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...amazed that you left out the fact that Prince Philip received the first three years of his schooling in an American school at Saint Cloud, near Paris. Here he learned about George Washington long before he knew anything about George1111 and played baseball before he ever heard of cricket. "Those days in the MacJannet Country School," Prince Philip told me, "were the happiest of my life." The enclosed picture [see cut] shows Philip at the school in the fall...
...native of Milwaukee, I feverishly awaited your Oct. 21 issue, anticipating a cover story on the Braves' Lew Burdette. But instead of Burdette (entombed in your Sport section), there was Britain's Prince Philip smugly staring into antiquity. Anyone on Wisconsin Avenue for cricket...
...palmy days, Britain gave the world the dinner jacket, the sandwich, and the cricket bat. In this lesser epoch when a ride to the hounds has given way to the flight from the pound, the British imagination has turned wryly theoretical. From Stephen Potter issued the famed laws of lifemanship. Now, from an unlikely enclave of Empire known as the Raffles Chair of History at the University of Malaya in Singapore, Professor C. (for Cyril) Northcote Parkinson has produced a combination of Potter and the U.S.'s own William H. (The Organization Man) Whyte. Professor Parkinson's book...
...Gordonstoun, Philip reveled in a rigorous routine that included' two icy showers each day, a long, bracing hike before breakfast, hours spent in the company of dour but expert Scots fishermen and boatbuilders. He became captain of the cricket and hockey teams, and "head boy" of the school in his final year. He was "often naughty, never nasty," pitched in at dirty jobs like anyone else (on one school cruise when everybody else was seasick, he did all the cooking and dishwashing). He early proved he could do most things with less effort than other boys, sometimes showed impatience...
Betweentimes, he slipped out of the palace to play polo and cricket, to take his young son sailing. Not even the Queen herself was immune from her husband's restless energy. "I think Prince Philip is mad," she once exclaimed to a palace servant, as her husband, bored stiff with a moment of inactivity, darted out of the palace door in a cocoon of sweaters, to "work up a sweat." During their marriage, Elizabeth has succeeded to some extent in calming her impetuous husband, restraining his often explosive impatience ("Philip," she is often heard to remonstrate...