Young Prince Philip

His Turbulent Early Life

AvPhilip Eade

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Engelska, 2011

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A revelatory and racy biography of the early life of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.We have grown so used to seeing Prince Philip as a loyal, dutiful and occasionally bad-tempered old man that it is easy to forget what a strange and intriguing life he led when he was younger. `Young Prince Philip’ tells the story of the first, hugely intriguing, half of his life.In this fast-paced and highly entertaining biography, Philip Eade will focus on those aspects of the Prince’s early life that are most compelling: his father’s dramatic flight from revolutionary Greece; the subsequent madness of his deaf mother and prolonged absences of his feckless father; his school days in Nazi Germany; his relationship with his four sisters, all married to Germans, one to an officer in the SS; his rather breezy courtship and marriage to the most eligible girl in the world; and his alleged infidelities and membership of raffish circles during the 1950s and `60s.Written with great verve, `Young Prince Philip’ will be less reverential in tone than the traditional royal biography but no less meticulously researched and authoritative.

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Utgivningsdatum:2011-06-09
Språk:Engelska
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9780007435920
Förlag:HarperCollins Publishers

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Philip Eade read History at Bristol University. After a year in Spain and a brief career as a criminal barrister, he took up journalism and he has since written for the Daily Telegraph and a range of magazines. His first book, ‘Sylvia, Queen of the Headhunters’ was published in 2007 to widespread critical acclaim.

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Praise for 'Sylvia, Queen of the Headhunters' '[Philip Eade] is a natural writer: percipient, sympathetic, amusing!Those with an interest in the adventures of British eccentrics during the last decades of the Empire will have their knowledge agreeably enriched; and those who have never heard of Sylvia Brooke are in for a treat.' Michael Holroyd 'An enthralling study of an extraordinary woman. Philip Eade's book reads like a thriller; set in a semi-mythical landscape of the White Rajah's Sarawak, it is wonderfully written and studded thickly with jewels of intrigue, gossip and politics.' Joanna Lumley 'Juicily entertaining!an exceptional life, one to which Eade does rich justice.' Miranda Seymour, Mail on Sunday 'Philip Eade is eminently readable, with a detective's pertinacity at finding clues to forgotten secrets and a raconteur's gift for sustaining narrative interest!His own high spirits and cheerful intelligence turn [this] story into a rollicking good read.' Richard Davenport-Hines, Sunday Telegraph 'Jaw-dropping!If you thought White Mischief the last word in English expatriate decadence, you haven't met Sylvia and the Brookes.' The Times 'A thorough, fascinating and rather giddying book!sensational.' Lynne Truss, Sunday Times