Bearded Philip’s solo world tour

CHRISTMAS 1956 and a bearded Philip, (Matt Smith, left) two months into the world tour he’d embarked on, broadcasts to the nation from the Britannia. Had he a beard by then? Certainly by the time he and his equerry explored The Gambia by canoe the following February (right), he had what the Navy call a ‘full set’, but they were travelling in rough country.