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PRINCE PHILIP: THE PLOT TO MAKE A KING, 9PM, CH4

DESPITE being the Queen’s third cousin, 70 years ago, Prince Philip was seen as an outsider (‘Some of his family were married to Germans’). Supported by exclusive interviews with close relatives, plus unpublished documents and terrific archive footage, this engaging film charts the ‘dynastic power struggle’ behind the Queen’s marriage — on one side, the royal and political establishment; on the other, Philip’s uncle, Lord Louis Mountbatten, a ‘ruthlessly ambitious’ charmer who was determined that his nephew would marry the princess and become the future ‘quasi-king’.