Queen and Prince Philip have an 'amazing' romance says expert

The Queen is renowned for maintaining her composure at all times when on official duty throughout her long career on the throne. But even Her Majesty is said to have lost her temper at times and once even forced Prince Philip to flee the room, according to expert Elena Mora. The royal commentator claimed the situation was so tense between the royal couple during their 1954 tour of Australia that the Duke of Edinburgh was chased out of the bungalow hosting them with a tennis racket.

Speaking to Tv2000’s show ‘Bel Tempo si Spera,’ Ms Mora said: “They were very young, they were in Australia, and they were in a bungalow.

“It was assumed that the Queen would do the traditional photoshoot with koalas and kangaroos. Cameras were not like today, so they had to be positioned in time, prepared.

“The cameraman was preparing everything and, at one point, he saw Prince Philip running out of the bungalow chased by a pair of tennis shoes and a tennis racket.

“And a scream from the Queen could be heard saying, ‘Come back, come back.’ He diligently went back.”

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Ms Mora said the Australian crew setting up outside of the bungalow immediately decided to get rid of the film they had accidentally captured showing the couple rowing.

She continued: “The cameraman rightly took his film, took it out, put it to the light and said to the security man, ‘Take it to the Queen as my present.’

“The Queen came out after a few minutes, thanked them with sandwiches and said, ‘well, what do you expect me to do now? It happens in all marriages, undaunted.”

Author Ingrid Seward said “tempers were very frayed” during the tour, the first Her Majesty had embarked on since succeeding her father, George VI, in 1952.

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Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh had been expected to visit Australia two years earlier but had to return to the UK immediately after the king died while they were en route.

Ms Seward said the couple has been known to clash at times in over 70 years of marriage, with the royal author suggesting the Duke of Edinburgh’s “sharp” demeanour proved to be challenging for Her Majesty.

She said: “He was quite sharp with his wife.

“He used to drive at top speed everywhere, which would make her very nervous. So she would start to take deep breaths.

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“He would then tell her, ‘If you carry on breathing like that, I’ll put you out of the car.’

“There was a time when a person sitting next to her said, ‘Why don’t you tell him off?’ She said, ‘Because I know he will stop the car and put me out!’”

At the time of the Australian row, the Queen and Prince Philip were still recovering from an earlier disagreement on the name their family would use publicly.

The Duke of Edinburgh expressed his disappointment at being forced from the Government to agree his children with Her Majesty would be known as Windsor rather than Mountbatten.

Only in 1960, before Prince Andrew’s birth, the Government relented and agreed to have the male-line descendants of the Queen use the surname Mountbatten-Windsor if and when a surname would be required.

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