Netflix’s The Crown portrays Prince Philip as a sex-mad adulterer who cheated on The Queen multiple times
THE new series of The Crown portrays Prince Philip as a sex-mad adulterer cheating on the Queen multiple times.
The Netflix show suggests he was romantically involved with women on a 1956-7 world tour without his wife.
In the drama, the solo journey is described as: “A five-month stag do — whores in every port.”
The second series will be available from December 8 and comes weeks after the royal couple’s 70th wedding anniversary.
But at the drama’s premiere this week, show creator Peter Morgan said he was not trying to attack Her Majesty or the Duke of Edinburgh.
He said: “What I have to do is write a story about people at the centre of British life who are human beings.
“If you’re hoping that tries to pick holes in the royal marriage, I wouldn’t dream of it.
Their marriage is a triumph by any standards.” The ten-part series sees Claire Foy, 33, and Matt Smith, 35, reprise their roles as the Queen and Prince Philip ten years into the royal marriage.
The Queen’s suspicions of cheating are aroused when she finds a picture of a dancer in Philip’s bag.
This is believed to represent Pat Kirkwood, the real life dancer he was linked to.
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Rumours of flings grew when the prince spent five months touring commonwealth countries on the Royal Yacht Britannia.
In the drama he meets native women from Papua New Guinea and Tonga.
His private secretary writes: “Nowhere on earth have we seen such beautiful women. We tear ourselves away, each of us not a little bit, but a great deal, in love.”
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