He had been a public figure for more than seven decades, but a blockbuster TV series introduced a different side of Prince Philip to a new generation.
Often derided as an out-of-touch racist, the Duke of Edinburgh was known more for his public gaffes and missteps on the world stage — and an ill-fated Australian knighthood — than his achievements or as a man in his own right.
Netflix's The Crown showed a more nuanced view of a man struggling with life beside the Queen — without glossing over his brusque personality, cantankerous behaviour or rude one-liners.
Philip Eade, the British author of Prince Philip: The Turbulent Early Life of the Man Who Married Queen Elizabeth II, said the show depicted an "alpha male" who traded his own aspirations for those of his wife.
"It helped humanise him," Eade told the New York Times. "And it helps you empathise with him."
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)Prince Philip, who died last week aged 99, has so far been portrayed by two actors: Matt Smith, for the first two seasons, and Tobias Menzies for seasons 3 and 4. Jonathan Pryce takes over in season 5.
While the series paints a fascinating picture of the Duke, it does blend facts with fabrication and embellishment.
Prince Philip was "furious" about one episode where the showrunners mixed fact and fiction in a "shockingly malicious way" over the death of his sister in a plane crash, according to Queen biographer Sally Bedell Smith.
Prince Philip biographer Ingrid Seward told the New York Times that she didn't think either actor nailed the part.
"They make him seem grumpy and bored," said Seward, the author of Prince Philip Revealed. "He was never bored. He led a really active, packed, busy life."
Keeping that in mind, the following episodes focus on Prince Philip and give some insight into the man behind the titles:
Episode 1, Season 1: Wolferton Splash
The series starts with Philip making the first of many sacrifices for his future Queen — renouncing his titles and citizenship of Denmark and Greece, and taking the name Philip Mountbatten. Princess Elizabeth steals a glimpse from the next room.
It's the day before their wedding, and a nervous Elizabeth says he has 24 hours to decide whether he still wants to go through with it.
"It's too late. I've signed myself away," Philip says.
"Or won the greatest prize on Earth," she replies.
The early days of their marriage in Malta are carefree, but as King George IV's health declines and the family returns to England, it is clear their world is about to change dramatically.
On a hunting trip to Wolferton Splash, Philip sits on a boat with his father-in-law.
"You understand, the titles, the dukedom, they're not the job," George says.
"She is the job. She is the essence of your duty. Loving her, protecting her.
"Of course, you'll miss your career but doing this for her, doing this for me, there may be no greater act of patriotism or love."
"I understand, sir."
The king's reply is foreshadowing: "Do you, boy? Do you really?"
Other season 1 episodes to watch: Episode 3 Windsor, where Prince Philip tries to have his children take his surname Mountbatten, instead of Windsor; Episode 5 Smoke and Mirrors on his heavy involvement on plans for the coronation.
Episode 3, Season 2: Lisbon
The tension between being a loyal consort to a monarch and a husband bubble over in this episode. After months apart while Prince Philip undertakes a royal tour, the royal couple's reunion is tainted by the scandalous divorce of Philip's private secretary Michael Parter and the rumours of infidelity that follow the Prince.
"You're lost. You're lost in your role and you're lost in yourself," the Queen tells Philip.
"I realise this marriage has turned out to be something quite different to what we imagined and we both find ourselves in a…"
"Prison," Philip offers, before complaining that he is outranked by his eight-year-old son.
With divorce off the table, Elizabeth makes her husband a prince to boost his standing in their household.
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)Episode 9, Season 2: Paterfamilias
Two father-and-son relationships are explored here: Philip and his father, Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, and the trickle-down effect that had on his fragile bond with his own first-born son, Charles.
Here, we return to Prince Philip's childhood boarding school, Gordonstoun, and scenes of him leaving his family in Germany — Nazi armbands and all. His four older sisters have all married German princes, and some are members of the Nazi Party, including Cecilie, who is depicted as his favourite sister.
Philip's life has been full of upheaval — exiled, his mother put in an asylum, his father moving to Monte Carlo — and a new school in a new country is next. As Europe begins to descend into the horrors of World War II, it isn't easy to settle in.
Next, Cecilie is killed in a plane crash — which happened in real life, but not under the circumstances depicted in The Crown.
Philip credits the rigours of the boarding school for putting his life back on track, and is determined Charles be sent there too, instead of to Eton College.
"Gordonstoun is the right place for him. It's no exaggeration to say that school made me, and it can make Charles," he says.
But the Scottish school is a "living hell" for Charles, and strains their relationship.
Episode 4, Season 3: Bubbikins
Prince Philip, more than any other royal in his generation, is eager to modernise his family's place in a changing world.
An interview on the US show Meet the Press gives him a taste for television, and he is instrumental in setting up a BBC documentary film crew to follow the royal family over the course of a few months to see inside their "normal" life. It is a complete disaster.
At the same time, his semi-estranged mother Princess Alice flees to England from a restive Athens where she lived in a convent.
Her fascinating story — living in exile, being diagnosed with schizophrenia and being medically mistreated, becoming a nun, hiding Jews from the Nazis in Greece — is worth its own show, but here we get an insight into the difficulty of Philip's fractured childhood.
Episode 7, Season 3: Moondust
It's 1969, man is about to land on the moon and Prince Philip is in Buckingham Palace, contemplating the meaning of life — or at least his own purpose. He looks on in awe as the minutiae of royal life bubbles on around him. Meanwhile, his wife has penned a note for the astronauts to leave on the moon.
While he did definitely meet the Apollo 11 crew, it's not clear that the Prince was as obsessed with the mission as he's portrayed to be in this episode. It does, however, tell a neat story of a middle-aged prince trying to make his mark.
While the scenes with the priests in the newly established St Georges House are also likely fabricated, the centre itself — built around the exploration of faith and philosophy — in the grounds of Windsor is one of the achievements of which the Duke of Edinburgh was most proud.
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While this episode mainly offers a glimpse into the Queen's awkward relationships with her children, it also peels back the covers on the workings of the nearly grown-up family.
When Margaret Thatcher confesses to having a favourite child, the Queen can't believe it, never having thought of having one herself.
Prince Philip's answer, however, comes quickly: his favourite is the no-nonsense Anne.
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