Prince Philip may not have grown up in a time of selfies and social media but that doesn’t mean his past can’t come back to haunt him.
This week, the 95-year-old was reunited with one of his former navy colleagues Commander Keith Evans, who shed some pretty fascinating insight into what dear old Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark was like during his formative years before he married Queen Elizabeth.
“He was a bit randy,” Keith explained to reporters during an event at Pangbourne College in Berkshire to celebrate its centenary, where the Queen and Prince Philip were both in attendance.
The Duke enjoyed a successful tenure in the Royal Navy.
If that wasn’t enough, the 97-year-old Commander went on to clarify his statement, adding: “Not a ‘bit.’ Very.”
The Duke and Keith worked together in 1947, the year Lieutenant Moutbatten became engaged to a then-Princess Elizabeth.
“He was 18 months junior. He was then Lieutenant Mountbatten – they had got rid of all that Greek nonsense,” he recalled of their time on the HMS Royal Arthur base in Corsham, Wiltshire.
97-year-old Commander Keith Evans claims Prince Philip was “very randy” when he met him in 1977.
Speaking of his old friend’s retirement from royal duties, Keith congratulated him on his decision.
“I think it is rather good news. He will do what he wants rather than what she [The Queen] tells him to do,” he said.
While we don’t want to do a deep-dive into the Philip’s rumoured “randiness”, we can’t help but remember one particular story about the royal couple, who will celebrate 70 years of marriage this year.
According to Richard Kay and Geoffrey Levy’s report in the Daily Mail, the Queen and Philip have such a passionate relationship, even after decades of marriage.
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Proof of the zealous nature of their romance is shown in Chief Petty Officer William Evans’ recollection of an encounter upon the stairs of the Hampshire home of the late Earl Mountbatten.
“The young woman’s shrieking was loud and getting louder, but there was laughter in it. ‘Stop it! Philip, stop it, stop it stop it!’ accompanied by the scamper of feet on stairs,” he explains.
“A grinning man was reaching out and pinching her bottom. The laughing Queen, in a blouse and skirt, was ushered by Prince Philip’s pinches and growls all the way to the top of the 80-tread staircase.”
“They were like a pair of teenagers.”
Perhaps the most surprising thing, they weren’t newlyweds when this occurred – they had been married some 15 years.
Despite his former colleague’s admission, Prince Philip and The Queen were in great spirits at Pangbourne College this week.
