Adam Macqueen

Sabah, do you want to come in with a wild guess?

Shall I just do the... Go with Prince Philip.

That was quite frightening actually.

I haven't got an answer.

You could definitely get half a point.

Oh, it was Margaret, was it?

No, it was Philip.

It was implications, but he was... Well, let me give you the translations that were provided from the French papers.

La Reine Elisabeth is spending nights alone while Prince Philip sips champagne with girls from a ballet troupe in Mexico.

He was, to be fair, on a royal trip to Mexico by himself at that point.

It wasn't that he just kind of laid down an argument and he stormed out and gone all the way to Mexico.

It was a solo nine-day tour.

But according to the French press, as reported at this point in Private Eye in 1964, Elizabeth was toujours triste, toujours seule, always alone, always sad.

She cannot go on.

She has decided to support no more of it in future.

She's on the edge of a nervous breakdown on the brink of the abyss.

She is no longer our proud and haughty queen.

She did manage to carry on for several decades after that.

French press have always been good on the royals.

Well, it's a bit like, do you remember the National Enquirer for ages, for about 10 years, just kept running a headline that just said, Queen Elizabeth at death's door, which is one of those headlines that eventually was going to be true and eventually was, of course, in 2022.