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Lieutenant-Commander John Michael Avison Parker, CVO, AM (23 June 1920 – 29 December 2001) was an Australian who served as an officer of the Royal Navy (RN) during World War II, and was Private Secretary to Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, from 1947 to 1957.
Nov 3, 2022 · Prince Philip with Private Secretary Lieutenant Commander Michael Parker in Gibraltar, after resigning on February 6, 1957. A divorce was still a major scandal in 1957 and one so close to the...
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Dec 13, 2017 · In fact, Philip's private secretary and friend Michael Parker (Daniel Ings) brags in a letter to their friends in the all-boys Thursday Club that it's like a "five-month stag do—whores in...
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Yes, and yes. As Prince Philip's Private Secretary, Mike Parker (played in The Crown by Daniel Ings) set off on a five-month world tour in 1956. He left behind his wife Eileen (Chloe Pirrie), whom he had married after a wartime romance. They had two young children. The marriage does not appear to have been a happy one, although Parker seems to have...
An Australian by birth, Parker had moved to England to join the Royal Navy. He and Philip first crossed paths on the destroyer Wallace in 1942, where they both served as First Lieutenant and were fierce competitors. However, these two young men – just a year apart in age – also became firm friends, and particularly enjoyed the delights of shore lea...
Eileen divorced her husband on grounds of adultery in 1958, but the public coverage of their marriage breakdown had already affected Parker's position in the royal household. Parker and Prince Philip were both members of the Thursday Club, an elite dining club which met for lunch each Thursday in a private room upstairs at Wheeler's restaurant in O...
As The Crown season one depicted, the relationship between Group Captain Townsend and Princess Margaret had proven that "divorce" was still a dirty word for the royal family. When Parker arrived back in London, the Queen's press secretary reportedly drove to the airport and greeted him with the words: "Hello, Parker. I've just come to let you know ...
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Michael Parker was a Lieutenant Commander in the United Kingdom's Royal Navy. He served as a Royal Navy officer during World War 2. He was a private secretary to to Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, from 1947 to 1957.
- 175' (53.85 m)
- Navy Officer , Courtier
- Australian , British
- Melbourne, Australia
Dec 9, 2017 · They had learned that Eileen Parker, 34, plans to divorce her estranged husband Lt. Comdr. Michael Parker, 36, who was forced to resign last month as the Duke of Edinburgh’s private secretary.
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Jan 21, 2018 · Michael Parker (played on the show by Daniel Ings) was private secretary to Prince Philip. In season 2 of the beloved Netflix series, the pair spend five months travelling to Melbourne for the 1956 Olympics – and partying all the way. Daniel Ings and Matt Smith in The Crown. Image: Netflix.
