Prince philip's brutal snub exposed amid vj day 75: 'he's a dog! '

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The life of Prince Philip, 99, has been analysed after his military record resurfaced in reports honouring the 75th Anniversary of Victory over Japan Day (VJ Day) – the official end of World


War 2. At the age of 21, Queen Elizabeth II’s husband was one of the youngest to hold the position of first lieutenant, second-in-command, in the Royal Navy. But unearthed accounts reveal


harsh descriptions about the royal and how his overeagerness was critiqued in surprising comments. While the Royal Family often remain secretive about their private life and affairs,


accounts regarding The Firm have been fictionalised in the Netflix show ‘The Crown’.  The role of Prince Philip was first undertaken by the former BBC ‘Doctor Who’ star Matt Smith before


successor Tobias Menzies took over in 2018.  This week, Jonathan Pryce, of HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones’ was named as the new actor to portray the Duke of Edinburgh. During a private dinner with


the royals, Smith revealed that Prince Phillip had never watched the show and when asked about it he was told: “Don’t. Be. Ridiculous!” The actor had his doubts over whether that was “true


or not” and suggested he may just have been posturing to show he was “a bit of a cool cat”. He told The Guardian in 2017: “That’s what I love about him – he’s done what he wants, when he


wants, how he wants, with whom he wants. He hasn’t asked permission. And his wife’s the Queen.” Smith joked that he was a “lowly middle-classer” by comparison to the royal, but felt they had


a shared love of sports team camaraderie and playful mockery.  He added: “I grew up surrounded by lads and I like that culture... you can take each other down, and that still exists between


me and my mates.  “We get together and we tear each other to bits and we laugh. And in the tearing each other to bits, there’s something about it that entertains me, I suppose.  “But also,


at the end of that, you have a sporting endeavour or whatever it is together and I like that sense of a team. I think Philip liked all that, too.” But royal biographer Philip Eade, who


penned ‘Young Prince Philip: His Turbulent Early Life’ had a contrasting view of the Duke.  He wrote: “Tall and athletic with the looks of a Viking god, Philip at 17 was already attractive


to women.  “[His aunt] Aspasia’s daughter, Alexandra, described him as ‘very amusing, gay, full of life and energy and a tease’. DON'T MISS Meghan Markle’s awkward reaction in


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 [ANALYSIS] “He reminded her of ‘a huge, hungry dog; perhaps a friendly collie who never had a basket of his own and responded to every overture with eager tail-wagging’.” Peter Morgan, who


created ‘The Crown’, doubted the take on Prince Philip but confessed that his early life was troubled with “complexity”. He told the Evening Standard in 2017: “He’s a strong flavour. I find


him extraordinarily interesting. His childhood – again, you couldn’t make it up.” Those difficult years were channeled into the second series of the show, which starred Smith and Claire Foy


as the Queen. Morgan added that the installment from 1956 to 1964 took the actors to “the outer edge” of where they could portray the roles.  The show’s producer Stephen Daldry gushed about


royal during an interview with The Daily Telegraph in 2016: “Prince Philip is a moderniser, a radical, I love him.”   A religious “cargo cult” located on Tanna, an island in the South


Pacific, are claimed to worship him like a deity.  In pidgin English he is known as “Nambawan Bigfala Blong Missus Kwin”, which translates to “Number one big fella, Queen’s Consort”.