941, the FBI began close surveillance of the duke and duchess after it was informed that the couple were being used by the Nazis to pass on secrets that could wreck the Allied war effort. A prime suspect, the FBI was told, was Joachim von Ribbentrop, then the Nazis’ foreign minister, who was said to have been the duchess' lover when he was ambassador to Britain in 1936.
Edward’s long-rumored ties to Nazi Germany became common knowledge after the release in 2003 of papers compiled by U.S. naval intelligence agents asserting that Hitler saw the former king as a friend, even in the middle of World War II. The papers had remained secret for fear they would upset the Queen Mother, who died in 2002 aged 101. On Dec. 11, 1936, King Edward VIII gave up the British throne to marry Wallis Simpson, a twice-divorced American. Years later, the FBI investigated the couple’s links to Germany’s Nazi regime. ~Source Of course, as it turns out, Edward VIII was also a Catholic Knight of Malta like many Nazi Nobility were.
Prince Philip walking in Nazi Funeral procession
“If I were reincarnated, I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.” - Prince Philip (Charles’ father) ~ Source
Prince Philip has broken a 60-year public silence about his family's links with the Nazis.
In a frank interview, he said they found Hitler's attempts to restore Germany's power and prestige 'attractive' and admitted they had 'inhibitions about the Jews'.
The revelations come in a book about German royalty kowtowing to the Nazis, which features photographs never published in the UK.
They include one of Philip aged 16 at the 1937 funeral of his elder sister Cecile, flanked by relatives in SS and Brownshirt uniforms.
One row back in the cortege in Darmstadt, western Germany, was his uncle, Lord Mountbatten, wearing a Royal Navy bicorn hat.
Another picture shows his youngest sister, Sophia, sitting opposite Hitler at the wedding of Hermann and Emmy Goering.
Explaining the attraction of the Nazis, 84-year-old Prince Philip told an American academic: "There was a great improvement in things like trains running on time and building. There was a sense of hope after the depressing chaos of the Weimar Republic.
"I can understand people latching on to something or somebody who appeared to be appealing to their patriotism and trying to get things going. You can understand how attractive it was."
He added that there was 'a lot of enthusiasm for the Nazis at the time, the economy was good, we were anti-Communist and who knew what was going to happen to the regime?'
Philip stressed that he was never 'conscious of anybody in the family actually expressing anti-Semitic views'. But he went on to say there were 'inhibitions about the Jews' and 'jealousy of their success'.
Philip was born Prince of Greece and Denmark on Corfu in 1921, the youngest of five children and the only son of Prince Andrew of Greece and Princess Alice of Battenberg. All four of his sisters married German princes and three - Sophie, Cecile and Margarita - became members of the Nazi party.
Sophia's husband, Prince Christoph of Hesse, became chief of Goering's secret intelligence service and they were frequent guests at Nazi functions.
Philip went on to fight with distinction for the Allies in the Second World War before marrying the young Princess Elizabeth in 1947, five years before she became Queen. He served with the Royal Navy where, by 1945, he had risen to the rank of first lieutenant on a destroyer and was mentioned in despatches.
All of his sisters and brothers-in law are now dead but he keeps in contact with his German relatives.
His comments on the family's Nazi connections appear in Royals and the Reich, by Jonathan Petropoulos, to be published in Britain in May. Source
Prince Philip serves as a telling link between the modern day royal family and it’s despicable history. He has made so many racist remarks in public, that they literally fill an entire book.
In 1984 he asked a Kenyan woman “You are a woman, aren’t you?”.
In 1986 he told British students in China ”If you stay here much longer, you will go home with slitty eyes.”
In 1998, during a tour of Papua New Guinea, he told another British student, ”You managed not to get eaten then?”
While on a tour of a company near Edinburgh, Scotland, he saw a poorly wired fuse box. “It looks as though it was put in by an Indian,” he remarked.
During a small town visit in Scotland, in a brief conversation with a driving instructor, he asked, “How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the (road) test?”
In a 2002 visit to Australia, Prince Philip asked an Aborigine, “Still throwing spears?”
Also, he once told a group of deaf children standing near a Jamaican steel drum musician, “Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf.”
The list goes on and on. While the media often laugh the remarks off as “gaffes”, they take on a more serious nature when Philip’s background and the organizations he is involved with are more carefully examined.
It is well documentedthat Prince Philip’s sister, Sophia, was married to Christopher of Hesse-Cassel, an SS colonel who named his eldest son Karl Adolf in Hitler’s honour. Indeed, all four of Philip’s sisters married high-ranking Nazis. The prospect of the former Nazis and Nazi sympathisers attending his 1947 wedding to the future Queen of England meant he was allowed to invite only two guests.
Two years ago, more revelations of Philip’s Nazi links emerged in a book that featured never before published photographs of Philip aged 16 at the 1937 funeral of his elder sister Cecile, flanked by relatives in SS and Brownshirt uniforms.
Another picture shows his youngest sister, Sophia, sitting opposite Hitler at the wedding of Hermann and Emmy Goering. Philip was forced to concede that his family found Hitler’s attempts to restore Germany’s power and prestige ‘attractive’ and admitted they had ‘inhibitions about the Jews’.
Philip also helped start the World Wildlife Fund in 1961 with former Nazi SS Officer Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, who is closely affiliated with the founders of the Bilderberg international power group, and Sir Julian Huxley, Aldous Huxley’s brother, who was also the President of the British Eugenics Society.
In the past, Philip has also attended the ultra secretive ritualistic meeting of elites at Bohemian Grove, where he “stole the show” with an “amusing but salty speech” in 1962, according to the Grove’s own literature (pictured below).
Philip was also trained in the Hilter Youth. His belief in Nazi ideology is clear when one looks atwhat he has said on the subject of overpopulation.
In the foreword to his 1986 book If I Were an Animal, Prince Philip wrote, “In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation.”
Borrowing the idea from American scientists who pioneered the field in the 1930′s, the Nazis advanced the pseudo-science of eugenics and incorporated it into Adolf Hitler’s dream of the Aryan super-race. Bearing in mind Philip’s Nazi connections, his views on the subject of overpopulation are unsurprising, but shocking nonetheless.
Just last year he reiterated these views, announcing that there are too many people in the world, and attacking large families in a television interview, despite the fact that Prince Philip himself has four children and eight grandchildren.
Cobina Wright, who has died aged 90, was the stunning American cover girl and actress whom the young Prince Philip fell for in Venice in the summer of 1938.
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Cobina Wright (right) with actor George Montgomery and Gloria VanderbiltPhoto: AP
She was born on August 14 1921 in New York City, where her father, William May Wright, was a successful stockbroker. Her mother, also Cobina Wright, was an opera singer and actress notorious for her social ambition: Hardy Amies quipped that she took her alpenstock with her to parties.
By the mid-1930s Cobina Snr’s hopes were firmly pinned on her beautiful young daughter, whom she frantically set about grooming for a film career capped by a spectacular marriage. When Mr Wright complained about what he saw as the “prostitution” of their daughter, his wife promptly divorced him.
By 1938 Cobina Jnr, pushed along by her mother, was already under contract with 20th Century Fox, while also modelling and singing in nightclubs. That summer her mother took her to Venice, and at Harry’s Bar she met Prince Philip of Greece. She later recalled that, on seeing the handsome young prince, her mother had “shoved” her into his arms.
The period before their meeting had been a particularly traumatic one for Prince Philip, who was still mourning his 26-year-old sister Cecile and her family, who had died in a plane crash the previous November, and also his much-loved uncle and guardian George Milford Haven (Louis Mountbatten’s less flashy elder brother), who had died that spring aged 44.
Invited to Venice by his “Aunt” Aspasia of Greece (who had lived there ever since the death of her husband, King Alexander, Philip’s first cousin, from blood poisoning after a monkey bite), the young prince relished the opportunity to let his hair down after such a harrowing year. His father had pleaded with Aspasia beforehand to “keep him out of girl trouble”, as he still had the entrance exams to Dartmouth to pass; yet Aspasia’s daughter, Alexandra, later remembered that he “gallantly and impartially” squired a succession of “blondes, brunettes and redhead charmers”.
He was showered with invitations from Venetian society hostesses, and at each gathering, wrote Alexandra, “there was invariably some lovely young thing in tulle or organdie” to whom Philip offered a ride home. “No need to keep the driver, Auntie Aspasia,” he would say, “I’ll take over. The boatman’s had a long day.” Aspasia complied on condition that he came back within 20 minutes. Eventually, though, Cobina began to stand out from the rest, and Philip begged his aunt to be allowed to stay out in the boat a little longer. “Very well,” she agreed. “But you are to cruise round and round the island and don’t stop the engine! I shall be listening.” After three or four circuits the engine suddenly went silent and remained so for the next five minutes. When eventually they returned, Philip sheepishly explained that they had had “trouble with the sparking plugs”.
Cobina was two months younger than Philip (they both turned 17 that summer) and extremely pretty: tall, slim and blonde, with huge blue eyes and a radiant smile. He was, by common consent, “astronomically good-looking”. Even if their initial meeting had been engineered by Cobina Snr, there was evidently a strong mutual attraction.
Over the next three weeks Philip escorted Cobina around Venice, before following her back to London for another week with her there, “dining, dancing, and walking London’s streets, hand in hand”.
When mother and daughter left for America, he vowed to follow, and was said to have cried as he kissed the younger Cobina goodbye. Cobina’s friend, Gant Gaither, the Broadway producer, later maintained that Philip then wrote her “impassioned love letters. He said he planned to woo her to marriage, no matter what. He desperately wanted to marry her, but [in the end] Cobina Jnr just wasn’t all that interested.” Other friends later speculated that she did not want to go out with someone chosen for her by her pushy mother.
Back in New York, however, Cobina Snr’s promotion of her daughter continued unabated, and, thanks to her efforts, in 1939 Cobina Jnr was awarded the title of Miss Manhattan and named the “most attractive girl of the 1939 season”.
When Bob Hope used her as the basis for a spoilt character called Cobina on his radio programme, Cobina Snr filed a suit against him that was settled out of court. Cobina Jnr then became a regular guest on his programme, alongside Jerry Colonna, Brenda Frazier and Vera Vague.
In 1941, still under contract to 20th Century Fox, and by then residing in Beverly Hills, Cobina Jnr appeared in a number of films: Small Town Deb, with Jane Withers; as Jessica Gerald in Murder Among Friends, in which subscribers to a $200,000 insurance policy die one by one; Moon Over Miami (1941), about sisters Kay (Betty Grable) and Barbara (Carole Landis), who arrive in Miami from Texas looking for rich husbands; in Week-End in Havana (with Cesar Romero, Alice Faye and Carmen Miranda), about a shopgirl who falls for a shipping tycoon; and as one of the early murder victims in Charlie Chan in Rio.
The next year she made a further two films: Right to the Heart, with Brenda Joyce; and director Gregory Ratoff’s Footlight Serenade, with Betty Grable, John Payne, Jane Wyman and Victor Mature.
In November 1941, meanwhile, soon after featuring on the cover of Life magazine, Cobina had married 28-year-old Corporal Palmer T Beaudette, the scion of a wealthy automobile family from Pontiac, Michigan. He could not stand Cobina’s mother, and after a series of rows retired his wife from the screen in 1943.
Cobina Snr went on to appear in a bit-part in The Razor’s Edge (1946), based on the story by Somerset Maugham, but she became far better known in the 1950s as a syndicated gossip columnist and society hostess — her parties attracting the likes of Marilyn Monroe, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks Jnr, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and the Mountbattens. Cobina Jnr was often there too, minus her husband, but like him had by then taken to the bottle.
Following Palmer Beaudette’s death in 1968, she discovered that his share of his father’s estate reverted, under his father’s will, back to his brothers and sisters, and she was left all but penniless, a shock that hampered her own recovery from alcoholism. She did eventually manage to make progress, however, and subsequently devoted much of her time to volunteering in programmes for recovering alcoholics. She also served until recently on the board of the National Council on Alcoholism.
Cobina was often pressed on the subject of her romance with Prince Philip, most recently by the author Philip Eade for his book Young Prince Philip (2011), but she refused to go into any detail about their relationship, beyond that which she had already volunteered to the American Town and Country magazine in 1973: “I met him [Philip] in Venice and he followed me to London.”
She also revealed that in her bedroom she kept three photographs of “the three loves of my life” — one of them being Prince Philip. They were still “good friends”, she said, and wrote to each other often.
By a quirk of fate, Prince Philip’s son Prince Andrew was romantically linked to Cobina’s daughter, Cobina Caroline (nicknamed CC III), before his marriage to Sarah Ferguson in 1986.
Cobina Wright is survived by two sons and a daughter, and a stepdaughter from her husband’s first marriage.
Cobina Wright, born August 14 1921, died September 1 2011
The Duke of Edinburgh enjoyed a 'highly-charged' relationship with a beautiful aristocrat 25 years his junior, according to a highly authoritative biography.
The Duchess of Abercorn admitted to royal author Gyles Brandreth, a friend of Philip, that she had a 'passionate friendship' with him for more than 20 years, describing him as someone who 'needs a playmate'.
The book gives credence to rumours that the 83-year- old prince has been unfaithful to the Queen by quoting another aristocrat as saying he 'has had fullblown affairs, and more than one'.
Brandreth, a broadcaster, author and former Tory MP, was given unprecedented access to the royal household for his book, Philip & Elizabeth: Portrait of a Marriage.
His closeness to Philip suggests that the duke gave his tacit approval for the issue of his friendship with the duchess, as well as the nature of his relationship with other women such as his carriage driving partner Penny Romsey, to be explored in public.
It is thought that key figures in the book, including Sacha, Duchess of Abercorn, spoke candidly to Brandreth after they were given the go-ahead by Prince Philip, whose female friends have not in the past given interviews.
The duchess told Brandreth: 'Our friendship was very close', but added: 'I did not go to bed with him.
'It's complicated and at the same time it's quite simple. He needs a playmate and someone to share his intellectual pursuits.'
Asked if she thought Philip had slept with any of his other ' playmates', the 58-year- old duchess said: 'I doubt it very much. No, I'm sure not.
'But he's a human being. Who knows? I don't. Unless you are in the room with a lighted candle, who knows?'
Sacha Abercorn was first linked with Philip in 1987 when a newspaper published a picture of him, wearing only a towel, with his arm around her in a swimsuit.
According to Brandreth, they have also been seen holding hands at her holiday home in the Bahamas - something she did not deny.
Whilst Brandreth says in the book that he is satisfied with the
duchess's account, he nevertheless decides to quote royal biographer Viscountess Bangor, who uses the professional name Sarah Bradford, as saying: 'The Duke of Edinburgh has had affairs - yes, full-blown affairs and more than one.
'He has affairs and the Queen accepts it. I think she thinks that's how men are. Philip and Sacha Abercorn certainly had an affair. Without a doubt.'
In the book, published later this month, the Duchess of Abercorn recounts how her friendship with Philip began in the late 1960s with a conversation about the Swiss psychologist Carl Jung, in whom they had a shared interest.
'Prince Philip is always questing, exploring, searching for meaning, testing ideas. He asks the difficult questions and that's what drew me to him.
'Yes, he is practical, unsentimental and logical, but he is also emotional and intuitive. He is deeply sensitive. Deeply sensitive. His senses are so supercharged.'
Brandreth has interviewed Philip several times in the past, and has been used as a conduit for the prince to air his frustrations over such issues as his 'caricaturing' in the media and his uneasy relationship with the Duchess of York.
He is quoted by Brandreth as giving an outright denial of infidelity, saying: 'How could I? I've had a detective in my company, night and day, since 1947.' Penny Romsey, the glamorous 53-year- old blonde whose friendship with Philip has attracted perhaps the most gossip, is described by Brandreth as 'his playmate, not his mistress'.
Penny's mother-in-law Countess Mountbatten says in the book: 'Philip is a man who enjoys the company of attractive, intelligent younger women. He has special friends, like Penny. But I am absolutely certain he has never been unfaithful to the Queen.'
Brandreth debunks the commonly-held belief that the Queen and Prince Philip sleep in separate beds. He says the misconception began in 1982, when palace intruder Michael Fagan disturbed the Queen, who was alone in bed.
'The Queen and Prince Philip do share the same bed. It just happened that on the morning of Fagan's intrusion, Philip had a crack-of-dawn start for an outoftown official engagement and so spent the night in his own quarters.'
It was just one of those things, just one of those crazy flings ... a trip to the moon on gossamer wings ... just one of those things.'
The voice belting out Cole Porter's fatalistic lyric of lost love on a newly released double CD is that of a woman of the world - sensual, sophisticated, flirtatious.
It belongs to a celebrated star of whom the actress Patricia Hodge once wrote: 'She dominated the West End like a Colossus. Her presence in any restaurant would create a hush; in any nightclub would guarantee an entrance round of applause. Her every professional and social activity was newspaper worthy. She was a legend . . .'
Actress Pat Kirkwood always denied having an affair with Prince Philip
But legend or not, Pat Kirkwood lived for six decades under the cloud of suspicion that she had been the mistress of Prince Philip.
The more she denied the rumour, the more it was believed. Philip himself, adhering to the Royal Family's tradition of declining to comment on matters relating to their private lives, failed to come to her defence. He said nothing, one way or the other, despite her repeatedly imploring him to set the record straight.
And when she died almost exactly a year ago, after 60 distinguished years of stardom, during which she helped to rally the nation's morale in World War II, her life ended devoid of official recognition and without so much as a humble MBE.
Throughout the songs on this week's new CD, there are echoes of the royal saga that was to haunt her to her dying day.
Included is the song she sang on that fateful night in October 1948, when Pat, then the West End's biggest and highest-paid star, came face to face with the 27-year-old Prince Philip for the first time.
Wearing a near-transparent black lace dress slit at the side to reveal the fabulous legs that the critic Kenneth Tynan later hymned as 'the eighth wonder of the world', Kirkwood sang: 'Hold it Joe, hold it Joe, I'm not that kind of girl you know . . .'
Backstage, in the star dressing room after the curtain had fallen, Kirkwood, waited impatiently for her then boyfriend, the society photographer Baron, to arrive to take her out for dinner.
Dressed to the nines in a fabulous new long pale coral evening dress, with one black velvet rose on the hip, and a white ermine jacket, Kirkwood was less than pleased when Baron phoned her from Wheeler's Restaurant in Soho, where he had spent the day at a more than usually bibulous meeting of the all-male Thursday Club, which held weekly luncheons.
'There will be three of us,' he announced in a sepulchral whisper, and then hung up.
When, to general consternation, Prince Philip's head came round the dressing room door, Kirkwood's mother, Norah, had just emerged, 'to the accompaniment of Niagara Falls', from the bathroom, which had 'the loudest flush in London'.
As HRH entered, Pat's dresser, Bessie Porter, a large woman built like a bus, attempted to sink into a curtsy, but got stuck three-quarters of the way down. Philip was among those who had to haul her to her feet.
Within 24 hours of Pat meeting Prince Philip, rumours spread around the world
The royal party left the theatre, with Prince Philip driving Kirkwood in his sports car. According to the later account of Kirkwood's third husband, actor, composer and playwright Hubert Gregg, copious quantities of alcohol had been consumed at the Thursday Club.
'Not to put too fine a point on it, they'd all had a skinful,' said Gregg. 'Pat was not a driver, but she may well have saved Prince Philip from a drink-driving charge.
'On their way up Piccadilly, he was running into the bumpers of cars in front of them, and she several times grabbed the wheel in order to prevent an accident.'
Their arrival at Mayfair's most exclusive restaurant, Les Ambassadeurs, caused a sensation.
At the sight of the tall, flaxen-haired royal consort, escorting the most beautiful young star of the day to their table, a hush descended on the celebrity-packed nightspot.
As Philip ordered beer and Kirkwood ordered champagne, hardly a knife or fork moved at any of the adjoining tables.
'You could have heard a pin drop,' she told me many years later.
Next, the royal party went on to the Milroy nightclub upstairs, where Kirkwood and Philip danced until 4.30am. The encounter ended with the dancing partners consuming scrambled eggs at dawn in Baron's flat.
Unknown to Kirkwood, even before they had left the nightclub, the rumour mills had started to grind. Within 24 hours, the saga was in print around the world.
George VI, incandescent with rage on behalf of his daughter, the future Queen, who was then eight months pregnant with her first child, Charles, lambasted his son-in-law in largely unprintable language.
Baron also fell from royal favour as a result of this episode. When Prince Philip attempted to recommend him to take the official pictures of the Queen's Coronation in 1953, he was sternly opposed by his formidable mother-in-law, the Queen Mother, who insisted successfully that Cecil Beaton should be chosen.
Most royal rumours swiftly fade. This one did not. With the years, it grew in substance.
Kirkwood was horrified to hear herself being openly described as Philip's mistress, and influential members of White's (the leading Establishment club in St James's) began to state authoritatively that the royal consort had given the musical star a white Rolls-Royce.
The truth, however, was that Kirkwood had never possessed a Rolls-Royce and was simply given a miniature one by her second husband, shipowner Spiro de Spero Gabriele. It stood on her mantelpiece for years.
Possibly in an attempt to squash the rumours, Prince Philip took the Queen to watch Kirkwood displaying her celebrated legs as Principal Boy in a West End pantomime, and the star was chosen to appear in four Royal Variety Performances, after each of which she was publicly presented to the Queen and her husband.
At one of these, Philip told Kirkwood, in the hearing of the comedian Terry-Thomas, how much he had loved 'that evening at Les A. Oh, I did enjoy it'.
Yet despite Kirkwood's glittering career achievements, the awards she won, including being voted Television Personality of the Year, successive Honours lists came and went without any mention of her name. The royal rumour, it seemed, was considered by the faceless gnomes of Whitehall as a strike against her.
The saga of 'the Prince and the Showgirl', which became a favourite tabloid headline - it infuriated Kirkwood, who had been a solo performer from the age of 14 and had never danced in a chorus in her life - inaugurated six decades of rumour that the Duke of Edinburgh was an unfaithful husband and a boorish philanderer.
Not only Kirkwood was linked with him romantically, but also his childhood friend, the Greek cabaret star Helene Cordet, who had two children by her future second husband while separated from her first husband, but declined at the time to name the father.
When Philip elected to become godfather to both children, it was instantly assumed that he must be their father.
Many years later, Cordet's son, Max, who became a professor of economics, was finally provoked into issuing a public statement denying this utterly.
After Kirkwood and Cordet, numerous other famous and beautiful women have been alleged to have been Philip's lovers.
To squash the rumours, Prince Philip took the Queen to watch Pat in a West End pantomime
They include the Countess of Westmorland, wife of the Queen's Master of the Horse, the novelist Daphne du Maurier, wife of the Comptroller of the Royal Household, the actresses Merle Oberon and Anna Massey, the TV personality Katie Boyle, the Duchess of York's mother, Susan Barrantes, the Duchess of Abercorn, wife of the Lord Steward of the Royal Household, the Queen's first cousin, Princess Alexandra, and Philip's glamorous carriage-driving companion, Lady Romsey.
Of these, Daphne du Maurier was merely a casual acquaintance. Katie Boyle has rubbished suggestions of intimacy. Anna Massey met Philip only once socially. And the Duchess of Abercorn, while admitting to 'a highly charged chemistry' with Philip, denied any physical relationship, adding that 'the passion was in the ideas'.
To a female journalist who once had the temerity to question him about the rumours of extra-marital infidelities, Philip barked: 'Good God, woman, I don't know what sort of company you keep.
'Have you ever stopped to think that for the past 40 years I have never moved anywhere without a policeman accompanying me? So how the hell could I get away with anything like that?'
Sometimes, however, Philip's somewhat chauvinist sense of humour has served to add fuel to the fires of speculation.
'How could I be unfaithful to the Queen?' he once inquired rhetorically. 'There is no way that she could possibly retaliate.'
And to a hapless woman solicitor in a royal reception line, he observed loudly: 'I thought it was against the law these days for a woman to solicit.'
But as the first anniversary of Pat Kirkwood's death draws near, I can reveal that the star, whose beauty and charisma launched all these rumours 60 years ago, has come to Prince Philip's rescue posthumously in the way that he failed to do for her during her lifetime.
Her fourth and last husband, the distinguished former solicitor, Peter Knight, ex-President of the Bradford and Bingley Building Society, tells me: 'I have in my possession correspondence-which passed between my wife and His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh which leaves no room for doubt that the allegations so often made regarding a relation- ship between them are entirely without foundation.
'It was my wife's express wish that these letters should be handed in the fullness of time to the Duke's official biographer in order that the truth may be finally established. Until that time, they will not be released for publication.'
Peter Knight is precluded by Kirkwood's own instructions from showing these letters to anyone in Philip's lifetime. But during my own close friendship with the star, she herself showed them to me.
On October 2, 1988, writing from Balmoral Castle, with the Order of the Garter motto beneath the royal crown - Honi Soit Qui Mal y Pense (Evil Be to Him Who Evil Thinks) - Philip lamented the latest media resurrection of their supposed affair.
'I am very sorry indeed to hear that you have been pestered about that ridiculous "rumour". The trouble is that certain things seem to get into journalist "folklore" and it is virtually impossible to get it out of the system.
'Much as I would like to put a stop to this, and many other similar stories about other members of the family, we have found that, short of starting libel proceedings, there is absolutely nothing to be done.
'Invasion of privacy, invention and false quotations are the bane of our existence . . .'
Later, learning that Kirkwood was writing her memoirs,
Philip urged her: 'I feel that your best bet is to put the facts squarely in your book. It may not make any difference to what the "evil-minded" may think, but I am sure that most reasonable people would accept what you say, and it would then be on the record. Philip.'
From Sandringham on January 12, 1989, the Duke of Edinburgh wrote to deplore the news that Kirkwood and her husband had been besieged by Sunday tabloid reporters and photographers.
'I am deeply sorry that you have had this very unpleasant experience with the Press.
After nearly 40 years of such treatment, I am more or less hardened to this sort of thing, so please do not feel any anxiety about my reaction - I can only hope that the matter will now be dropped. There must be a limit to the amount of blood you can squeeze out of a stone. Philip.'
But the matter was not dropped. On May 6, 1993, Kirkwood wrote bitterly to Buckingham Palace: 'I think if there had been some support from your direction, the matter could have been squashed years ago instead of having to battle a sea of sharks single-handed.'
But Philip, true to royal tradition, remained steadfastly silent. And Pat Kirkwood's name remained conspicuous by its absence from the Honours list.
On the new CD, she sings: 'If we'd thought a bit of the end of it when we started painting the town, we'd have been aware that our love affair was too hot not to cool down . . .'
As we now know, it wasn't a love affair, although millions wanted to believe that it was, just as they still like to think of Philip as the royal
Jack the Lad who cheats on his long-suffering wife.
The final extraordinary irony is that now, a year after her death, Pat Kirkwood has rescued the reputation of the man whose association with her did her such grievous damage.
She has also gone a long way towards proving that the Duke of Edinburgh's 61-year marriage to the Queen - the woman he still fondly calls 'Cabbage' - has been a happy one, unblemished by the infidelities constructed in the minds of royal fantasists.
Prince Philip and Princess Diana before the birth of William
By Andrew Alderson
12:01AM BST 14 Oct 2007
They did not hate each other. He did not call her 'a harlot'. And he wrote her sympathetic letters which he signed 'Pa'
The journey from Buckingham Palace to the Royal Courts of Justice in the Strand is less than two miles and, traffic permitting, takes just five minutes with a police escort. It may be a short trip, but it is one that Prince Philip is extremely anxious not to make.
Michael Mansfield, QC, who has made a name for himself taking on the Establishment in court, has requested that the prince be called as a witness at the inquest into the deaths of Diana, Princess of Wales and her boyfriend, Dodi Fayed. Friends of the Queen's 86-year-old consort say that he fears his appearance in the court would turn proceedings into a charade.
Mr Mansfield is acting on behalf of Dodi's father, Mohamed Fayed, who has repeatedly claimed that the Queen's husband worked with MI6, the intelligence service, to have Diana and his son murdered in Paris. Prince Philip ridicules the notion but knows that should he be called to the witness box, even denials to questions such as "Did you want Diana dead?" or "Did you work with the intelligence service to have the princess murdered?" would result in sensational headlines around the world.
Yet, if the coroner decides Prince Philip needs to give evidence, there is one reason why he might relish appearing in court 73: it would give him the chance to disprove the myth that he and Diana were at loggerheads for the final years of her life and that he had been offensive towards her in a series of letters.
Today the public perception of the relationship between Prince Philip and his one-time daughter-in-law is that it was fraught, even abusive. Yet the truth, say friends of both, is very different: they had largely patched up their differences in the final years of her life, to such an extent that he was a figure she turned to for paternalistic advice. Prince Philip gave considered and caring written responses, signing his letters "Pa".
The widespread belief that the princess and Prince Philip were at "war" is largely down to the utterings of two people. One is Mr Fayed, relentlessly alleging that Philip wanted the princess and Dodi Fayed dead, -supposedly to prevent them marrying and having children together.
The other person who propagated the idea that Prince Philip loathed the princess is Simone Simmons, a faith healer to whom the princess turned sporadically as her marriage crumbled. Five years ago, in the aftermath of the Old Bailey theft trial of Paul Burrell, the princess's former butler, Miss Simmons, 52, made a series of damaging allegations in a story she recounted to a tabloid newspaper. She claimed that Prince Philip had written a number of letters to Princess Diana in 1992. In them, according to the faith healer, the Prince called Diana a "harlot" and a "trollop" and told her she should put up with Prince Charles's affair with Camilla Parker Bowles (now his wife).
The bundle of -correspondence formed part of the so-called "Crown Jewels'" - referred to during Burrell's court case - that went missing after the princess's death in 1997. "They were the nastiest letters Diana had ever received," Miss Simmons told the Mail on Sunday in November 2002. "She had death threats which were worded nicer than his letters. He called her a trollop and a harlot and said she was damaging the Royal Family. I thought, 'What a despicable man', to say things like that."
Two weeks after the story was published, Prince Philip took the extremely rare step of denying Miss Simmons's recollections of the letters. He was so incensed by the claims that he authorised Buckingham Palace's press office to issue a brief -statement: "Prince Philip wishes to make it clear that at no point did he ever use the insulting terms described in the media reports, nor that he was curt or unfeeling in what he wrote. He regards the suggestion that he used such derogatory terms as a gross misrepresentation of his relations with his -daughter-in-law and hurtful to his grandsons."
Even now, however, Prince Philip - because of his unbending discretion - has held back from telling the whole story. Today it is left to others to reveal that, far from being abusive, the letters were thoughtful, considerate and sympathetic. They were written in the summer of 1992 after both Charles and Diana had pursued extra-marital affairs, and just months before they announced their formal separation in December 1992.
Rosa Monckton, one of the princess's closest and most loyal friends, closely guards the secrets that the princess shared with her over the years: she speaks only if she feels it her duty to put the record straight on particular events. Rather than allow Miss Simmons to re-write history, Ms Monckton has revealed that the princess allowed her to read the letters written by Prince Philip between June and September 1992, as the marriage crumbled.
"I was struck by how kind and compassionate and understanding he was of her circumstances," she says, adding that she was impressed by their -sympathetic tone and the thought that went into them.
Gyles Brandreth, the former Tory MP, journalist and broadcaster, who has known Prince Philip for more than 25 years, also believes it is wrong to suggest that he was hostile and uncaring towards his -daughter-in-law during and after 1992. Mr Brandreth gained a greater knowledge of the contents of the letters as part of his research into his book Philip and Elizabeth: Portrait of a Marriage, -published three years ago. "They [the letters] were sympathetic, but unsentimental, direct, but to a purpose," he says.
Five years ago, Miss Simmons admitted that she did not have copies of the letters - but she insisted she had remembered their contents. Prince Philip, on the other hand, did retain copies, as he will reveal to the inquest if he is called as a witness.
Royal officials have pointed out a series of other errors made by Miss Simmons that cast serious doubts on her claims and her capacity to remember the letters accurately. For instance, Miss Simmons claimed the typed letters from Prince Philip were on cream A5 paper. In fact, Prince Philip always types his letters on white A4 paper.
Furthermore, the letters - far from being "short and curt" as Miss Simmons insisted - were lengthy. And finally, Prince Philip did not, as the faith healer claimed, sign his letters to the princess "Philip", but "Pa".
The Sunday Telegraph has established that Prince Philip was so incensed at the time by the claims, and the offence they might cause to Princes William and Harry, that he consulted his lawyers, Farrer & Co, with a view to suing for defamation and making a formal complaint to the Press Complaints Com-mission, the press watchdog. It was only when he was advised that a statement would be the "simplest and quickest" way to put the record straight that he refrained from legal action. It would be naive, of course, to suggest that Prince Philip and the princess never had their differences. In the early years of the marriage, he is understood to have found her difficult, demanding and manipulative. At the time, Diana was suffering from eating disorders, a tendency to self-harm and post-natal depression.
Like the Queen, Philip was also unimpressed by the princess's secret connivance with the BBC for her Panorama interview in 1995 when she famously complained that she was the third figure in the couple's "crowded" marriage.
"Never complain, never explain" is the rule for those in royal service. But friends of the prince suspect that he may have been sympathetic to the princess as she was retaliating for what her then father-in-law deemed to be a foolhardy exercise the year before, when Prince Charles admitted adultery in a TV documentary.
Prince Philip hopes that he never has to venture inside the Royal Courts of Justice to address the 11-strong jury. According to friends, he has no desire to obstruct justice but, apart from the fact that his presence would be a distraction, he simply feels that he has nothing to contribute towards identifying the cause of the car crash that claimed the lives of the princess, Dodi Fayed and their driver Henri Paul.
If Prince Philip avoids being called as a witness, then his friends, and those of the princess, hope that Mr Fayed will nevertheless acknowledge that he has been misguided over the true nature of the relationship between Diana and her former father-in-law. They accept, however, that such hopes might be rather over-optimistic.
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