Philip Eade. (2011). Prince Philip: The Turbulent Early Life of the Man Who Married Queen Elizabeth II. Henry Holt and Co.

Philip Eade. 2011. Prince Philip: The Turbulent Early Life of the Man Who Married Queen Elizabeth II. Henry Holt and Co.

Philip Eade, Prince Philip: The Turbulent Early Life of the Man Who Married Queen Elizabeth II. Henry Holt and Co, 2011.

Philip Eade. Prince Philip: The Turbulent Early Life of the Man Who Married Queen Elizabeth II. Henry Holt and Co, 2011.

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   • bioText: PHILIP EADE has worked as a criminal barrister, English teacher, and journalist. His first book, Sylvia Queen of the Headhunters, was a runner-up for the Biographers' Club Prize; his second, Prince Philip, became a Sunday Times bestseller. He lives in London.
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"Rich in drama and tragedy" (The Guardian), here is a mesmerizing account of the extraordinary formative years of the man married to the most famous woman in the world
Before he met the young girl who became Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip had a tumultuous upbringing in Greece, France, Nazi Germany, and Britain. His mother, Princess Alice of Battenberg, was born deaf; she was committed to a psychiatric clinic when Philip was eight. His father, Prince Andrew of Greece, already traumatized by his exile from his home country, promptly shut up the family home and went off to live with his mistress, effectively leaving his young son an orphan.
Remarkably, Philip emerged from his difficult childhood a character of singular vitality and dash—self-confident, 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 his considerable charm and intelligence, the young prince was also prone to volcanic outbursts, which would have profound consequences for his family and the future of the monarchy.
In this authoritative and wonderfully compelling book, acclaimed biographer Philip Eade brings to vivid life the storm-tossed early years of one of the most fascinating and mysterious members of the royal family.

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   • source: Ferdinand Mount, The Wall Street Journal
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     "Sure-footed and sparkling... I finished Prince Philip with an admiration I had not expected for this brave, brusque, imaginative oddball."

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   • source: The New York Times
   • content: "[This] remarkable new biography . . . does for the royal consort what Helen Mirren did for his wife in the 2006 movie The Queen, breathing life into a figure who had seemed stiff and remote."
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   • source: People Magazine
   • content: "After reading this engaging biography of Philip's early years, it's easy to see how the future Queen of England fell for him."
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   • source: CNBC.com (a Best Book for the Holidays, 2011)
   • content: "[Prince Philip] sounds like a Greek tragedy: A young Greek princeling loses his family, his name, his home, his job, his identity, and agrees to marry a woman who, for the rest of his life, he must always, always walk a few paces behind."
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   • source: The Washington Times
   • content: "Is there anything left to say about Prince Philip to justify yet another royal biography. Well, yes if you write as well as Philip Eade."
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   • source: Huffington Post
   • content: "A great read."
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   • source: Publishers Weekly
   • content: "Absorbing and informative."
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   • source: Kirkus Reviews
   • content: "Calorie-rich fare for those who enjoy snacking on royal stories."
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   • source: Daily Mail (London)
   • content: "Highly readable... This balanced, sympathetic, engaging book deserves to take its place among the first rank of modern royal biographies."
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      September 26, 2011
      Eade attempts to understand a man he says was never temperamentally suited to the subordinate role of prince consort, and draws on recently available archives to plumb Prince Philip’s childhood to understand his complex character. A great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria, he was cousin to his future wife and heir to the British throne, Elizabeth. Prince Philip also had close blood ties to most of Europe’s royal families. His early life was overshadowed by tragedy, including his ruling family’s forced exile from revolutionary Greece, his parents’ estrangement, and his mother Princess Alice of Battenberg’s mental breakdown and committal to a sanatorium when Philip was eight. Philip was then virtually abandoned by his depressed father to the care of his mother’s family in England. Adding to the trauma was Philip’s pregnant sister Cecile’s death in a plane crash when Philip was 16. While charming, intelligent, dutiful, and vigorous, the prince consort is, according to journalist and author Eade, also irascible, a bit of a bully, and prone to explosions of both ardor and anger—possibly rooted in his troubled youth. While lacking the sort of storytelling skill that makes for a page-turner, this straightforward, respectful biography (a U.K. bestseller) is absorbing and informative. 8 pages of b&w photos.

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"Rich in drama and tragedy" (The Guardian), here is a mesmerizing account of the extraordinary formative years of the man married to the most famous woman in the world
Before he met the young girl who became Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip had a tumultuous upbringing in Greece, France, Nazi Germany, and Britain. His mother, Princess Alice of Battenberg, was born deaf; she was committed to a psychiatric clinic when Philip was eight. His father, Prince Andrew of Greece, already traumatized by his exile from his home country, promptly shut up the family home and went off to live with his mistress, effectively leaving his young son an orphan.
Remarkably, Philip emerged from his difficult childhood a character of singular vitality and dash—self-confident, 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 his considerable charm and intelligence,...

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