In The Crown season five, Prince Philip’s relationships with not one but two women serve as focal points.
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walks a careful line in implying what exactly went on between the two: “She’s half your age,” Staunton’s Queen Elizabeth snarls at Philip during a state visit to Russia, where he admits he’s had to seek “companionship” elsewhere. “I don’t want to be asked to give up something when I’ve done nothing wrong,” Pryce’s Philip says back.
In reality, there’s no evidence that the two were anything more than friends – Seward, in her biography, notes that she had seen the pair dancing happily and openly at a ball, an act she interpreted as “totally innocent”, as it suggested they had nothing to hide. Indeed, Penny was embraced publicly by multiple Windsors, not just Prince Philip. In 1991 she stood on the Buckingham Palace balcony for Trooping the Colour with the entire royal family, and in 2006 she contributed to the.
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