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<blockquote data-quote="timetraveller" data-source="post: 137751" data-attributes="member: 456"><p>Well, if we are going to be telling 'Philip stories' here is one. When I was a very young astronomer, probably about 19 or 20, I worked in the Time Department of the Royal Greenwich Observatory at Herstmonceux Castle in East Sussex. This was where the Greenwich Time Signals came from. On one occasion an official visit was organised for Philip and his entourage to come down from London, about sixty miles distance. The time service was run on an international basis with many countries transmitting and receiving each others time signals by radio so we had some fairly fancy radio receivers. Some bright spark knew the police car radio frequency and set up the system to listen to the police as they monitored the road traffic on the way down. Somewhere, not far south of London, the royal entourage was moving so quickly that Mr Plod lost them for a considerable length of time. Eventually, after a very short time, the two royal cars arrived, one an Aston Martin and the other one of those very large Austins (?Sheerline) with sharp edges that had a look of a Rolls Royce about it. What was under the bonnet of that car I have no idea but it could not have been a standard bit of kit.</p><p>Perhaps the biggest surprise to all of us was that Phillip was wearing make up, lipstick and rouge, presumably having been so advised by the royal hangers on that such was required for either television of newspaper shots. Not many years later I was on the 'tele' discussing some of the astronomical discoveries I had made and there was no suggestion of make up, although as I recall they did comb my hair. The rest might have been beyond hope.</p><p>If it was Philip's advisors who were responsible for the make up advice then it just shows why the royals who rely on these people can get into trouble.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="timetraveller, post: 137751, member: 456"] Well, if we are going to be telling 'Philip stories' here is one. When I was a very young astronomer, probably about 19 or 20, I worked in the Time Department of the Royal Greenwich Observatory at Herstmonceux Castle in East Sussex. This was where the Greenwich Time Signals came from. On one occasion an official visit was organised for Philip and his entourage to come down from London, about sixty miles distance. The time service was run on an international basis with many countries transmitting and receiving each others time signals by radio so we had some fairly fancy radio receivers. Some bright spark knew the police car radio frequency and set up the system to listen to the police as they monitored the road traffic on the way down. Somewhere, not far south of London, the royal entourage was moving so quickly that Mr Plod lost them for a considerable length of time. Eventually, after a very short time, the two royal cars arrived, one an Aston Martin and the other one of those very large Austins (?Sheerline) with sharp edges that had a look of a Rolls Royce about it. What was under the bonnet of that car I have no idea but it could not have been a standard bit of kit. Perhaps the biggest surprise to all of us was that Phillip was wearing make up, lipstick and rouge, presumably having been so advised by the royal hangers on that such was required for either television of newspaper shots. Not many years later I was on the 'tele' discussing some of the astronomical discoveries I had made and there was no suggestion of make up, although as I recall they did comb my hair. The rest might have been beyond hope. If it was Philip's advisors who were responsible for the make up advice then it just shows why the royals who rely on these people can get into trouble. [/QUOTE]
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