This would have been my runner-up for best non-fiction read in 2022. I hesitate to say that I enjoyed this biography of Prince Philip's Greek background. It was rather dry reading and seemed to be more about the (short) history of the Greek monarchy as it relied extensively on Greek archival material. However, I felt that it had the missing pieces of Philip's background. The palace spin on Philip was that he was raised by his English grandmother and English uncles (particularly Dickie Mountbatten) and never really connected with his Greek heritage. But the actions taken by Philip's grandmother were all done with the approval of Philip's father Andrew, who loved Greece but had grown disillusioned in exile. He could have chosen to have his only son educated in Greek schools, but he chose French and English schools instead, possibly because of his bitterness towards the country that rejected him. The Hugo Vickers biography of Princess Alice, mother of Philip, was a lot more extensive, but this filled in the gaps of her letters where she expressed a desire to see her son become King of the Hellenes when Andrew's brothers and nephews failed to provide a male heir. If not for the birth of ex-king Constantine II, we may have had King Philipos of the Hellenes.