Philip’s Carriage Driving Eccentricity
Season 5 portrays Philip’s carriage driving as a sudden midlife hobby showing his eccentricity. The truth is more straightforward. Philip took up competitive carriage driving in the 1970s after playing polo became too physically demanding. It wasn’t an odd quirk but a serious sport he pursued for decades, writing books about it and competing internationally. The show mischaracterizes a genuine passion as a peculiar distraction.
