How the series 'the Crown' changed the image of the Duke of Edinburgh

The recent death of Duke Philippe of Edinburgh has become the news of the week. The husband of Queen Elizabeth II of England has died at the age of 99 after a life always in the background in the English royal family It is curious that he was a man who never made confessions about his private life and has always been considered a character discreet and a bit enigmatic about which all kinds of rumors were told. He hated the press and did not make statements, although some of his comments on his visits to other countries and receptions were quite controversial. That is why for many his personal image changed radically when the Netflix series The Crown brought out completely unknown aspects of his life. The Crown The life of a discreet man As for other personalities of British royalty, the Netflix series has become one of the few references of his life unknown to the general public. The character of Philip of Edinburgh has been played in his youth by the actor Matt Smith and in his maturity by Tobias Menzies. The series reveals the life of a tormented man with quite traumatic chapters such as his hard childhood in which he suffered the abandonment of his own family, the death of his sister or the role of companion of the queen who forced him to occupy the British royal house. The creator of the series The Crown Peter Morgan has been based on the statements of the protagonists and books published by historians and biographers. But it must always be borne in mind that it is only a series and, therefore, a fiction in which it is intended to make the lives of the characters known with some reliability. A complicated childhood The Crown series plunges into childhood and childhood. adolescence of Philip of Edinburgh.The Duke was born on the Greek island of Corfu in 1921 and was the son of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and Princess Alice of Battenberg. When he was only two years old, his family had to live in exile between France and Germany. His family moved to the UK when he was just seven years old. One of Felipe’s great traumas was that at age 10 his father left his mother to go live with a lover. As a consequence, his mother was admitted to a sanatorium after being diagnosed with schizophrenia .. In addition, his sister Cecilia died in a plane crash with her husband and children when he was only 16 years old. This sad episode was explained in the series implying that in his family circle the young Duke of Edinburgh was blamed for the death of his sister and her family. He had promised her that he would visit her in Germany and in the end canceled the trip. Cecilia changed her plans and took a plane to go to a wedding. During the funeral, Felipe’s father has a terrible conversation in which he blames him for the death of his favorite daughter. This episode was denied by sources close to the Duke of Edinburgh. The Crown – What It Made Him to Be the Duke of Edinburgh – Actor Matt Smith plays an elegant man who marries a young Elizabeth Queen Elizabeth. His physical attractiveness is presented as one of the charms of the young man who fell in love with the inexperienced Isabel. But upon marrying, he begins to rebel with his supporting role in British royalty. One of the most controversial fragments of the series is when Felipe gets angry with the queen for losing the title of Prince of Greece and Denmark. He had not only had to renounce his religion but also this title.In addition, in the series he is related to the Profumo case, a sexual scandal that kept London in suspense in 1960. In some moments of the series it is implied that the Duke attended these erotic parties. Obviously from Buckingham Palace this was flatly denied. It is also told how throughout his life the Duke felt like a secondary in the palace and suffered greatly from that opaque fate. In addition, he is drawn as a cold person with strange reactions like those he had at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth. Felipe de Edimburgo had a complex relationship with his son Carlos who did not feel understood by either of his parents. In the last two seasons, actor Tobias Menzies plays a tired man disgusted with being only a secondary. His frustration turns him into a person obsessed with order and religion who resigns himself to occupying the plot that has been assigned to him in life.