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In typically insouciant fashion, Prince Philip often remarked to the Queen when discussing his funeral: ‘Just stick me in the back of a Land Rover and drive me to Windsor.’ Now it transpires that his wish will come true. Buckingham Palace yesterday announced that a ‘specially modified’ Land Rover, which the Duke himself helped design, … Read more
Looked at from the outside, the Duke of Edinburgh was a kind of living model of the British establishment – ever-present at all those State ceremonial occasions, Trooping the Colour, openings of Parliament. Lean, imperious, with an eagle’s stare and a hawk nose, dressed in the bearskin and scarlet of colonel of the Grenadier Guards, … Read more
It was a tale of three tributes. The first was rushed out at 12.19pm on Friday by the leader of the Labour Party. ‘Prince Philip dedicated his life to our country – from a distinguished career in the Royal Navy during the Second World War to his decades of service as the Duke of Edinburgh. … Read more
With a debonair doff of his bowler hat and a quick wave to the crowd, Prince Philip ended his 22,219th – and final – solo engagement. In typically stoic style he had braved torrential rain to congratulate some Royal Marines on taking on a gruelling charity challenge, and joked they should have been ‘locked up’ … Read more
From a 1948 boxing event to meeting the Marines in 2017: Prince Philip’s first royal engagement and his last… with 22,217 between them Prince Philip spent 65 years being the Queen’s consort since she acceded to the throne in 1952 He completed he final public engagement on August 2, 2017 at the age of 99 … Read more
It was a tale of three tributes. The first was rushed out at 12.19pm on Friday by the leader of the Labour Party. ‘Prince Philip dedicated his life to our country – from a distinguished career in the Royal Navy during the Second World War to his decades of service as the Duke of Edinburgh. … Read more
A few days after the death of King George VI in February 1952, Earl Jowitt, the Lord Chancellor under Clement Attlee, addressed the House of Lords in a message of condolence to the new Queen Elizabeth II. ‘It is, I fear, inevitable that the life of the Sovereign must be in some sense a lonely … Read more
A few days after the death of King George VI in February 1952, Earl Jowitt, the Lord Chancellor under Clement Attlee, addressed the House of Lords in a message of condolence to the new Queen Elizabeth II. ‘It is, I fear, inevitable that the life of the Sovereign must be in some sense a lonely … Read more
As people across the world grieved for Prince Philip yesterday, social media trolls – including a one-time Guardian journalist – instead took the opportunity to spread vile messages of spite. In response to the official Palace announcement that the Duke had ‘passed away peacefully’, writer Karen Geier, who proudly boasts of her work for the … Read more
Princes William and Harry will reunite as they walk behind their grandfather’s coffin at his funeral next Saturday. The brothers could stand shoulder to shoulder as they form part of the royal procession at the service for the Duke of Edinburgh next Saturday. It will be the first time the pair will be seen together … Read more