If there was one person who could afford to tell Queen Elizabeth II their four truths, it was her husband, Prince Philip, who died last April. In the pages of the new issue of Paris Match, published Wednesday, November 3, 2021, we learn that the 95-year-old monarch was entitled to surprising nicknames from her late husband the Duke of Edinburgh!
The public is familiar with the humor of Charles’s father, Anne, Andrew and Edward. Faced with difficulties or controversies that she thought were insurmountable, Elizabeth II was always able to confide and find comfort with Prince Philip. “He defused his anxieties and his cockroaches with a wit, a simple joke, any, cruel, tender or in the military genre”, we learn in the pages of the magazine. Ignoring protocol, the former soldier readily mocked his wife’s look and spoke of “royal stuff” to qualify the formal attire.
“He also helped her age, especially when she was in her sixties. […] He gave her ‘my little sausage‘, then, in allusion to her permanent curls aligned with a line like on Louis XVI wigs, ‘my little cauliflower head ‘“,
If Elizabeth II makes the front page of Paris Matchis that she is talking about her a lot at the moment. After a remarkable and disturbing outing, with a cane in her hand, the sovereign had to be hospitalized and was forced to rest, on the orders of her doctors. Big absent from the COP26, she passed the torch to her eldest son, Prince Charles, on whom she can now count.
As a reminder, Prince Philip also nicknamed his wife “Lilibet”, middle name of the daughter of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.