POD Save the King!

Hello and welcome to POD Save the King.

My name is Zobe Foursee, I'm your host this week and I'm joined this week by Dr. Tessa Dunlock for a very special episode about her new book, Elizabeth and Philip, which focuses on the late monarch and Prince Philip's love story, romance and kind of as well as that how they supported each other

through a truly unique life I think. So hi Tessa, welcome to the podcast the podcast hello thank you for having me now I

absolutely love this book it was such an interesting take on the you know them as a

couple and there's almost like the three sections of it I found

there's kind of their young you know their young romance and falling in love but there's also

how they supported each other and you know the different sides of it and then how the

the family monarchy and how it will look going forward which is the kind of different aspects that I wanted to

chat to you about but let's go back to the start and kind of earlier in the book because

you spoke a lot about the kind of obviously the young meeting they met and

fell in love that's something that we you know we've heard a fair bit over the years but what I found

really interesting is that you know the kind of concerns that perhaps that you found in your

research for this book about Philip as a match for the then princess Elizabeth and the Queen.

But one lovely line that you said was that he was her first choice and she was his,

which I thought was really really lovely. Yeah it's

interesting that early period I knew quite a lot about forms of dating in World War II because of books I'd previously written and I'd worked a lot of

with the books I'd previously written and I'd worked a lot with their generation

and actually I lean on some of my friends I now consider them from that generation,

the very last centenarians and non-generarians, to guide me through the importance of their relationship kind of symbolically, but also guide me through the etiquette at the time and the form. The Philip famously meets Elizabeth

meaningfully when she's 13 and really from then on is keeping a bit of an eye on her, writing to her when he's overseas her, his cousin ribbing him saying, hey, she's just a a baby what are you doing writing to cousin Elizabeth when he at the same time is dating very beautiful osla Benning when he's back in Britain that is when he's on leave and I have that on good authority because

Pamela Rose one of my Bletchley girls was a friend of oscillers and remembers this Greek prince

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