The Royalist Quiz No. 71: Royal Trivia
Question 1
Before his marriage to Princess Elizabeth, why did Prince Philip give her mother a secondhand book of poetry for Christmas?
He decided that the Queen was open to flattery, so told her one of the poems about a beautiful woman could have been written for her
It was all that he could afford
The book had been pilfered from the Windsors by a relative of Prince Philip and so he decided to give it back to win over King George VI
