Betsypaige
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Adding one for his birthday. I just finished reading A.N. Wilson's biography of Prince Albert. In the notes at the back, he said the Queen was very gracious and helpful and let it be known that a book about Albert was needed.
Then he says he ran into the Duke of Edinburgh while he was in the middle of writing.
"When he heard, he expressed the view, with characteristic forcefulness, that the world did not need 'yet another' book about Prince Albert." Wilson ventured that there had been hardly anything recently written about Albert. The DoE wandered off to speak to someone else, but then returned.
"There is one good aspect," he said. "Prince Albert had a very short life, so you can write a very short book."
(Albert's book was not short.) Philip's book will be long.
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I wonder what Philip's problem was with Albert, lol?