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Her Majesty’s mother wanted the young princess to marry a grenadier guard or English aristocrat, according to experts. Channel 5 documentary ‘The Queen Mother: War & Widowhood’ airs on Saturday.
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the Queen’s mother, is said to have had reservations over the Duke of Edinburgh due to his German family ties.
Speaking on the documentary, Dr Chandrika Kaul, a historian at St Andrews, said: “Part of the Queen’s reservations about Prince Philip was the family baggage that came with him, and particular the Mountbattens.”
Prince Philip, who died aged 99 last month, was born into the Greek and Danish royal families.
But the Duke also had German family ties through his mother’s side, as she was born a Princess of Battenberg.
Louis Mountbatten, Earl of Burma, was the brother of Philip’s mother, Princess Alice.
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Royal author Hugo Vickers claims the Queen Mother saw him as a “foreigner” and did not think he should be part of the British Royal Family.
He said: “What her mother wanted was a grenadier guard, and Elizabeth [Bowes-Lyon] put a number of grenadier guard officers in her path.”
Mr Vickers claimed that the Queen Mother “had a natural distrust and dislike of foreigners, particularly Germans”.
He added: “She didn’t like Germans because her brother Fergus had been killed in the First World War. And Prince Philip had a lot of German blood.”
Despite her mother’s apprehensions, the Queen and Prince Philip married in 1947 at Westminster Abbey in London.
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