How the Crown made a cruel scandal out of a tragedy. Prince Philip’s favourite sister died in a catastrophic plane crash that wiped out much of her family – yet scriptwriters falsely suggested that the schoolboy prince was somehow to blame
Of all the fictionalisations and inaccuracies in The Crown, none has caused more offence than the claim that a young Prince Philip was in some way at fault for the death of his favourite sister, Cecilie. The third of the five children born to Princess Alice of Battenberg and Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, … Read more