His mother, Princess Alice, began to show signs of mental illness … His father moved in with his mistress. ibid.
Philip’s four older sisters all of whom had married Germans; three of their husbands became Nazis. ibid.
On a trip to London in 1944 Mountbatten suggested to King George that they open talks with the Greek King about a possible marriage; King George slapped him down. ibid.
Prince William of Gloucester was the Queen’s cousin; he was a pageboy at her wedding in 1957 ... He was the playboy prince. Secret History: The Other Prince William
This is the untold story of a forbidden romance ... destined to end in tragedy. ibid.
Japan: ‘Like a movie star. Like James Bond.’ ibid. friend
‘I could see the fireman and customers here helping ... The flames were so intense ... This is where a member of the Royal Family was killed.’ ibid. witness, re plane crash
I fail to see any reason why we should worry ourselves about those people; they’re all right – they have all they need, and as far as I am aware, nobody wishes to harm them and they are well able to look after themselves. They will fare the same as the other rich people. Robert Tressell, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist
The feeling here today is one of outrage over this unprecedented terrorist attack on the royal family. Patriot Games 1991 starring Harrison Ford & Anne Archer & Patrick Bergin & Sean Bean & Thora Birch & James Fox & Samuel L Jackson & Polly Walker & J E Freeman & James Earl Jones & Richard Harris et al, director Phillip Noyce, TV news
That is where we must strike – at the royals and the ruling class. ibid.
Grounds, palaces and elaborate ceremonies … She and the royal family are nothing but a ruthless criminal gang. The Royals: Royal Family Secrets Exposed, Youtube 2016
Charles pays no corporation tax or capital gains tax on his business enterprises. ibid.
Her actual new worth is in the trillions. ibid.
The English royal family had a great connection with slavery. ibid.
The royal family’s net worth is confidential. ibid.
Lord Mountbatten: The paedophile that introduced child procurer Jimmy Savile into the royal inner circle in the 1960s. ibid.
The British royal family isn’t even British: they are a German family. ibid.
All of Philip’s sisters married high-ranking Nazis. ibid.
Diana: Bodyguard killed for our affair. ibid. Mail online article
Philip, I’ve just been looking at the family tree. Do you know anything about this? Look, you see who’s fourth in line for the throne – Demis Roussos. Spitting Image s2e7, Queen, ITV 1985
Don’t worry, we won’t be Nazi to her. Spitting Image s3e1, Prince Philip re imminent arrival of Princess Michael of Kent
I was quoted out of context. No no no no no no no. What I said was, They’re a bunch of yellow commie short-arsed shifty slug-eating cheeky smelly woppo slitty-eyed bastards. And what do the press do? They take the slitty-eyed completely out of context and make me look a complete arse-hole. Spitting Image s3e15, Philip to Queen
What happened to the lovely little girl I met on the beach at Mykonos? ibid.
I’ve found a way to make us much more popular. Yes, I’m going to reshuffle you. Spitting Image s14e2, Queen to family
We present Princess Diana and the Duchess of York in Absolutely Fatuous. Spitting Image s15e2, ITV 1993
And you join us today for that most glorious of traditional royal occasions steeped in history – the changing of the wives. Spitting Image s18e1, ITV 1996
Monarchy is by definition incompatible with democracy. The Power Behind the Throne, 2015
Supporters of the parliamentary system insisted that the British monarchy has no political power … Is this really true? ibid.
Money is one sort of power … Recent reports have revealed how much the royal family routinely seeks to directly and personally change the decisions of government. ibid.
They receive direct grants from the state … They have their own private property holdings. ibid.
Crown land is some of the most valuable. ibid.
Charles pays no corporation or capital gains tax on his business enterprises. ibid.
On the frozen weekend of 5th November 1936 a nerve-shredded King Edward VIII made a secret telephone call from his office in Buckingham Palace. In a private conversation with his brother he confided that he could no longer be king if it meant abandoning the woman he loved. But recently declassified documents have revealed that his every word was being scrutinised. Spying on the Royals I, Channel 4 2017
A king suspected of Nazi sympathies … and a top-secret surveillance operation against the king. ibid.
[Albert] Canning began to investigate her background … she had a frustratingly murky past. ibid.
The question of identity of Wallis’s second lover became all-consuming. ibid.
The Prince of Wales seemed set on a woman who seemed far from set on him. ibid.
The press abroad: and they were starting to run the story. Edward and Wallis were becoming more brazen. ibid.
King Edward refused to condemn anti-Semitic violence. ibid.
Rumours of marriage were not beginning to circulate. ibid.
In July 1940, while Britain faced the threat of Nazi invasion, the ex-king Edward VIII and his wife the former Wallis Simpson arrived in Lisbon. They were guests of a Portuguese bankers who was also a known Nazi collaborator. Secretly watching their every move was a British spy … ‘They are clearly fifth column’. Spying on the Royals II
Six months after giving up his throne, Edward married Wallis. ibid.
Giving orders to the British embassy in Berlin to pointedly ignore his brother. ibid.
Edward had offered to help dethrone his brother and become president. ibid.
The Duke and Duchess’s first visit to Britain since their marriage was a disaster. ibid.
The Bahamas was one of the sleepiest outposts of the British empire. ibid.
The Duchess was not finding the Caribbean to her taste. ibid.
The FBI had only recently moved into the murky world of espionage. ibid.
An unsubstantiated allegation that the Duchess had been passing information to the enemy. ibid.
‘She was the Queen’s sister but she did things which nobody else in royal family had done.’ Princess Margaret: The Rebel Royal I: Pleasure v Duty, BBC 2018
In her lifetime Princess Margaret was both loved and criticised. But has her place in our history ever been properly understood? ibid.
Margaret was part of a social revolution that would shake both the country and the royal family. ibid.
The Archbishop and Princess Margaret: A Rising Tide of Anger. ibid. Daily Mirror 5 November 1955
‘Mr Armstrong-Jones has been known for some time … And he bore himself admirably.’ ibid. newsreel
1964: Margaret and Tony’s second child is born. Margaret is 33. Princess Margaret: The Rebel Royal II: Castaway
‘He should have helped her but he didn’t … He spent more and more time away.’ ibid. lady in waiting
Anne and Colin gave Margaret and Tony a piece of land on Mustique as a wedding present. ibid.
‘Margaret and the handsome young courtier – special report.’ ibid. News of the World 22 February 1976
‘It was most bruising to the spirits to be attacked in this way and singled out of the family all of whom had been to the West Indies specially because I have no one to stick up for me, no husband and can’t answer back.’ ibid. letter to Lady Barnes 18th April 1978
9 February 2002: Princess Margaret died aged 71. ibid.