“Philip had to apologize in 1999 after a walkabout at an Edinburgh electronics factory when he commented that a fuse box bursting with wires looked “as if it was put in by an Indian.” Royal FamilyPrince Phillip Book:The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil Source: The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil
“Prince Philip’s study in his private quarters at Wood Farm, the house on the Sandringham Estate where he spent much of his retirement years, was as minimal and uncluttered as the boardroom of a ship. His was always the leanest operation of the Palace machine, deploying only two private secretaries, an equerry, and a librarian to execute several hundred royal engagements a year. Despite his peremptory manner, he was by far the most popular member of the family to work for—“very unassuming and knows that it is not always as easy to do something as it is to ask for it be done,” as one household servant put it. In 2008, he gave his Savile Row tailor (John Kent of Norton & Sons) a fifty-one-year-old pair of trousers to be altered.” Royal FamilyPrince Phillip Book:The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil Source: The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil
