Man belong Mrs Queen : adventures with the Philip worshippers / Matthew Baylis.

Brecon : Old Street, 2013.©2013

Baylis, Matthew. author.

01-01-2013

276 pages ; 20 cm.

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Great Britain

Religious cults

Royal Family

Social customs

Vanuatu

Autobiography

Description and travel

History

Overseas item

Cults -- Vanuatu.

Vanuatu -- Description and travel.

Vanuatu -- Social life and customs.

Philip, Prince, consort of Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1921-2021 -- Cult.

Baylis, Matthew

9781908699640

As a bookish child growing up on Merseyside in the 1980s, Matthew Baylis identified with the much-mocked Prince Philip as a fellow outsider. He even had a poster of him on his bedroom wall. Years later, his Philip-worship long behind him, and now studying anthropology, Baylis discovered the existence of a Philip cult on the South Sea island of Tanna. Why was it there? Nobody had a convincing answer. Nobody even seemed to want to find one. His curiosity fatally piqued, Baylis travelled over 10,000 miles to find a society both remote and slap-bang in the shipping-lanes of history. A place where US airmen, Lithuanian libertarians, Corsican paratroopers and Graeco-Danish Princes have had as much impact as the missionaries and the slave-traders. On the rumbling slopes of this remarkable volcanic island, banjaxed by daily doses of the local narcotic, suffering from a diet of yams and regularly accused of being a divine emissary of the Duke, Baylis uncovered a religion unlike any other on the planet. Self-deprecating, hilarious and enlightening, "Man Belong Mrs Queen" is travel writing at its horizon-expanding best. AUTHOR: Born in Nottingham in 1971, Matthew Baylis is a novelist, journalist and scriptwriter. His latest novel, "A Death at the Palace", was published by Old Street in March this year, to terrific reviews.

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