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‘THE KG AND HIS HBAND’: THE GAY HISTORY OF BRISH ROYALS
PRCE PHILIP’S FASCATG FAY: A RSIAN TSARA, A GREEK ORTHODOX NUN, A BANISHED KG, AND MORETHE DE OF EDBURGH WAS RELATED TO NEARLY EVERY ROYAL FAY POWER AT THE BEGNG OF THE 20TH CENTURY, AND HIS LIFE WAS SHAPED BY THE UPHEAVAL THAT SURROUND THEM.BY HADLEY HALL MEARAPRIL 15, 2021FROM LEFT, PRCS ALICE, GRAND DUCHS OF HSE; PRCE PHILIP; PRCE ANDREW OF GREECE; ALICE OF BATTENBERG, PRCS ANDREW OF GREECE.PHOTO ILLTRATN BY VANY FAIR; PHOTOS OM GETTY IMAG. SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEBORN 1921 ON A KCHEN TABLE ON THE ISLAND OF CORFU, PRCE PHILIP ME TO THE WORLD A SCENDANT OF MOST OF EUROPE’S GREATT DYNASTI. AS HIS BGRAPHER INGRID SEWARD NOTED PRCE PHILIP REVEALED, HE HAD “MORE BLUE BLOOD NNG THROUGH HIS VES THAN HIS WIFE, THE QUEEN.”THE DE OF EDBURGH’S RELATIV AND ANCTORS CLUD THE PEOPLE WHO ENDOWED HIM WH HIS PENNCE, STUBBORNNS, AND STRONG SENSE OF DUTY AS WELL AS HUMOR— ALL OF WHICH MA HIM UNIQUELY WELL-SUED TO BE THE LONGT-SERVG PRCE NSORT BRISH HISTORY.THE GREAT-GREAT GRANDMOTHER: PRCS ALICE, GRAND DUCHS OF HSE AND BY RHETHE THIRD CHILD OF QUEEN VICTORIA AND HER BELOVED ALBERT, PRCS ALICE WAS BORN 1843. GROWG UP SHE WAS KNOWN AS THE KDLY PEACEMAKER HER LARGE FAY, AN TELLECTUAL WH A MELANCHOLY MARTYR STREAK. ACRDG TO JERROLD M. PACKARD, THOR OF VICTORIA’S DGHTERS, ALICE EQUENTLY ATTEMPTED TO BREAK HER “GOLN CHAS,” VISG TENANTS THEIR TTAG ON THE ROYAL TAT, AND ONCE NNG AWAY OM HER NANNY AT CHURCH TO S THE MONER’S PEWS.AS A TEENAGER, ALICE WAS CREDED WH NURSG HER FATHER, ALBERT, ON HIS ATHBED 1861. NICKNAMED “THE ANGEL THE HOE” BY A FAY IEND, SHE ALSO WAS BELIEVED TO HAVE KEPT A VASTATED VICTORIA OM SCENDG TO TOTAL MADNS. ON JULY 1, 1862, ALICE MARRIED THE HANDSOME AND RATHER UNPLITED LOUIS OF HSE AND RHE, AND SET OFF TO START A NEW LIFE NSERVATIVE DARMSTADT (NOW PART OF GERMANY).REMARKABLY PROGRSIVE FOR HER TIME, ALICE WAS TERMED TO SHAKE THGS UP HER NEW HOME. “IF ONE NEVER SE POVERTY AND ALWAYS LIV THAT LD CIRCLE OF COURT PEOPLE,” SHE POTEDLY WROTE HER MOTHER, “ONE’S GOOD FEELGS DRY UP, AND I FEEL THE WANT OF GOG ABOUT AND DOG THE LTLE GOOD THAT IS MY POWER.”IN EQUENT TOUCH WH HER HERO FLORENCE NIGHTGALE, PRCS ALICE SET ABOUT RADILLY TRANSFORMG HEALTH RE HSE. OVER TIME SHE WOULD OPEN THE ALICE HOSPAL, AND THE PRCS ALICE WOMEN’S GUILD, WHICH TRAED NURS. SHE ALSO PROMOTED THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN (MUCH TO MANY ARISTOCRATIC WOMEN’S CHAGR) WH THE DARMSTADT WOMEN’S DAY, AND VED LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN DAVID FRIEDRICH STRSS TO HER HOME, LEADG HER MOTHER--LAW, EMPRS AUGTA, TO DUB HER A “PLETE ATHEIST!”QUEEN VICTORIA WAS ALSO THREATENED BY HER PROGRSIVE DGHTER, WHO SHE LLED “SHARP AND GRAND AND WANTG TO HAVE EVERYTHG HER OWN WAY.” ACRDG TO VICTORIA, ALICE HAD DARED ASK HER SISTERS ABOUT THEIR SEX LIFE AND GYNELOGIL HEALTH, MUCH TO THEIR MOTHER’S HORROR. AFTER THE ACCINTAL ATH OF HER FAVORE SON FRTIE 1873, HER MELANCHOLY STREAK CREASED. “I WISH I WERE AD,” SHE WROTE, “AND PROBABLY WILL NOT BE TOO LONG BEFORE I GIVE MAMA THAT PLEASURE.”PRCS ALICE DIED OF DIPHTHERIA ON DEC. 14, 1878, THE FIRST CHILD OF VICTORIA AND ALBERT TO DIE. SHE LEFT BEHD FIVE LIVG CHILDREN—VICTORIA, IRENE, ERNT, AND THE DOOMED ELLA AND ALIX, WHO WERE MURRED DURG THE RSIAN REVOLUTN. FOR MORE ON ELLA, READ BELOW.THE GREAT AUNT: GRAND DUCHS ELIZABETH (ELLA) OF RSIACANONIZED AS A SAT THE RSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH, GRAND DUCHS ELLA OF RSIA WOULD HAVE AN ENORMO IMPACT ON HER FAY. GENTLE, PASSNATE AND ENERGETIC, ELLA WAS THE UNREQUED LOVE OF HER THE FUTURE KAISER WILHELM II, WHO PUT DOWN SWORD LONG ENOUGH TO WRE POETRY HER HONOR.IN 1884, ELLA MARRIED THE MUCH OLR, EXTREMELY UPTIGHT GRAND DE SERGEI OF RSIA, ERNOR OF MOSW. A SOCIETY STAR, WAS ELLA WHO ENURAGED THE ROMANCE BETWEEN HER PAFULLY SHY SISTER ALIX AND THE FUTURE TSAR NICHOLAS II. BUT ELLA’S GAY LIFE OF BALLS, SLEDDG, AND CHARY EVENTS END 1905, WHEN HER HBAND WAS ASSASSATED BY REVOLUTNARI. ACRDG TO ROBERT K. MASSIE, THOR OF NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA:MOST POPULARTHE ELVIS PRLEY WE DIDN’T SEE ELVISBY KATEY RICHRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHELON MK’S TWTER WANTED TO TELL TMP ABOUT A SEALED SEARCH WARRANT AND POTENTIALLY F--K UP JACK SMH’S CRIMAL INVTIGATNBY BS LEVTHE GRAND DE… HAD JT SAID GOODBYE TO HIS WIFE THEIR KREML APARTMENT AND WAS DRIVG THROUGH ONE OF THE GAT WHEN A BOMB EXPLOD ON TOP OF HIM. HEARG THE SHUDRG BLAST, ELLA CRIED, “IT’S SERGE,” AND SHED TO HIM. WHAT SHE FOUND WAS NOT HER HBAND, BUT A HUNDRED UNREGNIZABLE PIEC OF FLH, BLEEDG TO THE SNOW. COURAGEOLY THE GRAND DUCHS WENT TO HER HBAND’S DYG ACHMAN AND EASED HIS LAST MOMENTS BY TELLG HIM THAT THE GRAND DE HAD SURVIVED.FROM THAT DAY FORWARD, ELLA APPEARED TO CHANNEL HER MOTHER ALICE OF HSE. SHE VISED HER HBAND’S KILLER PRISON, ASKG HIM TO PRAY WH HER FOR FIVENS. SHE OPENED THE CONVENT OF MARTHA AND MARY MOSW AND BEME AN ABBS- THOUGH SHE MA SURE THAT HER FLATTERG PEARL GRAY ROB WERE SIGNED BY SOCIETY PATER MIKHAIL NTEROV. THROUGH HER NVENT, ELLA FED THOANDS, AND NURSED NEARLY AS MANY. ELLA ALSO SAW RIGHT THROUGH RASPUT, AND 1916 WARNED HER SISTER, NOW EMPRS ALEXANDRA, THAT HE WOULD STROY THE ROYAL FAY.THE EMPRS WAS FUR AND ORRED HER SISTER A RRIAGE. THE TWO DOOMED SIBLGS NEVER SAW EACH OTHER AGA. DURG THE RSIAN REVOLUTN, ELLA’S CHILDHOOD LOVE, NOW KAISER WILHELM II, ATTEMPTED TO SAVE HER, BUT TO NO AVAIL. ON JULY 18, 1918, THE DAY AFTER THE HORRIFIC MURR OF NICHOLAS, ALEXANDRA AND THEIR FIVE CHILDREN, ELLA AND ANOTHER GROUP OF ROYALS WERE THROWN TO AN ABANDONED ME SHAFT THE URALS. THOUGH GRENAS WERE THROWN AFTER THEM, A CUR PEASANT HEARD THE VICTIMS SGG HYMNS.WHEN THEIR BODI WERE DISVERED BY THE WHE ARMY LATER THAT YEAR, THE YOUNG PRCE JOHN’S HEAD WAS FOUND BOUND ELLA’S HANDKERCHIEF.NOT ONLY WOULD THE ATH OF THE RSIAN ROYALS IMPACT HIS MOTHER, BUT PHILIP WAS ALSO MUCH AFFECTED BY THEIR FATE. IN 1957, HE STATED, “I WOULD LIKE TO GO TO RSIA VERY MUCH—ALTHOUGH THE BASTARDS MURRED HALF MY FAY.” DES LATER, HE DONATED HIS OWN DNA WHICH HELPED INTIFY THE REMAS OF THE FAY OF NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA.THE FATHER: PRCE ANDREW OF GREECE AND DENMARKDEBONAIR, CHARMG, AND TRAGILLY RELS, PRCE ANDREW, ACRDG TO ONE RELATIVE, ULD TREAT ANYTHG LIFE THREW AT HIM AS A JOKE. HIS SON PHILIP AGREED, CLAIMG THAT HANGG OUT WH HIS FATHER AND UNCL WAS LIKE WATCHG THE MARX BROTHERS. IT WAS LGHTER BORN OF GREAT DISRD.IN 1903, ANDREW, THE SON OF KG GEE I OF GREECE, MARRIED THE BETIFUL ALICE, DGHTER OF VICTORIA (THE OLST CHILD OF PRCS ALICE AND LOUIS OF HSE). IT WAS A “WEDDG OF THE CENTURY,” PAID FOR BY TSAR NICHOLAS II AND ATTEND BY THE CREAM OF ROYAL EUROPEANS. DURG THE UPLE’S HONEYMOON, ’S SAID THAT HE TOLD HIS PROFOUNDLY AF BRI THAT HER WEDDG GIFT WAS A MOTORCYCLE, G HER TO BURST TO TEARS.IT DID NOT TAKE LONG FOR THE TROUBLE TO BEG. GEE I WAS ASSASSATED 1913, AND ANDREW’S GROWG FAY WAS THROWN TO PERDS OF EXILE. AS AN ARMY LEAR DURG THE GRE-TURKISH WAR OF 1919-1922, HE WAS ACCED OF DISOBEYG ORRS, LEADG TO THE CIMATN OF THE GREEK ARMY AT SMYRNA. HE WAS URT-MARTIALED, AND FLED WH HIS FAY (CLUDG AN FANT PHILIP) ABOARD THE WARSHIP CALYPSO, SENT BY KG GEE V OF ENGLAND.MOST POPULARTHE ELVIS PRLEY WE DIDN’T SEE ELVISBY KATEY RICHRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHELON MK’S TWTER WANTED TO TELL TMP ABOUT A SEALED SEARCH WARRANT AND POTENTIALLY F--K UP JACK SMH’S CRIMAL INVTIGATNBY BS LEVPUBLICLY, ANDREW APPEARED TO TAKE ALL STRI. NO DOUBT THKG OF HIS BLOODY FAY HISTORY, HE TOLD THE LOS ANGEL TIM 1923 : “AS IS I AM BANISHED FOR LIFE, BUT IS BETTER TO BE BANISHED FOR LIFE THAN TO QU BREATHG FOR THE RT OF YOUR LIFE.” HE ALSO JOKED THAT HE HAD ENOUGH FUNDS AND WOULD NOT HAVE TO “GO TO THE MOVI OR ENTER BS.”ANDREW, ALICE AND THEIR FIVE CHILDREN EVENTUALLY MOVED TO A BORROWED HOME SAT-CLOUD, FRANCE. IN 1930, HE WROTE TOWARDS DISASTER, HIS VERSN OF THE EVENTS THAT HAD LED TO HIS URT-MARTIAL. THAT SAME YEAR, THE FAY DISTEGRATED. ALICE WAS SENT TO A SANARIUM, ALL FOUR DGHTERS WERE MARRIED, AND PHILIP WAS SENT TO LIVE WH RELATIV ENGLAND.PERPETUALLY SH STRAPPED, ANDREW BEME A JET-SETTG DRIFTER, OCSNALLY APPEARG PHILIP’S LIFE TO JOKE WH HIM OR TELL HIM PLATUS LIKE: “TO BE A PRCE ONE HAD TO EXCEL LIKE A PRCE… A PRCE FACT MT ALWAYS PROVE HIMSELF.”THE EXILED PRCE’S LAST YEARS WERE SPENT MONTE CARLO WH HIS FASCATG MISTRS, THE (SELF-TLED) COMTSE ANDRéE LA BIGNE. THE GOLN HAIRED ANDRéE WAS A WELL- KNOWN ACTRS AND THE DGHTER OF A FAMO PARISIAN URTAN, VALTSE LA BIGNE. ANDREW DIED 1944 OF A HEART ATTACK AFTER A PARTY, UNABLE TO SEE HIS CHILDREN DUE TO THE WAR. THOUGH THE MATERIAL POSSSNS HE LEFT HIS SON CLUD ONLY SOME CUFFLKS AND ENGRAVED HAIRBSH, MANNER THEY WERE VERY MUCH ALIKE.“HE WAS SO LIKE HIM,” HIS DGHTER SOPHIE RELLED. “PHILIP HAD THE SAME MANNERISMS, MOVEMENTS, WAY OF STANDG, WALKG AND LGHG—THE LOSSAL SENSE OF HUMOR, REALLY SEEG THE FUNNY SI OF THGS ALWAYS, AND MAKG EVERYBODY ELSE LGH.”THE MOTHER: ALICE OF BATTENBERG, PRCS ANDREW OF GREECEWHILE HER TRANGED HBAND WENT THE PLAYBOY ROUTE AFTER THE TURMOIL THAT DISPLACED THEIR FAY, PHILIP’S MOTHER, ALICE, WENT TO THE OTHER EXTREME, DRIVEN BY A RELIG ZEAL AND FAY LEGACY OF NURSG AND SERVICE.MUCH HAS BEEN WRTEN OF THE ECCENTRIC ALICE, DGHTER OF HER NAMAKE ALICE OF HSE, OLST DGHTER OF VICTORIA. ACRDG TO HUGO VICKERS, THOR OF THE FIVE ALICE: PRCS ANDREW OF GREECE, AFTER S OF WAR AND DISPLACEMENT AS A MEMBER OF THE GREEK ROYAL FAY, THE EXQUISELY BETIFUL ALICE BEME CREASGLY OBSSED WH OTHERWORLDLY IAS, CLUDG THE OCCULTIST PRACTICE OF TOMATIC WRG. BY 1929, HER NDN HAD BEE SER. ACRDG TO VICKERS:SHE BEME TENSELY MYSTIL AND WOULD LIE ON THE FLOOR ORR THAT SHE ULD VELOP ‘THE POWER NVEYED TO HER OM ABOVE’. SHE BELIEVED THAT SHE HAD VELOPED THE POWER TO HEAL HER HANDS AND SHE ED THIS EFFECTIVELY ON THE RHMATISM OF THE CHILDREN’S NANNY... BY JUNE SHE WAS CLAIMG THAT SHE ULD STOP HER THOUGHTS LIKE A BUDDHIST.ALICE WAS SENT TO A SANARIUM SWZERLAND, WHERE SHE WAS DIAGNOSED WH THE DUB DIAGNOSIS OF A “NROTIC-PREPSYCHOTIC LIBIDO NDN” AND SUBJECTED TO HORRIFIC TREATMENTS, CLUDG THE “EXPOSURE OF THE GONADS TO X-RAYS, ORR TO ACCELERATE THE MENOPSE.” PHILIP WAS OCSNALLY TAKEN TO VIS HIS AILG MOTHER, WHICH HE OFTEN FOUND IGHTENG.MOST POPULARTHE ELVIS PRLEY WE DIDN’T SEE ELVISBY KATEY RICHRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHELON MK’S TWTER WANTED TO TELL TMP ABOUT A SEALED SEARCH WARRANT AND POTENTIALLY F--K UP JACK SMH’S CRIMAL INVTIGATNBY BS LEVHOWEVER, THE TRAGIC ATH OF HER DGHTER CECILIE 1937 APPEARS TO HAVE LED TO A TURNG POT ALICE’S LIFE. SHE SISTED ON STAYG OCCUPIED ATHENS DURG THE WAR, SAVG THE LIFE OF THE JEWISH COHEN FAY AND AIDG THE SICK. WHEN ASKED BY ONE GERMAN GENERAL (PROBABLY AWARE OF HER DGHTER SOPHIE’S MARRIAGE TO A PROMENT NAZI) WHAT HE ULD DO FOR HER, SHE REPLIED: "YOU N TAKE YOUR TROOPS OUT OF MY UNTRY.”IN HONOR OF HER MARTYRED AUNT ELLA, ALICE FOUND THE GREEK ORTHODOX ORR OF THE CHRISTIAN SISTERHOOD OF MARTHA AND MARY, AND BEGAN DRSG AS A NUN WHILE NOT GIVG UP ALL EARTHLY PLEASUR. AS HER MOTHER, VICTORIA, NOTED WRYLY, “WHAT N YOU SAY OF A NUN WHO SMOK AND PLAYS CANASTA?”ALICE’S LAST YEARS WERE SPENT WH HER SON AT BUCKGHAM PALACE. BEFORE HER ATH 1969, SHE WROTE HIM A LETTER: “DEART PHILIP, BE BRAVE, AND REMEMBER I WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU, AND YOU WILL ALWAYS FD ME WHEN YOU NEED ME MOST.”SHE WAS BURIED NEXT TO HER HERO ELLA AT THE FOOT OF THE MOUNT OF OLIV JESALEM. WHEN HER DGHTER SOPHIE OBJECTED, SAYG WAS TOO FAR OM ENGLAND, ALICE REPLIED. "NONSENSE, THERE'S A PERFECTLY GOOD B SERVICE!”THE AUNT AND UNCLE: GEE AND NAJDA (NADA) MOUNTBATTEN, MARQUS AND MARCHNS OF MILFORD HAVENAFTER THE DISSOLUTN OF HIS FAY 1930, A NE-YEAR-OLD PRCE PHILIP WAS EVENTUALLY PLACED THE LOVG RE OF HIS MOTHER’S BROTHER GEE MILFORD HAVEN. A BRILLIANT, BOHEMIAN NAVAL HERO, GEE WAS MARRIED TO THE AVANT- GAR, GLOBE-TROTTG NADA, GRANDDGHTER OF THE POET ALEXANR PHK. THEY WERE MEMBERS OF THE CHAMPAGNE SOAKED “PALACE GANG,” A GROUP OF JETSETTERS LED BY THE MILFORD HAVENS, GEE’S BROTHER DICKIE AND HIS FASCATG WIFE, EDWA.AT THE MILFORD HAVEN TATE OF LYNN MANOR, PHILIP WAS EE TO PRACTICE HIS JAZZ SAXOPHONE, PLAY BADMTON ON THE URT MA JT FOR HIM AND HIS DAVID, AND TKER WH HIS UNCLE’S $60,000 MIATURE RAILROAD. HE ALSO MAY HAVE E ACROSS THE MILFORD HAVEN’S LEGENDARY PORNOGRAPHY LLECTN. ACRDG TO BGRAPHER BARBARA GOLDSMH, THE LLECTN CLUD BOOKS FEATURG CT, BTIALY, BONDAGE AND FLAGELLATN WH TL LIKE LADY GAY: SPARKLG TAL OF FUN AND FLAGELLATN.WHATEVER THE UPLE’S ADULT PECDILLOS, THEY TREATED PHILIP LIKE A SON, PAYG FOR HIS BOARDG SCHOOL AND SHOWERG HIM WH LOVE. IN 1934, NADA MA NATNAL HEADL WHEN SHE WAS DRAWN TO THE EXPLOSIVE CTODY BATTLE OVER HEIRS GLORIA VANRBILT. DURG A URT HEARG, A FRENCH MAID ACCED LTLE GLORIA’S MOTHER, ALSO NAMED GLORIA, OF KISSG HER AR IEND NADA A CANN HOTEL.“MRS. VANRBILT WAS BED READG A PAPER, AND THERE WAS LADY MILFORD HAVEN BI THE BED WH HER ARM AROUND MRS. VANRBILT’S NECK- LADY MILFORD’S ARM AROUND MRS. VANRBILT’S NECK—AND KISSG HER JT LIKE A LOVER,” THE MAID SISTED.THE STORY BEME AN TERNATNAL SNDAL, AND THE MILFORD HAVENS WERE SUMMONED TO THE PALACE FOR CRISIS TALKS. NADA NOUNCED THE CLAIM AS A MALIC LIE, WHILE PHILIP’S OLR SISTER MARGARA ALSO PUBLICLY FEND HER AUNT AND GLORIA SR. THE SNDAL EVENTUALLY BLEW OVER, BUT THE LM WAS SHORT LIVED. GEE DIED OF NCER 1938, PAVG THE WAY FOR HIS BROTHER, THE LEGENDARY LOUIS “DICKIE” MOUNTBATTEN TO BEE THE DOMANT PATERNAL FLUENCE PHILIP’S LIFE.THE FAVORE SISTER: PRCS CECILIE OF GREECE AND DENMARKPHILIP WAS DOTED ON BY HIS FOUR OLR SISTERS, THEODORA, MARGARA, CECILIE AND SOPHIE. HIS FAVORE WAS CECILIE, LOVELY, CHEERFUL AND TEN YEARS HIS SENR. IN 1931, CECILIE MARRIED THE HANDSOME GE DONAT, GRAND DE OF HSE, WH HER LTLE BROTHER SERVG AS TRA BEARER.MOST POPULARTHE ELVIS PRLEY WE DIDN’T SEE ELVISBY KATEY RICHRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHELON MK’S TWTER WANTED TO TELL TMP ABOUT A SEALED SEARCH WARRANT AND POTENTIALLY F--K UP JACK SMH’S CRIMAL INVTIGATNBY BS LEVBUT TRAGEDY STCK ON NOVEMBER 16, 1937, WHEN WHAT TIME MAGAZE REFERRED TO AS THE “THE CURSE OF HSE” STCK AGA. DONAT AND EIGHT-MONTH PREGNANT CECILIE WERE ON THEIR WAY TO ENGLAND TO ATTEND THE WEDDG OF HIS BROTHER PRCE LUDWIG AND MARGARET GEDS. TWO OF THEIR THREE CHILDREN WERE ON BOARD AS WAS DONAT’ MOTHER, ELEONORE.ACRDG TO REPORTS, THE PLANE WENT DOWN OUTSI OF OSTEND, BELGIUM AFTER CRASHG TO A SMOKTACK. IT APPEARED THE PILOT HAD BEEN ATTEMPTG A BLD EMERGENCY LANDG, AND THE WRECKAGE GAVE A CLUE AS TO WHY. NEXT TO THE BODY OF CECILIE WAS A NEWBORN BABY- LEADG VTIGATORS TO BELIEVE CECILIE HAD GONE TO PREMATURE LABOR WHILE THE AIR, G THE PILOT TO ATTEMPT TO LAND.STUDYG AT GORDONSTOUN, 16-YEAR-OLD PRCE PHILIP WAS PROFOUND SHOCK WHEN TOLD OF HIS BELOVED SISTER’S ATH. HE WENT TO THE FUNERAL, HELD NAZI NTROLLED DARMSTADT, AND WALKED NEXT TO HIS SISTER SOPHIE’S HBAND, CHRISTOPH OF HSE, A FUTURE LUFTWAFFE OFFICER DRSED AN SS UNIFORM. HE LATER SAID THAT CHRISTOPH WAS “A VERY GENTLE PERSON,” AND WAS “KD AND HAD A GOOD SENSE OF HUMOUR. SO, HE WAS ACTUALLY THE PLETE OPPOSE OF WHAT YOU WOULD EXPECT.”ACRDG TO INGRID SEWARD, OTHER ROYAL FAY MEMBERS WORE THE FAMO BROWN SHIRTS, AND THRONGS OF MONERS GAVE THE NAZI SALUTE AS THE FUNERAL RTEGE PASSED. THE REPERCSNS OF HIS FAY’S NAZI TI HAVE REVERBERATED THROUGHOUT THE S, EVEN THOUGH PHILIP VALIANTLY SERVED FOR THE BRISH DURG WWII. ACRDG TO SEWARD, DURG THE 2008 QUT TO PRCS DIANA AND DODI AL-FAYED’S ATHS, MOHAMED AL-FAYED CLAIMED PHILIP WOULD NEVER ACCEPT DODI TO THE FAY. DURG ONE EXAMATN, MOHAMED DISPLAYED HIS “PROOF.” SEWARD WR:“ALL THIS STEMS OM YOUR BELIEF THAT PRCE PHILIP IS NOT ONLY A RACIST BUT A NAZI AS WELL?” AL-FAYED REPLIED: “THAT’S RIGHT. IT IS TIME TO SEND HIM BACK TO GERMANY WHERE HE ME OM. IF YOU WANT TO KNOW HIS ORIGAL NAME, ENDS WH FRANKENSTE.” HE STARTED WAVG ABOUT A PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN 1937 AT THE FUNERAL.THOUGH HIS SISTERS WERE BANNED OM HIS 1947 WEDDG BEE OF THEIR GERMAN HBANDS, THEY WERE VED TO THE QUEEN’S 1953 RONATN. HIS LAST SURVIVG SISTER SOPHIE, SAID TO BE FUNNY AND FORTHRIGHT, OFTEN JOED HIM AT THE ROYAL WDSOR HORSE SHOW. SHE DIED 2001, PHILIP’S LAST REMAG LK TO HIS FASCATG FAY.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR— THE SHOCKGLY MELANCHOLY BRNEY SPEARS DOC YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF— R.O. KWON’S LETTER TO ASIAN WOMEN WHOSE HEARTS ARE STILL BREAKG— ANGELA JOLIE OFFERS TO TTIFY AGAST BRAD PT DRAWN-OUT DIVORCE— THE 14 BT RETOL PRODUCTS FOR A SK REBOOT— A BRISH CONSTUTN EXPERT EXPLAS WHY THE ROYALS ARE TRAPPED— CRACKG THE CASE OF LONDON’S ACROBATIC RARE-BOOK THIEV— HOW A JURASSIC PARK ROLLER COASTER GOT ATTACKED BY ACTUAL RAPTORS— FROM THE ARCHIVE: THE OMO SIGNS TED AMMON’S EAST HAMPTON MURR— SERENA WILLIAMS, MICHAEL B. JORDAN, GAL GADOT, AND MORE ARE G TO YOUR FAVORE SCREEN APRIL 13–15. GET YOUR TICKETS TO VANY FAIR’S COCKTAIL HOUR, LIVE! HERE.HADLEY HALL MEAR
SO, ABOUT THAT OLD INTERVIEW WHICH PRCE MENTNED GAY MARRIAGE ...
ANDREW, WILL, HARRY, AND PHIL: SEX LIV OF THE U.K. ROYALSROYAL ROMANCEALTHOUGH PRCE HARRY N SEEM LIKE A MORN-DAY LOTHAR, HE HAS HAD VERY FEW RELATNSHIPS, PARED TO HIS NOTOR UNCLE ANDREW, HIS FATHER, AND EVEN, WHISPER , HIS SATLY MUM.TOM SYKROYALIST CORRPONNTUPDATED JUL. 13, 2017 9:32PM EDT / PUBLISHED JUL. 25, 2012 4:45AM EDT FAMEFLY; BER-GRIFFPRCE HARRY’S LOVE LIFE IS BACK THE NEWS AFTER HE WAS SPOTTED WH 23-YEAR-OLD BLON BETY CRSIDA BONAS AT A LONDON NIGHTCLUB LAST WEEK. ALTHOUGH N SOMETIM SEEM LIKE PRCE HARRY IS A MORN-DAY LOTHAR, HE HAS FACT HAD VERY FEW RELATNSHIPS, PARED TO HIS NOTOR UNCLE ANDREW, HIS FATHER, AND EVEN, WHISPER , HIS SATLY MUM. FOLOWG OUR FIRST STALLMENT ON THE SEX LIV OF THE BRISH ROYALS FOCG ON HISTORIL KKS, NEWS OF HARRY’S NEW FLIRTATN PROMPTED THE ROYALIST TO BRG THGS BANG UP TO DATE.PRCE ANDREWSPEAKG OF PRCE HARRY, ’S ALWAYS WELL TO RELL THAT THERE WAS A TIME THE 1980S WHEN PRCE ANDREW OCCUPIED THE ROLE CURRENTLY RERVED FOR PRCE HARRY THE MEDIA—THE ROYAL FAY’S SWGER CHIEF, LNIZED BY THE PRS FOR HIS RED-BLOOD ANTICS. WHEN HE RETURNED OM ACTIVE SERVICE THE FALKLAND ISLANDS NFLICT HE GREETED HIS MOTHER, THE QUEEN, ON THE DOCKSI WH A RED ROSE CLENCHED BETWEEN HIS TEETH, AND PROMPTLY EMBARKED ON A STRG OF GLAMORO, HEADLE-IENDLY ROMANC.HE BEME KNOWN THE PRS BY THE NICKNAME RANDY ANDY FOR HIS EXPLOS. (HE IS NOW LLED, LS EXCGLY, AIR MIL ANDY FOR HIS EQUENT TRIPS FIRST CLASS AT TAXPAYERS’ EXPENSE.) INGRID SEWARD WROTE RECENTLY THE TELEGRAPH THAT WHEN PRCE ANDREW TIRED OF ROMANCG A PRETTY DANCER AND TURNED HIS ATTENTNS TO KOO STARK, HE STCTED THE BUCKGHAM PALACE SWCHBOARD NOT TO PUT THE DANCER THROUGH WHEN SHE RANG.HE WAS REPORTEDLY FORCED TO DCH KOO, AFTER EMERGED THAT SHE HAD ONCE APPEARED NAKED A FILM OF DUB QUALY. HIS MARRIAGE TO SARAH FERGON 1986 PRODUCED TWO CHILDREN, BEATRICE AND EUGENIE, BUT THE UPLE SEPARATED 1992 AND WERE DIVORCED FOUR YEARS LATER, ALTHOUGH SARAH FERGON STILL LIV THE FAY HOME, ROYAL LODGE WDSOR GREAT PARK, WHEN SHE IS THE U.K. “THEY LIVE SEPARATE LIV UNR THE SAME ROOF,” A SOURCE TOLD THE LONDON TIM LAST YEAR. “THEY EAT MEALS TOGETHER, BUT IF HE IS ENTERTAG, SHE WILL MAKE SURE SHE IS NOT AROUND.”SCE THE SEPARATN, SEEMS ANDREW HAS EMBARKED WH RENEWED GTO ON HIS LOTHAR LIFTYLE, HAVG REPORTEDLY DATED A NUMBER OF WOMEN, CLUDG DENISE MARTELL, A FORMER PLAYBOY MOL OM LOS ANGEL, WHO CLAIMED TO HAVE HAD A THREE-DAY FLG WH ANDREW THE URSE OF WHICH HE ALLOWED HER TO TUCK HIM TO BED WEARG, SOMEWHAT NFGLY, BOXER SHORTS. OTHER REPORTED GIRLIENDS HAVE CLUD PR GIRLS AURELIA CECIL AND CAROLE STANBURY, AND THE BSWOMAN AMANDA STAVELEY, WHOM HE REPORTEDLY ME CLOSE TO MARRYG. IN AN TERVIEW WH THE FANCIAL TIM LAST YEAR, STAVELY REFED TO NFIRM OR NY THAT SHE HAD “TURNED HER BACK” ON A MARRIAGE PROPOSAL, SAYG ONLY THAT ANDREW WAS A “VERY NSIRATE BOYIEND” AND A “VERY SPECIAL MAN.” ONE FORMER GIRLIEND, ACRDG TO A VANY FAIR PROFILE OF THE PRCE, HAS SAID THAT ONE OF HIS BEDROOM ROUT IS TO MOL HIS GIRLIENDS' UNRWEAR BY WAY OF A JOKE.WHEN TO LOVE SHACKS, ANDREW HAS AN IRRISTIBLE APHRODISIAC THE FORM OF A SUE OF THREE PRIVATE ROOMS AT BUCKGHAM PALACE. GIRLIENDS ARE RARELY TAKEN TO ROYAL LODGE, THE AMAZG 17TH-CENTURY MANSN HE HERED OM THE LATE QUEEN MOTHER (ALTHOUGH ANGIE EVERHART DID APPARENTLY STAY THERE).A WOMAN WHO KNOWS ANDREW WELL TOLD THE TIM, “[HE IS] PRETTY BASE TERMS OF WOMEN,” SHE SAID. “HE IS A BOOBS-AND-BUM MAN. THERE IS NOTHG SOPHISTITED ABOUT . ONE MUTE YOU’RE HAVG YOUR BUM PCHED, AND THE NEXT MUTE HE IS REMDG YOU HE IS YOUR ROYAL HIGHNS.”THE MOST BIZARRE CINT OF RECENT TIM ME WHEN COURTNEY LOVE ANNOUNCED ON-AIR DURG AN TERVIEW WH RSELL BRAND ON BRA'S CHANNEL 4 THAT ANDREW HAD TURNED UP AT HER HOE AT 1 THE MORNG, LOOKG “TO PARTY.""HE'S E TO HOLLYWOOD TO LOOK FOR CHICKS. I DON'T KNOW WHAT HE EXPECTED AT MY HOE; I THK HE THOUGHT WAS GOG TO BE LIKE A PARTY," LOVE SAID.ANDREW’S SPOKMAN WAS FORCED TO ADM THE PRCE HAD VISED HER HOE, BUT CLAIMED THE PRCE—TEETOTAL SCE THE AGE OF 19—ONLY HAD A CUP OF TEA.LAST YEAR, PRCE ANDREW STEPPED DOWN OM HIS JOB AS U.K. TRA AMBASSADOR FOLLOWG A DAMAGG SNDAL OVER HIS IENDSHIP WH JEFEY EPSTE, THE BILLNAIRE MONEY-MANAGER WHO WAS SENTENCED TO 18 MONTHS JAIL 2008 AFTER ADMTG TO SOLICG AN UNRAGE GIRL FOR PROSTUTN. EPSTE WAS ALLEGED TO HAVE ED HIS FLEET OF PRIVATE AIRCRAFT TO SEND UNRAGE GIRLS AROUND THE WORLD FOR SEX, AND A PHOTOGRAPH SURFACED OF ANDREW WH HIS ARM AROUND THE WAIST OF ONE OF THE GIRLS, THEN-17-YEAR-OLD VIRGIA ROBERTS (THERE IS NO SUGGTN ANDREW HAD ANY SEXUAL VOLVEMENT WH THE GIRL).PRCE PHILIPA MONTH BEFORE HIS WIFE, QUEEN ELIZABETH, WAS DUE TO GIVE BIRTH, PHILIP WAS TRODUCED TO PAT KIRKWOOD, “THE FIRST OF THE SHOWGIRLS WH WHOM HE WAS MORED TO HAVE HAD AN AFFAIR,” ACRDG TO PHILIP EA HIS BGRAPHY THE YOUNG PRCE PHILIP. NO WONR PHILIP WAS SUPPOSEDLY TERTED—THE CRIC KENH TYNAN ONCE PRONOUNCED KIRKWOOD’S LEGS TO BE “THE EIGHTH WONR OF THE WORLD.”PHILIP HAD ANOTHER GIRLIEND WHOM HE WOULD MEET PRIVATELY AT ONE OF THE ROYAL HO, ACRDG TO EA. A GRENADIER GUARDSMAN WOULD SERVE THE UPLE “G AND ORANGE AND BEEF SANDWICH BY THE OPEN FIRE.” DURG THE VISS, THE BOOK SAYS, PHILIP WOULD E THE SERVANTS’ ENTRANCE AND AS HE LEFT WOULD SAY TO THE SOLDIER, “DON’T FET, YOU HAVEN’T SEEN ME.”ACRDG TO EA, HIS YOUTH PHILIP WAS A MEMBER OF A LUNCH CLUB THAT ENJOYED “RIP-ROARG STAG PARTI” EVERY THURSDAY. OTHER MEMBERS CLUD EDORS OF THE DAILY EXPRS AND THE DAILY MAIL, AS WELL AS KIM PHILBY, PETER USTOV, AND DAVID NIVEN. STEPHEN WARD, THE SOCIETY OSTEOPATH WHO PROVID PROSTUT TO ERNMENT MISTER JOHN PROFUMO, WAS ALSO A MEMBER.EA REUNTS THE MOR THAT PHILIP WAS THE MYSTER “MAN THE MASK” WHO HAD SERVED DNER TO WARD’S GUTS WEARG ONLY A SMALL LACE APRON, AND THE GOSSIP MAGAZE PRIVATE EYE TOOK TO LLG PHILIP “THE NAKED WAER.” BEFORE HIS MARRIAGE TO THE QUEEN, PHILIP DATED SOCIETY BETY OSLA BENNG, A CANADIAN BUTANTE, WHOM HE MET 1939. SHE WAS “VCIBLY IGNORANT ON ALL SEXUAL MATTERS” AND ONCE “ED A D SENSATN A NIGHTCLUB WHEN SHE LOUDLY PLAED THAT WAS VERY NSIRATE OF HER BOYIEND ALWAYS TO RRY HIS TORCH [FLASHLIGHT, U.S. PARLANCE] HIS POCKET AS WAS SO UNFORTABLE WHEN DANCG,” REPORTS EA.JT AFTER WORLD WAR II, IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE ARRANGEMENT FOR HIS MARRIAGE HAD BEEN MA, PHILIP WAS ON TOUR ATRALIA AND WAS SAID TO HAVE HAD A UPLE OF FLGS.OTHER WOMEN WH WHOM HE HAS BEEN LKED CLU HIS PRCS ALEXANDRA, ITALIAN COUNTS BONNIE FRBALDI, ACTRS ANNA MASSEY, AND JANE, COUNTS OF WTMORLAND.PHILIP NI ALL THE AFFAIR MORS, SAYG: "HOW ULD I? I'VE HAD A TECTIVE MY PANY, NIGHT AND DAY, SCE 1947."PRCE EDWARDPOOR EDWARD HAS HAD TO FACE EQUENT CLAIMS THAT HE IS GAY, BEE HE HAS HAD SO FEW GIRLIENDS. HE MET HIS WIFE, SOPHIE, 1994 AND THE TWO HAVE BEEN TOGETHER SCE. HE DID DATE A MOL NAMED ROMY ADLGTON THE 1980S, WHO, ACRDG TO INGRID SEWARD, WAS GIVEN AN ADJOG ROOM TO PRCE EDWARD AT BALMORAL. DURG HER VIS TO STLAND, ROMY JOED A SHOOTG PARTY. “I WAS SO LD,” SHE SAID, “I WAS BLUE THE FACE. THE QUEEN MOTHER ME OVER TO ME AND OFFERED ME A LARGE SLUG OF SLOE G: ‘THIS WILL WARM YOU UP OM THE SI.'”FORMER WEATHER GIRL ULRIKA JONSSON IS THOUGHT TO HAVE HAD A RELATNSHIP WH EDWARD. SHE ONCE SAID: "HE'S NOT GAY BUT I'M NOT TELLG YOU HOW I KNOW."ACTRS AND SGER GIRL RUTHIE HENSHALL TOLD BBC'S DERT ISLAND DISCS PRENTER KIRSTY YOUNG SHE HAD DATED THE PRCE "SOLIDLY FOR A UPLE OF YEARS, BUT ON AND OFF FOR FIVE.""WE ULDN'T QUE LET GO," SHE ADD.DURG THE URTSHIP SHE WOULD GO TO BUCKGHAM PALACE "QUE A LOT...BEE HE LIVED THERE," SHE SAID.THIS WOULD UALLY VOLVED BEG "SMUGGLED" HER R BEE THE RELATNSHIP WAS NOT PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE."IT ALWAYS MAKE ME LGH, I'D SORT OF SAY, 'I'M GOG TO MY BOYIEND'S TONIGHT.' NOBODY KNEW WHO HE WAS."WHEN ASKED ABOUT THE ROMANTIC NOTN OF "THE PRCE AND THE SHOWGIRL," SHE SAID: "IT WAS VERY EXCG, BUT I GENUELY FELL LOVE WH HIM."DPE HER FEELGS, SHE ULD NOT SEE HERSELF BEG PART OF THE ROYAL FAY, SHE SAID, BEE SHE WAS AWARE SHE WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO NTUE HER STAGE REER."I THK I HAD HOP THAT WE ULD WALK ON OUR RELATNSHIP BUT REALLY AND TTHFULLY I THK I WAS VERY AWARE THAT I WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO DO WHAT I DO FOR A LIVG IF I'D HAVE STAYED WH HIM."FERGIESARAH FERGON WAS SEPARATED OM HER HBAND PRCE ANDREW WHEN PHOTOGRAPHS WERE TAKEN OF AMERIN BSMAN JOHN BRYAN SUCKG HER TO AUGT 1992. THE PICTUR WERE PRTED THE U.K. TABLOIDS, G A PREDICTABLE SENSATN.THE RELATNSHIP WH ANDREW WAS DIFFICULT. SHE ONCE SAID: “TWO WEEKS AFTER WE GOT MARRIED, ANDREW WENT TO SEA, AND THEN I ONLY SAW HIM FOR 40 DAYS A YEAR FOR THE FIRST FIVE YEARS OF OUR MARRIAGE. I THK, ONCE WE'D REALISED WE WERE BEG KEPT APART, WE SHOULD HAVE FOUGHT FOR HIM TO LEAVE THE NAVY AND FOR HIM TO HAVE BEE GOVERNOR GENERAL OF CANADA. IF WE HAD, MAYBE WE'D STILL BE TOGETHER NOW.” PRCE CHARLPRCE CHARL HAS HAD A VARIED LOVE LIFE. IN 1974, LORD MOUNTBATTEN, HIS GODFATHER, ADVISED HIM: "IN A SE LIKE YOURS, THE MAN SHOULD SOW HIS WILD OATS AND HAVE AS MANY AFFAIRS AS HE N BEFORE SETTLG DOWN, BUT FOR A WIFE HE SHOULD CHOOSE A SUABLE, ATTRACTIVE, AND SWEET-CHARACTERED GIRL BEFORE SHE HAS MET ANYONE ELSE SHE MIGHT FALL IS DISTURBG FOR WOMEN TO HAVE EXPERIENC IF THEY HAVE TO REMA ON A PESTAL AFTER MARRIAGE."ROBERT LACEY, QUOTG THE LETTER HIS BOOK THE QUEEN, SUMS UP THIS ADVICE AS, “FUCK ‘EM ALL, THEN A MARRY A VIRG.”HE APPARENTLY DID JT THAT.ASI OM HIS RELATNSHIP WH CALA, (“MY GREAT-GRANDMOTHER WAS THE MISTRS OF YOUR GREAT-GREAT-GRANDFATHER,” WAS CALA’S REPUTED E-ON LE WHEN SHE MET CHARL, “SO HOW ABOUT ?”) HE ALSO REPORTEDLY HAD AN AFFAIR WH ASIE BLOND BOMBSHELL KANGA TRYON, WHO MET CHARL ATRALIA 1966 WHEN THE CHARL SPENT TWO TERMS AT GEELONG GRAMMAR SCHOOL VICTORIA. BUT "THE BEDD ULD NOT BE WEDD" AND SHE MARRIED THE MERCHANT BANKER ANTHONY TRYON, ONE OF CHARL’S OLST IENDS, 1973.A CHANNEL 4 DOCUMENTARY, HIGH SOCIETY, CLAIMED THAT FOR A TIME BOTH KANGA AND CALA WERE CHARL’S MISTRS.LADY DIANADIANA'S FORMER BUTLER PL BURRELL HAS CLAIMED THE PRCS HAD NE SUORS AFTER HER DIVORCE. ACRDG TO BURRELL, THEY CLUD:DODI FAYED, WHOM SHE WAS SEEG AT THE TIME OF HER ATH.HASNAT KHAN, THE HEART SURGEON NICKNAMED "MR WONRFUL" BY DIANA. DIANA NTEMPLATED NVERTG TO ISLAM TO MARRY HIM.JAM GILBEY, THE OTHER PARTY THE "SQUIDGY” TAP, WHO, DURG A PHONE NVERSATN RERD BETWEEN THE PAIR ON THE NEW YEAR'S EVE OF 1989, LLED DI "SQUIDGY" 14 TIM.JAM HEWT, THE ARCH-D, WHO SOLD THE STORY OF HIS LONG-TERM RELATNSHIP TO DI TO THE PAPERS.IN 2004, PREVLY UNSEEN VIO OF DIANA PLAYED ON NBC SCRIBED HOW SHE AND CHARL MET ONLY 13 TIM BEFORE THEY WERE MARRIED, AND MA LOVE JT ONCE EVERY THREE WEEKS.PRCE HARRYHARRY HAS STGGLED TO FD LOVE SCE SEPARATG OM HIS LONG-TERM GIRLIEND CHELSY DAVY LAST YEAR AFTER SHE REPORTEDLY BALKED AT LIVG A PUBLIC LIFE FOLLOWG THE ROYAL WEDDG.HE SAID A TV TERVIEW THAT HE WAS LOOKG FOR SOMEONE WILLG TO "TAKE ON" THE JOB.HARRY HAS BEEN LKED TO A NUMBER OF GIRLS, CLUDG ASTRID HARBORD, WHOM HE TOOK BACK TO CLARENCE HOE AFTER A NIGHT OUT, AND POSH LGERIE MOL FLORENCE BNELL-BCE, BUT NONE OF THE ROMANC HAS LED TO A LASTG RELATNSHIP. LAST YEAR WHEN HE WAS AMERI, HE REPORTEDLY URTED CKTAIL WARS JSI DONALDSON, THOUGH SHE NI .HE WAS REPORTEDLY SPOTTED NOODLG WH CRSIDA BONAS A LONDON CLUB LAST WEEK, BUT SHE HAS SCE LET BE KNOWN THAT HARRY "ISN’T REALLY HER TYPE."PRCE WILLIAMWILLIAM’S SEX LIFE IS REASSURGLY UNLIKE EHER OF HIS PARENTS. HE’S BEEN WH KATE MIDDLETON SCE UNIVERSY, AND ALTHOUGH SHE IS NOT THE ONLY GIRL HE’S EVER SLEPT WH, THE NUMBER OF WILLIAM’S SEXUAL PARTNERS N BE UNTED ON ONE HAND.KATE MIDDLETONKATE REPORTEDLY DATED QUE A FEW BOYS WHEN SHE WAS AT MARLBOROUGH, BUT, SOURC TELL THE DAILY BEAST, MOST OF THE WERE JT “NOCENT" SCHOOL ROMANC.AT A RECENT WEDDG WILLIAM AND KATE ATTEND, THE GUTS OF THE BRI AND GROOM CLUD PRCE WILLIAM'S FORMER GIRLIENDS ROSE FARQUHAR AND OLIVIA HUNT, WHILE KATE'S FORMER PARTNERS WILLEM MARX AND HENRY ROPNER WERE ALSO THERE.FARQUHAR, 28 A SGER, WHO PERFORMED AT THE CEREMONY, BRIEFLY DATED WILLS AFTER HE FISHED SCHOOL 2000. BLON OLIVIA HUNT, ALSO 28, HAD A FLG WH THE PRCE BEFORE HE MET KATE AT UNIVERSY.MORE AWKWARDLY, HENRY ROPNER, WHO ATTEND THE WEDDG WH HIS WIFE, NATASHA, DATED KATE FOR A WHILE AFTER SHE SPL UP WH WILLS 2007, AND MARX WAS KATE'S FIRST BOYIEND. TOM SYK

‘THE KG AND HIS HBAND’: THE GAY HISTORY OF BRISH ROYALS

Queen Elizabeth's is expected to wed the first same-sex royal weddg this summer — but he is far om the first gay Brish royal, acrdg to historians. * prince phillip gay *

One journalist even went so far as to ask Philip about the possibily of children he had wh other women and to suggt that the De had enjoyed a "homosexual liaison" wh the former Print of France, Valery Gisrd d'Estag. We do know that FBI documents om the 1940s revealed shockg claims that Mountbatten was secretly 'a homosexual wh a perversn for young boys. ”The speculatn that Edward II’s relatnships wh the men went beyond iendship was fueled by Christopher Marlowe’s 16th-century play “Edward II”, which is often noted for s homoerotic portrayal of Edward II and VI and I, who reigned over Stland and later England and Ireland until his ath 1625, attracted siar scty for his male favor, a term ed for panns and advisers who had special preference wh monarchs.

Bergeron theoriz his book “Kg Jam and Letters of Homoerotic Dire”: “The scriptn that mov across the letters spell sire.

But Ella’s gay life of balls, sleddg, and chary events end 1905, when her hband was assassated by revolutnari. Acrdg to bgrapher Barbara Goldsmh, the llectn clud books featurg ct, btialy, bondage and flagellatn wh tl like Lady Gay: Sparklg Tal of Fun and Flagellatn. Stay ahead of the trend fashn and beyond wh our ee weekly Liftyle Ed newsletterStay ahead of the trend fashn and beyond wh our ee weekly Liftyle Ed newsletter The first same-sex royal weddg has taken place - a historic ocsn for the Ivar Mountbatten, a of Queen Elizabeth II, and his partner Jam Coyle married over the weekend, after announcg June that they would be tyg the pair, who have been a public relatnship sce Lord Mountbatten announced he was gay 2016, reportedly exchanged vows Bridwell Park chapel Devon ont of 60 fay and iends, acrdg to the Daily Mountbatten celebrated the ocsn by sharg photos of the weddg, which he upload to Instagram wh the ptn: “Well we did fally!

PRCE PHILIP’S FASCATG FAY: A RSIAN TSARA, A GREEK ORTHODOX NUN, A BANISHED KG, AND MORETHE DE OF EDBURGH WAS RELATED TO NEARLY EVERY ROYAL FAY POWER AT THE BEGNG OF THE 20TH CENTURY, AND HIS LIFE WAS SHAPED BY THE UPHEAVAL THAT SURROUND THEM.BY HADLEY HALL MEARAPRIL 15, 2021FROM LEFT, PRCS ALICE, GRAND DUCHS OF HSE; PRCE PHILIP; PRCE ANDREW OF GREECE; ALICE OF BATTENBERG, PRCS ANDREW OF GREECE.PHOTO ILLTRATN BY VANY FAIR; PHOTOS OM GETTY IMAG. SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEBORN 1921 ON A KCHEN TABLE ON THE ISLAND OF CORFU, PRCE PHILIP ME TO THE WORLD A SCENDANT OF MOST OF EUROPE’S GREATT DYNASTI. AS HIS BGRAPHER INGRID SEWARD NOTED PRCE PHILIP REVEALED, HE HAD “MORE BLUE BLOOD NNG THROUGH HIS VES THAN HIS WIFE, THE QUEEN.”THE DE OF EDBURGH’S RELATIV AND ANCTORS CLUD THE PEOPLE WHO ENDOWED HIM WH HIS PENNCE, STUBBORNNS, AND STRONG SENSE OF DUTY AS WELL AS HUMOR— ALL OF WHICH MA HIM UNIQUELY WELL-SUED TO BE THE LONGT-SERVG PRCE NSORT BRISH HISTORY.THE GREAT-GREAT GRANDMOTHER: PRCS ALICE, GRAND DUCHS OF HSE AND BY RHETHE THIRD CHILD OF QUEEN VICTORIA AND HER BELOVED ALBERT, PRCS ALICE WAS BORN 1843. GROWG UP SHE WAS KNOWN AS THE KDLY PEACEMAKER HER LARGE FAY, AN TELLECTUAL WH A MELANCHOLY MARTYR STREAK. ACRDG TO JERROLD M. PACKARD, THOR OF VICTORIA’S DGHTERS, ALICE EQUENTLY ATTEMPTED TO BREAK HER “GOLN CHAS,” VISG TENANTS THEIR TTAG ON THE ROYAL TAT, AND ONCE NNG AWAY OM HER NANNY AT CHURCH TO S THE MONER’S PEWS.AS A TEENAGER, ALICE WAS CREDED WH NURSG HER FATHER, ALBERT, ON HIS ATHBED 1861. NICKNAMED “THE ANGEL THE HOE” BY A FAY IEND, SHE ALSO WAS BELIEVED TO HAVE KEPT A VASTATED VICTORIA OM SCENDG TO TOTAL MADNS. ON JULY 1, 1862, ALICE MARRIED THE HANDSOME AND RATHER UNPLITED LOUIS OF HSE AND RHE, AND SET OFF TO START A NEW LIFE NSERVATIVE DARMSTADT (NOW PART OF GERMANY).REMARKABLY PROGRSIVE FOR HER TIME, ALICE WAS TERMED TO SHAKE THGS UP HER NEW HOME. “IF ONE NEVER SE POVERTY AND ALWAYS LIV THAT LD CIRCLE OF COURT PEOPLE,” SHE POTEDLY WROTE HER MOTHER, “ONE’S GOOD FEELGS DRY UP, AND I FEEL THE WANT OF GOG ABOUT AND DOG THE LTLE GOOD THAT IS MY POWER.”IN EQUENT TOUCH WH HER HERO FLORENCE NIGHTGALE, PRCS ALICE SET ABOUT RADILLY TRANSFORMG HEALTH RE HSE. OVER TIME SHE WOULD OPEN THE ALICE HOSPAL, AND THE PRCS ALICE WOMEN’S GUILD, WHICH TRAED NURS. SHE ALSO PROMOTED THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN (MUCH TO MANY ARISTOCRATIC WOMEN’S CHAGR) WH THE DARMSTADT WOMEN’S DAY, AND VED LIBERAL THEOLOGIAN DAVID FRIEDRICH STRSS TO HER HOME, LEADG HER MOTHER--LAW, EMPRS AUGTA, TO DUB HER A “PLETE ATHEIST!”QUEEN VICTORIA WAS ALSO THREATENED BY HER PROGRSIVE DGHTER, WHO SHE LLED “SHARP AND GRAND AND WANTG TO HAVE EVERYTHG HER OWN WAY.” ACRDG TO VICTORIA, ALICE HAD DARED ASK HER SISTERS ABOUT THEIR SEX LIFE AND GYNELOGIL HEALTH, MUCH TO THEIR MOTHER’S HORROR. AFTER THE ACCINTAL ATH OF HER FAVORE SON FRTIE 1873, HER MELANCHOLY STREAK CREASED. “I WISH I WERE AD,” SHE WROTE, “AND PROBABLY WILL NOT BE TOO LONG BEFORE I GIVE MAMA THAT PLEASURE.”PRCS ALICE DIED OF DIPHTHERIA ON DEC. 14, 1878, THE FIRST CHILD OF VICTORIA AND ALBERT TO DIE. SHE LEFT BEHD FIVE LIVG CHILDREN—VICTORIA, IRENE, ERNT, AND THE DOOMED ELLA AND ALIX, WHO WERE MURRED DURG THE RSIAN REVOLUTN. FOR MORE ON ELLA, READ BELOW.THE GREAT AUNT: GRAND DUCHS ELIZABETH (ELLA) OF RSIACANONIZED AS A SAT THE RSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH, GRAND DUCHS ELLA OF RSIA WOULD HAVE AN ENORMO IMPACT ON HER FAY. GENTLE, PASSNATE AND ENERGETIC, ELLA WAS THE UNREQUED LOVE OF HER THE FUTURE KAISER WILHELM II, WHO PUT DOWN SWORD LONG ENOUGH TO WRE POETRY HER HONOR.IN 1884, ELLA MARRIED THE MUCH OLR, EXTREMELY UPTIGHT GRAND DE SERGEI OF RSIA, ERNOR OF MOSW. A SOCIETY STAR, WAS ELLA WHO ENURAGED THE ROMANCE BETWEEN HER PAFULLY SHY SISTER ALIX AND THE FUTURE TSAR NICHOLAS II. BUT ELLA’S GAY LIFE OF BALLS, SLEDDG, AND CHARY EVENTS END 1905, WHEN HER HBAND WAS ASSASSATED BY REVOLUTNARI. ACRDG TO ROBERT K. MASSIE, THOR OF NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA:MOST POPULARTHE ELVIS PRLEY WE DIDN’T SEE ELVISBY KATEY RICHRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHELON MK’S TWTER WANTED TO TELL TMP ABOUT A SEALED SEARCH WARRANT AND POTENTIALLY F--K UP JACK SMH’S CRIMAL INVTIGATNBY BS LEVTHE GRAND DE… HAD JT SAID GOODBYE TO HIS WIFE THEIR KREML APARTMENT AND WAS DRIVG THROUGH ONE OF THE GAT WHEN A BOMB EXPLOD ON TOP OF HIM. HEARG THE SHUDRG BLAST, ELLA CRIED, “IT’S SERGE,” AND SHED TO HIM. WHAT SHE FOUND WAS NOT HER HBAND, BUT A HUNDRED UNREGNIZABLE PIEC OF FLH, BLEEDG TO THE SNOW. COURAGEOLY THE GRAND DUCHS WENT TO HER HBAND’S DYG ACHMAN AND EASED HIS LAST MOMENTS BY TELLG HIM THAT THE GRAND DE HAD SURVIVED.FROM THAT DAY FORWARD, ELLA APPEARED TO CHANNEL HER MOTHER ALICE OF HSE. SHE VISED HER HBAND’S KILLER PRISON, ASKG HIM TO PRAY WH HER FOR FIVENS. SHE OPENED THE CONVENT OF MARTHA AND MARY MOSW AND BEME AN ABBS- THOUGH SHE MA SURE THAT HER FLATTERG PEARL GRAY ROB WERE SIGNED BY SOCIETY PATER MIKHAIL NTEROV. THROUGH HER NVENT, ELLA FED THOANDS, AND NURSED NEARLY AS MANY. ELLA ALSO SAW RIGHT THROUGH RASPUT, AND 1916 WARNED HER SISTER, NOW EMPRS ALEXANDRA, THAT HE WOULD STROY THE ROYAL FAY.THE EMPRS WAS FUR AND ORRED HER SISTER A RRIAGE. THE TWO DOOMED SIBLGS NEVER SAW EACH OTHER AGA. DURG THE RSIAN REVOLUTN, ELLA’S CHILDHOOD LOVE, NOW KAISER WILHELM II, ATTEMPTED TO SAVE HER, BUT TO NO AVAIL. ON JULY 18, 1918, THE DAY AFTER THE HORRIFIC MURR OF NICHOLAS, ALEXANDRA AND THEIR FIVE CHILDREN, ELLA AND ANOTHER GROUP OF ROYALS WERE THROWN TO AN ABANDONED ME SHAFT THE URALS. THOUGH GRENAS WERE THROWN AFTER THEM, A CUR PEASANT HEARD THE VICTIMS SGG HYMNS.WHEN THEIR BODI WERE DISVERED BY THE WHE ARMY LATER THAT YEAR, THE YOUNG PRCE JOHN’S HEAD WAS FOUND BOUND ELLA’S HANDKERCHIEF.NOT ONLY WOULD THE ATH OF THE RSIAN ROYALS IMPACT HIS MOTHER, BUT PHILIP WAS ALSO MUCH AFFECTED BY THEIR FATE. IN 1957, HE STATED, “I WOULD LIKE TO GO TO RSIA VERY MUCH—ALTHOUGH THE BASTARDS MURRED HALF MY FAY.” DES LATER, HE DONATED HIS OWN DNA WHICH HELPED INTIFY THE REMAS OF THE FAY OF NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA.THE FATHER: PRCE ANDREW OF GREECE AND DENMARKDEBONAIR, CHARMG, AND TRAGILLY RELS, PRCE ANDREW, ACRDG TO ONE RELATIVE, ULD TREAT ANYTHG LIFE THREW AT HIM AS A JOKE. HIS SON PHILIP AGREED, CLAIMG THAT HANGG OUT WH HIS FATHER AND UNCL WAS LIKE WATCHG THE MARX BROTHERS. IT WAS LGHTER BORN OF GREAT DISRD.IN 1903, ANDREW, THE SON OF KG GEE I OF GREECE, MARRIED THE BETIFUL ALICE, DGHTER OF VICTORIA (THE OLST CHILD OF PRCS ALICE AND LOUIS OF HSE). IT WAS A “WEDDG OF THE CENTURY,” PAID FOR BY TSAR NICHOLAS II AND ATTEND BY THE CREAM OF ROYAL EUROPEANS. DURG THE UPLE’S HONEYMOON, ’S SAID THAT HE TOLD HIS PROFOUNDLY AF BRI THAT HER WEDDG GIFT WAS A MOTORCYCLE, G HER TO BURST TO TEARS.IT DID NOT TAKE LONG FOR THE TROUBLE TO BEG. GEE I WAS ASSASSATED 1913, AND ANDREW’S GROWG FAY WAS THROWN TO PERDS OF EXILE. AS AN ARMY LEAR DURG THE GRE-TURKISH WAR OF 1919-1922, HE WAS ACCED OF DISOBEYG ORRS, LEADG TO THE CIMATN OF THE GREEK ARMY AT SMYRNA. HE WAS URT-MARTIALED, AND FLED WH HIS FAY (CLUDG AN FANT PHILIP) ABOARD THE WARSHIP CALYPSO, SENT BY KG GEE V OF ENGLAND.MOST POPULARTHE ELVIS PRLEY WE DIDN’T SEE ELVISBY KATEY RICHRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHELON MK’S TWTER WANTED TO TELL TMP ABOUT A SEALED SEARCH WARRANT AND POTENTIALLY F--K UP JACK SMH’S CRIMAL INVTIGATNBY BS LEVPUBLICLY, ANDREW APPEARED TO TAKE ALL STRI. NO DOUBT THKG OF HIS BLOODY FAY HISTORY, HE TOLD THE LOS ANGEL TIM 1923 : “AS IS I AM BANISHED FOR LIFE, BUT IS BETTER TO BE BANISHED FOR LIFE THAN TO QU BREATHG FOR THE RT OF YOUR LIFE.” HE ALSO JOKED THAT HE HAD ENOUGH FUNDS AND WOULD NOT HAVE TO “GO TO THE MOVI OR ENTER BS.”ANDREW, ALICE AND THEIR FIVE CHILDREN EVENTUALLY MOVED TO A BORROWED HOME SAT-CLOUD, FRANCE. IN 1930, HE WROTE TOWARDS DISASTER, HIS VERSN OF THE EVENTS THAT HAD LED TO HIS URT-MARTIAL. THAT SAME YEAR, THE FAY DISTEGRATED. ALICE WAS SENT TO A SANARIUM, ALL FOUR DGHTERS WERE MARRIED, AND PHILIP WAS SENT TO LIVE WH RELATIV ENGLAND.PERPETUALLY SH STRAPPED, ANDREW BEME A JET-SETTG DRIFTER, OCSNALLY APPEARG PHILIP’S LIFE TO JOKE WH HIM OR TELL HIM PLATUS LIKE: “TO BE A PRCE ONE HAD TO EXCEL LIKE A PRCE… A PRCE FACT MT ALWAYS PROVE HIMSELF.”THE EXILED PRCE’S LAST YEARS WERE SPENT MONTE CARLO WH HIS FASCATG MISTRS, THE (SELF-TLED) COMTSE ANDRéE LA BIGNE. THE GOLN HAIRED ANDRéE WAS A WELL- KNOWN ACTRS AND THE DGHTER OF A FAMO PARISIAN URTAN, VALTSE LA BIGNE. ANDREW DIED 1944 OF A HEART ATTACK AFTER A PARTY, UNABLE TO SEE HIS CHILDREN DUE TO THE WAR. THOUGH THE MATERIAL POSSSNS HE LEFT HIS SON CLUD ONLY SOME CUFFLKS AND ENGRAVED HAIRBSH, MANNER THEY WERE VERY MUCH ALIKE.“HE WAS SO LIKE HIM,” HIS DGHTER SOPHIE RELLED. “PHILIP HAD THE SAME MANNERISMS, MOVEMENTS, WAY OF STANDG, WALKG AND LGHG—THE LOSSAL SENSE OF HUMOR, REALLY SEEG THE FUNNY SI OF THGS ALWAYS, AND MAKG EVERYBODY ELSE LGH.”THE MOTHER: ALICE OF BATTENBERG, PRCS ANDREW OF GREECEWHILE HER TRANGED HBAND WENT THE PLAYBOY ROUTE AFTER THE TURMOIL THAT DISPLACED THEIR FAY, PHILIP’S MOTHER, ALICE, WENT TO THE OTHER EXTREME, DRIVEN BY A RELIG ZEAL AND FAY LEGACY OF NURSG AND SERVICE.MUCH HAS BEEN WRTEN OF THE ECCENTRIC ALICE, DGHTER OF HER NAMAKE ALICE OF HSE, OLST DGHTER OF VICTORIA. ACRDG TO HUGO VICKERS, THOR OF THE FIVE ALICE: PRCS ANDREW OF GREECE, AFTER S OF WAR AND DISPLACEMENT AS A MEMBER OF THE GREEK ROYAL FAY, THE EXQUISELY BETIFUL ALICE BEME CREASGLY OBSSED WH OTHERWORLDLY IAS, CLUDG THE OCCULTIST PRACTICE OF TOMATIC WRG. BY 1929, HER NDN HAD BEE SER. ACRDG TO VICKERS:SHE BEME TENSELY MYSTIL AND WOULD LIE ON THE FLOOR ORR THAT SHE ULD VELOP ‘THE POWER NVEYED TO HER OM ABOVE’. SHE BELIEVED THAT SHE HAD VELOPED THE POWER TO HEAL HER HANDS AND SHE ED THIS EFFECTIVELY ON THE RHMATISM OF THE CHILDREN’S NANNY... BY JUNE SHE WAS CLAIMG THAT SHE ULD STOP HER THOUGHTS LIKE A BUDDHIST.ALICE WAS SENT TO A SANARIUM SWZERLAND, WHERE SHE WAS DIAGNOSED WH THE DUB DIAGNOSIS OF A “NROTIC-PREPSYCHOTIC LIBIDO NDN” AND SUBJECTED TO HORRIFIC TREATMENTS, CLUDG THE “EXPOSURE OF THE GONADS TO X-RAYS, ORR TO ACCELERATE THE MENOPSE.” PHILIP WAS OCSNALLY TAKEN TO VIS HIS AILG MOTHER, WHICH HE OFTEN FOUND IGHTENG.MOST POPULARTHE ELVIS PRLEY WE DIDN’T SEE ELVISBY KATEY RICHRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHELON MK’S TWTER WANTED TO TELL TMP ABOUT A SEALED SEARCH WARRANT AND POTENTIALLY F--K UP JACK SMH’S CRIMAL INVTIGATNBY BS LEVHOWEVER, THE TRAGIC ATH OF HER DGHTER CECILIE 1937 APPEARS TO HAVE LED TO A TURNG POT ALICE’S LIFE. SHE SISTED ON STAYG OCCUPIED ATHENS DURG THE WAR, SAVG THE LIFE OF THE JEWISH COHEN FAY AND AIDG THE SICK. WHEN ASKED BY ONE GERMAN GENERAL (PROBABLY AWARE OF HER DGHTER SOPHIE’S MARRIAGE TO A PROMENT NAZI) WHAT HE ULD DO FOR HER, SHE REPLIED: "YOU N TAKE YOUR TROOPS OUT OF MY UNTRY.”IN HONOR OF HER MARTYRED AUNT ELLA, ALICE FOUND THE GREEK ORTHODOX ORR OF THE CHRISTIAN SISTERHOOD OF MARTHA AND MARY, AND BEGAN DRSG AS A NUN WHILE NOT GIVG UP ALL EARTHLY PLEASUR. AS HER MOTHER, VICTORIA, NOTED WRYLY, “WHAT N YOU SAY OF A NUN WHO SMOK AND PLAYS CANASTA?”ALICE’S LAST YEARS WERE SPENT WH HER SON AT BUCKGHAM PALACE. BEFORE HER ATH 1969, SHE WROTE HIM A LETTER: “DEART PHILIP, BE BRAVE, AND REMEMBER I WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU, AND YOU WILL ALWAYS FD ME WHEN YOU NEED ME MOST.”SHE WAS BURIED NEXT TO HER HERO ELLA AT THE FOOT OF THE MOUNT OF OLIV JESALEM. WHEN HER DGHTER SOPHIE OBJECTED, SAYG WAS TOO FAR OM ENGLAND, ALICE REPLIED. "NONSENSE, THERE'S A PERFECTLY GOOD B SERVICE!”THE AUNT AND UNCLE: GEE AND NAJDA (NADA) MOUNTBATTEN, MARQUS AND MARCHNS OF MILFORD HAVENAFTER THE DISSOLUTN OF HIS FAY 1930, A NE-YEAR-OLD PRCE PHILIP WAS EVENTUALLY PLACED THE LOVG RE OF HIS MOTHER’S BROTHER GEE MILFORD HAVEN. A BRILLIANT, BOHEMIAN NAVAL HERO, GEE WAS MARRIED TO THE AVANT- GAR, GLOBE-TROTTG NADA, GRANDDGHTER OF THE POET ALEXANR PHK. THEY WERE MEMBERS OF THE CHAMPAGNE SOAKED “PALACE GANG,” A GROUP OF JETSETTERS LED BY THE MILFORD HAVENS, GEE’S BROTHER DICKIE AND HIS FASCATG WIFE, EDWA.AT THE MILFORD HAVEN TATE OF LYNN MANOR, PHILIP WAS EE TO PRACTICE HIS JAZZ SAXOPHONE, PLAY BADMTON ON THE URT MA JT FOR HIM AND HIS DAVID, AND TKER WH HIS UNCLE’S $60,000 MIATURE RAILROAD. HE ALSO MAY HAVE E ACROSS THE MILFORD HAVEN’S LEGENDARY PORNOGRAPHY LLECTN. ACRDG TO BGRAPHER BARBARA GOLDSMH, THE LLECTN CLUD BOOKS FEATURG CT, BTIALY, BONDAGE AND FLAGELLATN WH TL LIKE LADY GAY: SPARKLG TAL OF FUN AND FLAGELLATN.WHATEVER THE UPLE’S ADULT PECDILLOS, THEY TREATED PHILIP LIKE A SON, PAYG FOR HIS BOARDG SCHOOL AND SHOWERG HIM WH LOVE. IN 1934, NADA MA NATNAL HEADL WHEN SHE WAS DRAWN TO THE EXPLOSIVE CTODY BATTLE OVER HEIRS GLORIA VANRBILT. DURG A URT HEARG, A FRENCH MAID ACCED LTLE GLORIA’S MOTHER, ALSO NAMED GLORIA, OF KISSG HER AR IEND NADA A CANN HOTEL.“MRS. VANRBILT WAS BED READG A PAPER, AND THERE WAS LADY MILFORD HAVEN BI THE BED WH HER ARM AROUND MRS. VANRBILT’S NECK- LADY MILFORD’S ARM AROUND MRS. VANRBILT’S NECK—AND KISSG HER JT LIKE A LOVER,” THE MAID SISTED.THE STORY BEME AN TERNATNAL SNDAL, AND THE MILFORD HAVENS WERE SUMMONED TO THE PALACE FOR CRISIS TALKS. NADA NOUNCED THE CLAIM AS A MALIC LIE, WHILE PHILIP’S OLR SISTER MARGARA ALSO PUBLICLY FEND HER AUNT AND GLORIA SR. THE SNDAL EVENTUALLY BLEW OVER, BUT THE LM WAS SHORT LIVED. GEE DIED OF NCER 1938, PAVG THE WAY FOR HIS BROTHER, THE LEGENDARY LOUIS “DICKIE” MOUNTBATTEN TO BEE THE DOMANT PATERNAL FLUENCE PHILIP’S LIFE.THE FAVORE SISTER: PRCS CECILIE OF GREECE AND DENMARKPHILIP WAS DOTED ON BY HIS FOUR OLR SISTERS, THEODORA, MARGARA, CECILIE AND SOPHIE. HIS FAVORE WAS CECILIE, LOVELY, CHEERFUL AND TEN YEARS HIS SENR. IN 1931, CECILIE MARRIED THE HANDSOME GE DONAT, GRAND DE OF HSE, WH HER LTLE BROTHER SERVG AS TRA BEARER.MOST POPULARTHE ELVIS PRLEY WE DIDN’T SEE ELVISBY KATEY RICHRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHELON MK’S TWTER WANTED TO TELL TMP ABOUT A SEALED SEARCH WARRANT AND POTENTIALLY F--K UP JACK SMH’S CRIMAL INVTIGATNBY BS LEVBUT TRAGEDY STCK ON NOVEMBER 16, 1937, WHEN WHAT TIME MAGAZE REFERRED TO AS THE “THE CURSE OF HSE” STCK AGA. DONAT AND EIGHT-MONTH PREGNANT CECILIE WERE ON THEIR WAY TO ENGLAND TO ATTEND THE WEDDG OF HIS BROTHER PRCE LUDWIG AND MARGARET GEDS. TWO OF THEIR THREE CHILDREN WERE ON BOARD AS WAS DONAT’ MOTHER, ELEONORE.ACRDG TO REPORTS, THE PLANE WENT DOWN OUTSI OF OSTEND, BELGIUM AFTER CRASHG TO A SMOKTACK. IT APPEARED THE PILOT HAD BEEN ATTEMPTG A BLD EMERGENCY LANDG, AND THE WRECKAGE GAVE A CLUE AS TO WHY. NEXT TO THE BODY OF CECILIE WAS A NEWBORN BABY- LEADG VTIGATORS TO BELIEVE CECILIE HAD GONE TO PREMATURE LABOR WHILE THE AIR, G THE PILOT TO ATTEMPT TO LAND.STUDYG AT GORDONSTOUN, 16-YEAR-OLD PRCE PHILIP WAS PROFOUND SHOCK WHEN TOLD OF HIS BELOVED SISTER’S ATH. HE WENT TO THE FUNERAL, HELD NAZI NTROLLED DARMSTADT, AND WALKED NEXT TO HIS SISTER SOPHIE’S HBAND, CHRISTOPH OF HSE, A FUTURE LUFTWAFFE OFFICER DRSED AN SS UNIFORM. HE LATER SAID THAT CHRISTOPH WAS “A VERY GENTLE PERSON,” AND WAS “KD AND HAD A GOOD SENSE OF HUMOUR. SO, HE WAS ACTUALLY THE PLETE OPPOSE OF WHAT YOU WOULD EXPECT.”ACRDG TO INGRID SEWARD, OTHER ROYAL FAY MEMBERS WORE THE FAMO BROWN SHIRTS, AND THRONGS OF MONERS GAVE THE NAZI SALUTE AS THE FUNERAL RTEGE PASSED. THE REPERCSNS OF HIS FAY’S NAZI TI HAVE REVERBERATED THROUGHOUT THE S, EVEN THOUGH PHILIP VALIANTLY SERVED FOR THE BRISH DURG WWII. ACRDG TO SEWARD, DURG THE 2008 QUT TO PRCS DIANA AND DODI AL-FAYED’S ATHS, MOHAMED AL-FAYED CLAIMED PHILIP WOULD NEVER ACCEPT DODI TO THE FAY. DURG ONE EXAMATN, MOHAMED DISPLAYED HIS “PROOF.” SEWARD WR:“ALL THIS STEMS OM YOUR BELIEF THAT PRCE PHILIP IS NOT ONLY A RACIST BUT A NAZI AS WELL?” AL-FAYED REPLIED: “THAT’S RIGHT. IT IS TIME TO SEND HIM BACK TO GERMANY WHERE HE ME OM. IF YOU WANT TO KNOW HIS ORIGAL NAME, ENDS WH FRANKENSTE.” HE STARTED WAVG ABOUT A PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN 1937 AT THE FUNERAL.THOUGH HIS SISTERS WERE BANNED OM HIS 1947 WEDDG BEE OF THEIR GERMAN HBANDS, THEY WERE VED TO THE QUEEN’S 1953 RONATN. HIS LAST SURVIVG SISTER SOPHIE, SAID TO BE FUNNY AND FORTHRIGHT, OFTEN JOED HIM AT THE ROYAL WDSOR HORSE SHOW. SHE DIED 2001, PHILIP’S LAST REMAG LK TO HIS FASCATG FAY.MORE GREAT STORI FROM VANY FAIR— THE SHOCKGLY MELANCHOLY BRNEY SPEARS DOC YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF— R.O. KWON’S LETTER TO ASIAN WOMEN WHOSE HEARTS ARE STILL BREAKG— ANGELA JOLIE OFFERS TO TTIFY AGAST BRAD PT DRAWN-OUT DIVORCE— THE 14 BT RETOL PRODUCTS FOR A SK REBOOT— A BRISH CONSTUTN EXPERT EXPLAS WHY THE ROYALS ARE TRAPPED— CRACKG THE CASE OF LONDON’S ACROBATIC RARE-BOOK THIEV— HOW A JURASSIC PARK ROLLER COASTER GOT ATTACKED BY ACTUAL RAPTORS— FROM THE ARCHIVE: THE OMO SIGNS TED AMMON’S EAST HAMPTON MURR— SERENA WILLIAMS, MICHAEL B. JORDAN, GAL GADOT, AND MORE ARE G TO YOUR FAVORE SCREEN APRIL 13–15. GET YOUR TICKETS TO VANY FAIR’S COCKTAIL HOUR, LIVE! HERE.HADLEY HALL MEAR

I did wre about Prce, but even wh that assignment and the others I later turned down, I was adamant about one thg: I would not be divg to certa aspects of Prce’s life, like his reported views on gay marriage.

’ Gay marriage, whatever. ”When asked about his perspective on social issu—gay marriage, abortn—Prce tapped his Bible and said, “God me to earth and saw people stickg wherever and dog wh whatever, and he jt cleared all out.