<p>This is the story of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh - the longest-serving consort to the longest-reigning sovereign in British history. It is an extraordinary story, told with unique insight and authority by an author who knew the prince for more than forty years. <br><br>Philip - elusive, complex, controversial, challenging, often humorous, sometimes irascible - is the man Elizabeth II once described as her ''constant strength and guide''. Who was he? What was he really like? What is the truth about those ''gaffes'' and the rumours of affairs? This is the final portrait of an unexpected and often much-misunderstood figure. It is also the portrait of a remarkable marriage that endured for more than seventy years. <br><br>Philip and Elizabeth were both royal by birth, both great-great-grandchildren of Queen Victoria, but, in temperament and upbringing, they were two very different people. The Queen''s childhood was loving and secure, the Duke''s was turbulent; his grandfather assas
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<p><b>THE NO 1 <i>SUNDAY TIMES </i>BESTSELLER<br><br>A personal account of the life and character of Britain''s longest-reigning monarch, from the writer who knew her family best</b><br><br><b>''Compelling...
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The paperback edition of Gyles Brandreth's revealing journal paints an extraordinary portrait of Whitehall and Westminster - warts and all.
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<p>This is the definitive account of one of the most extraordinary stories of our time. Gyles Brandreth, acclaimed biographer of the Queen and Prince Philip, presents a unique portrait of their son, Charles, Prince of Wales, and of the one ''non-negotiable''...
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