‘I KNOW I AM RUDE ...BUT IT’S FUN!’
Although Prince Philip published a number of books, he never planned to write an autobiography. ‘I don’t spend a lot of time looking back,’ he said in an interview on his ninetieth birthday. Consequently, we must build a portrait of him from what he says about himself. ‘I know I am rude,’ he once said. ‘But it’s fun.’
It was Prince Philip’s father-in-law, George VI, who said that the House of Windsor was not a family but a firm. This is a tradition that Philip proudly maintains.
It seems, nonetheless, that he the prince is just as outspoken
