Prince Philip crashes into PR disaster

Pod Save The King

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News Commentary, News, Society & Culture

3.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Prince Philip walked away after his Landrover was involved in a crash near the Sandringham estate - and straight into a PR disaster.The proudly independent Duke of Edinburgh has always loved driving. He has a reputation as a daredevil, even apparently threatening to throw the Queen out of the car when she didn't like the speed he was going.Initial relief that he walked away unscathed merged with concern for the 97-year-old continuing to drive. But his reappearance two days later driving without a seat belt caused anger, as has the treatment of the others involved in the collision.Pod Save the Queen host Ann Gripper is joined by Daily Mirror royal editor Russell Myers to discuss whether it is the end of the road for the Duke of Edinburgh behind the wheel. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	POD Save the Queen!
0:05.0	Hello and welcome back to POD Save the Queen, the Daily Mirror's Royal Podcast.
0:11.0	I'm your host Anne Gripper and I joined Russell Myers via Skype a little bit earlier.
0:18.0	He's been pretty busy the last few days, but he had a little bit of time before he dashed away on his next assignment.
0:24.4	Apologies if the audio is a little bit fuzzy in places but I thought it was a good
0:29.2	opportunity to catch up with Russell and talk about the last few days since Prince
0:34.3	Phillips car crash which have turned into a bit of a PR disaster for the royal
0:38.6	family. I mean that day out in Birkenhead with Megan and Harry a week ago it
0:42.2	must feel a long time ago Russell. in I mean the Royal Family it's getting worse and worse over the last few days so it has felt
0:55.0	like an awful long time.
0:57.6	So let's go back right up until Prince Philip's horrific car crash.
1:05.0	Thursday, sort of the afternoon evening,
1:07.8	we would notify Royal Correspondence
1:10.1	and notify that the Duke of Edinburgh
1:12.1	had been involved in this crash and at first
1:14.8	at the you know Buckingham Palace were playing it down and I think I'm not too sure
1:19.4	whether they were aware of the severity of it.
1:23.2	Certainly they had the briefing that he was involved in this accident
1:27.5	and that he wasn't injured.
1:29.6	But then when pictures and eyewitness statements
1:32.2	started coming out and the real nature of what had happened. pictures and eyewitness statements started to emerge it was it was
1:36.7	altogether quite shocking to be honest. I've seen the picture of a you know a
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