

When Edward decided to leave the Royal Marines in 1987 after just four months, Philip was "most sympathetic". Seward added: "'Leave him with me, Mabel,' the Queen would say some mornings to the nanny, and he'd be left with his mother, playing on the floor of her study while she worked at her desk on her State papers." We use cookies to give you the best possible experience. Free delivery worldwide on over 20 million titles. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading My Husband and I: The Inside Story of 70 Years of the Royal Marriage. Discover Book Depositorys huge selection of Ingrid Seward books online. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. And the duty and discipline comes from him Philip."Īnd the Queen liked to spend as much time as she could with her children and would let the nanny leave Edward playing on the floor of the study as she went over State papers. My Husband and I: The Inside Story of 70 Years of the Royal Marriage - Kindle edition by Seward, Ingrid. Thus Philip became the first royal father in modern history to witness the arrival of one of his children. The Queen, by then aged 37, had asked him to be there she'd been keenly reading women's magazines that stressed the importance of involving fathers in childbirth and had become fascinated by the idea.

She shared: "The Duke of Edinburgh was actually holding his wife's hand as their youngest was born on March 10, 1964. One of the first pictures of the new born Prince Andrew shows the baby in the Queen Elizabeth II's arms, 22 March 1960 in Buckingham Palace
