😍 2022-11-16 04:25:00 – Paris/France.
Hare raised him last Sunday in Sunday time hugo vickers, one of the most reliable analysts of the British monarchy: the Duke of Edinburgh consulted his lawyers to file a lawsuit against Netflixproducer of The crown, for certain clues contained in a chapter of the second season of the series, which he considered offensive.
Specifically, La Couronne implies that he tragic death in a plane crash of one of her older sisters, the princess Cecily from Greece, was supposedly due to an unscheduled trip he had to make in November 1937 to Gordonstaun, the british boarding school in which the future wife of Elizabeth II was enrolled.
The officials of the university center would have called her to complain about the disturbances caused by her little brother. It is true that in the mid-1930s, the parents of Philippe and CecileThe princes Andrew and Alice of Greece –born Battenberg–, they had been separated for some time; and that the princess, suffering from schizophrenia and admitted to a Swiss clinic, had not seen her children since 1931.
For his part, he prince andrewwhose role in the Greco-Turkish war of 1921-22 was very controversial, lived quietly on the Côte d'Azur, in the company of his French mistress Andree Rose Godard, who called herself "Countess de la Bigne". Hence the Prince philippe, the only son of the failed marriage, had his four sisters as references. Especially, to Princess Cecileten years older than him.
She had married in 1931 with the Grand Duke George Donatus of Hesse Darmstadthead of the homonymous royal house since October 1937, following the death of his father, the Grand Duke Ernesto Luis.
The inevitable bereavement forced the postponement of the wedding of Prince Louislittle brother of Jorge Donatosecretary to the German ambassador to Britain and future foreign minister of Nazi Germany, Joachim von Ribbentrop. The prince had met in London Margaret Geddeshis future wife, Margaret Geddesknown as "Princess Peg" in European royal circles, daughter of a former cabinet minister in David Lloyd George's Liberal government and former ambassador to the United States.
The new link date has been set for 20th November of 1937 in the British capital. four days before, Jorge Donato Yes Cécileaccompanied by the Grand Duke's mother, the three eldest children of the wedding and the Grand Duchess' lady-in-waiting, took off from frankfurt airport in a Junker three-engine monoplane, owned by the Belgian company Sabena and whose controls were Tony Lambottepilot of King Leopold III.
The flight plan called for a refueling stop near Brussels. However, according to Philippe Eade in the young prince philip Due to "the thick fog coming from the North Sea, they were ordered to drift towards Steene airfield, on the Belgian coast, near Ostend".
And the drama happened: “An eyewitness will later describe having seen the plane descend from the fog and collide with the top of the chimney of a brickyard (…). A wing and one of the engines separated and both slammed into the factory roof. Then, "the rest of the plane flipped over and crashed to the ground in the brick field about 50 yards away, where it immediately burst into flames."
There were no survivors. There was also a theory, not documented at all, that the crash landing happened because the grand duchess she went into labor mid-flight. To the young man Prince philippewho had traveled to Germany that spring to spend a few days on vacation with her sister and brother-in-law, her world fell apart: she planned to go to a family wedding in london and instead had to co-preside over a sordid funeral in Darmstadt.
Sleazy because at 16 his civilian dress was out of place – just like the British sailor uniform of lord louis mountbatten– in the midst of so many Nazi wars. The main members of the burlap house were members of the National Socialist Party – the Grand Dukes Jorge Donato and Cecilia had recently joined – and took the opportunity to show off their ideologized trappings: without going any further, the brothers Cristobal –another brother-in-law of the deceased– and Philip of Hesse Kassel they wore the dress of the SS and of the assault platoons respectively.
Hermann Goering, number two in the regime, attended the funeral. As the historian points out Jonathan Petropoulos in The royal family and the Reich, the crowd that surrounded the streets of Darmstadt greeted the funeral procession by raising their arms and shouting Heil Hitler
Thus, and not otherwise, passed those days of sad memory for the father of Charles III of England. La Couronne is right to reproduce the Darmstadt scenes, but makes a real mistake in attributing to Andrew of Greecealso present at the funeral, a few words from which we can deduce that the drama would not have taken place if they had not traveled the grand duchess un Cecilia in Britain to defend the alleged pranks of his little brother.
It was this slanderous insinuation that scandalized the Duke of Edinburgh and the one that led him to consult his lawyers. Further proof of the pain that the tragedy left the young prince of the time is given by an anecdote that Eade recounts in his biography. A few weeks after the accident, the prince spent the Christmas holidays in Great Britain, invited by the Wernhers, some of his close descendants of the Romanovs.
Well, in the aforementioned book, one of the daughters of this family, ginaremember how the Prince philippe he barely spoke of the tragedy. But later he showed a piece of wood, from the crashed plane. "It was a small piece, but it meant a lot to him," he said. Gina Wernher. Clearer, the water.
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