when prince Philip evoked the rumors about his infidelities

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Elizabeth II and Prince Philip were married for more than seventy years, until the latter’s death. A solid union, despite rumors of adultery.

Queen Elizabeth II was only 8 years old when she met the one who would become her future husband. “He has, quite simply, been my strength and my support for all these years”she said of Prince Philip on their fiftieth wedding anniversary in 1997. However, during their marriage certain rumors had emerged, suggesting that the queen’s consort had been unfaithful. In the Netflix series The Crown, the question is even subtly raised, when the queen discovers a photo of the dancer Galina Oulanova, in the personal belongings of her husband. The series based on the British Crown, however, takes great care not to never confirm or deny the famous rumors.

During an interview, Prince Philip ended up responding to a journalist who dared to ask him about the rumours, reports The Independent. “Have you ever thought that for years I never went anywhere without a policeman accompanying me? So how on earth could I get away with this kind of stuff?”, he justified. Althoughno proof of his infidelities known, some biographers agree that the queen was well and truly aware affairs of her husband.

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Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, a foolproof couple

In his work Queen Elizabeth II: Her Life in Our Timespublished in 2011, author Sarah Bradford leaves little room for doubt. “The Duke of Edinburgh has had affairs… real affairs and more than one, she writes. He has affairs and the queen accepts him. I think she thinks men are like that.” Moreover, in 1956, the rumors are such that Philip Mountbatten is sent for a “Commonwealth Tour”, a decision which would have had the objective of keep him away from Buckingham and contain the scandal. Despite everything, the Queen was able to count, during almost seventy years of reign, on the support of her husband, she who was only 25 years old when she came to succeed her father, King George VI.

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