What the Crown Took From Prince Philip | Part 4 #historyshorts #royalfamily

Added: 2026-05-27

[00:00:00]Prince Philip became the only man in Britain who could not give his name to his own children. Philip had sacrificed the naval career he loved to stand beside Elizabeth believing the one thing he could still give his children was his family name, Mountbatten. But after the monarchy had already reinvented itself once before to survive a crisis, the palace refused to change again. Philip slowly realized that even inside their marriage Elizabeth was no longer just his wife. She was the institution itself. Philip later admitted he felt like the only man in the country not allowed to give his name to his own children. Years later Elizabeth reached a compromise, Mountbatten-Windsor. But by then he had already learned the hardest truth about loving a queen, the crown always came first. And if Philip's sacrifice was his identity, Princess Margaret's would be much harder, the man she loved. The story continues in part five.