33 years ago, a very disturbing thing happened to the British royal family: the rebellious Marina fell in love with a civilian boyfriend, and was pregnant before marriage, crying and clamoring to get married.
I'm afraid many people are not familiar with her, her identity is not ordinary, she is a noble but ill-fated member of the royal family. Her maternal grandparents were none other than the Duke and Duchess of Kent, the younger brother of George VI, and her mother, Princess Alexandra, was a true "blue-blooded nobleman".
As a descendant of Danish and Greek princesses, Alexandra's prestige even surpassed the famous Queen Elizabeth II to some extent.
As a child, Alexandra lived a relatively poor life. The early death of her father and the mother's preference for her son, who often had to wear the same dress to important occasions, and out of sympathy, Elizabeth II would give this cousin clothes that she no longer wore.
Although the intentions are good, for a noble princess, it is undoubtedly an act that hurts her self-esteem.
Alexandra's life took a subtle turn after meeting Prince Philip. Prince Philip was a Greek prince and the husband of Elizabeth II, but he was more closely related to Alexandra, whom Alexandra should have called her uncle. Later, the two quickly became entangled.
Many people are aware of the fact that the European royal family is a family, and they have a common "grandmother" Victoria. Elizabeth II and Prince Philip were cousins themselves, although not very close.
To put it bluntly, there is a sense of intimacy between these three people, who are not only inseparable in terms of external identity, but also close in blood.
Why did these two men come together? Or is it because royal life is so depressing?
Needless to say, Prince Philip is already romantic, and he is famous, and someone counted a list of lovers for him: 30 people. This team is absolutely spectacular in this day and age.
Another reason is that Prince Philip was at an impasse with Elizabeth II over the issue of the child's surname, and he refused to have any more offspring with the queen at one time, while Alexandra shouldered the responsibility of assisting the queen in royal affairs. In this context, the suave Philip and the beautiful Alexandra began an indecent love, although they were 15 years apart, they fell in love with each other at first sight.
The news quickly spread within the royal family. Elizabeth II chose to turn a blind eye in order to preserve the royal family's face, but she also did not completely let things develop. With the Queen's mediation, Alexandra married the right person and stayed away from the land of right and wrong for the time being.
However, this marriage did not stop Alexandra and Prince Philip's relationship, and they maintained this relationship secretly for the next 20 years.
As a daughter, Marina knows this, and when her mother forces her to give up her civilian boyfriend and beat off the flesh in her womb, Marina threatens to expose her mother's scandal.
In order to avoid a bigger scandal, Elizabeth II personally intervened to clean up the aftermath for Marina. With the help of the Queen, Marina eventually gets married and has children with her civilian boyfriend, while Alexandra has to endure the pain of her daughter's self-destruction of her future.
As it turned out, Marina's marriage was not a happy one, with class differences and clash ideas making their relationship untenable.
Eventually, Marina returned to her mother with her two children, a result that confirmed Alexandra's fears to some extent.
Time flies, time flies. Elizabeth II and Prince Philip have passed away one after another, and the affair of that year has also been lost in the dust of history.
In fact, under the glamorous appearance, the royal family also has their own troubles and pains. The shackles of identity and the suppression of feelings are all shackles that they can't easily get rid of. Alexandra and Prince Philip's unruly love is, to some extent, a rebellion and catharsis against this repression.
Today, Alexandra is in her 80s. She had been the Queen's closest and most trusted person, but now that she had finally "retired" from her long court career, the stories of her and Prince Philip were never told again.