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Pod Save The King

Royal author Ingrid Seward on Prince Philip

Pod Save The King

Reach Podcasts

News Commentary, News, Society & Culture

3.71K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Ingrid Seward first met Prince Philip in the 70s, describing him as a charming man. Their second meeting didn’t go to plan, when he was unimpressed to learn she wasn’t German and simply walked away from her.Having spent decades covering the royal family as a journalist, editor, author and TV commentator, Ingrid has been there for all the biggest moments - both good and bad.She joins the Mirror’s Lifestyle Editor Zoe Forsey to talk about her new book, Prince Philip Revealed: A Man of his Century.She gives an insight into what the Queen’s husband is like behind the jokes and gaffes, as well as sharing her insights on how he’s taken to the role of great-grandad to George, Charlotte, Louis, Archie and the rest of the younger royals.Ingrid also speaks about her views on the fallout between Prince William and his younger brother Harry, the Prince Andrew ‘situation’ and how the Duchess of Cambridge is thriving. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

POD Save the Queen!

0:03.0

Hello and welcome to POD Save the Queen.

0:08.0

You can probably tell that I'm not your usual host and Gripper.

0:12.0

It's me that we foresee this week and has very kindly for one week only

0:16.6

promoted me from the guest chair to the hosting seat because I'm joined by a very special guest.

0:21.1

I have with me today the editor-in-chief of Majesty magazine and

0:25.4

royal author and kind of all-round royal expert in Grid Seward. So thank you very much

0:29.6

for joining us today. And Greg, how are you?

0:31.2

Well that was a very nice introduction thank you very much.

0:35.4

And so we're here today thank you very much for joining us and to talk about your new book

0:39.5

Prince Philip revealed a man of his century, which is absolutely fantastic.

0:43.8

I loved it.

0:44.8

How did you find writing it?

0:46.9

I found writing it quite difficult actually,

0:49.7

because he's had such a long life, and there's so much to talk about.

0:55.0

So I really wrote about Philip the man and what his reaction was to all the situations that have happened during his and the

1:05.0

the Queen's marriage and obviously before,

1:06.4

but I tried to come to it from a different perspective

1:09.9

and put in a lot of the things

1:12.2

that people don't know about Prince Philip and you know how much he's he's done if you notice which I'm sure everyone that's interested in royalty does he's always walking two steps behind the Queen. He's always in the background. I actually wanted to call the book two steps behind but the publishers thought no one would know what I was talking about and they're probably right.

1:35.0

Okay, so yeah, I was going to talking about the name of the book why did you about the name of the book why did you pick this title that a man of his

1:40.1

century how did you land on that in the end well he is a man of his century. How did you land on that in the end? Well he is a man of his century. To me he is a man of his

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