From a historical point of view I was always intrigued by Prince Philip's childhood visits to Germany, and the year he spent at Kurt Hahn's Schule Schloss Salem in 1933 witnessing (from a child's point of view at least) the collapse of Weimar the first months of the Nazi regime

This was rather glossed over by biographers/interviewers despite being fascinating - when a French friend sat with Prince Philip at a dinner years back and said 'What are we going to talk about?!' I suggested this but dammit he said it would have felt awkward to ask..

..The US historian Jonathan Petropoulous did (impressively) get an interview with Prince Philip and asked him about this - he was quite open that his family were sympathetic to the Nazis in the anti-Communist/anti-Republican style of many German aristocrats..

..They feared the alternative to Hitler was a Communist take-over and had 'inhibitions about the jews' and were 'jealous of their success'. In 1933 'There was a sense of hope after the depressing chaos of the Weimar Republic'..