He surfaced in May 2018, when he joined the sun-splashed pomp of the wedding of Harry and Meghan, waving to crowds lining the streets from the back seat of a limousine, the queen beside him, and striding up the steps of St. He kept at it until May 2017, when, at age 95, he announced his retirement from public life his final solo appearance came three months later.īut he did not entirely fade from public view. “We have got to make this monarchy thing work,” he was reported to have said. Now it was to help preserve the crown itself.Īnd yet he embraced his royal role as a job to be done. But as pageantry was upstaged by scandal, as regal weddings were followed by sensational divorces, his mission, as he saw it, changed. The couple, in self-imposed exile in California, lodged accusations of racism and cruelty against members of the royal family.Īs “the first gentleman in the land,” Philip tried to shepherd into the 20th century a monarchy encrusted with the trappings of the 19th. He died just as Buckingham Palace was again in turmoil, this time over Oprah Winfrey’s explosive televised interview last month with Philip’s grandson Prince Harry and Harry’s wife, Meghan. Go here for updates and reaction to Prince Philip’s death. Philip had been hospitalized several times in recent years for various ailments, most recently in February, the palace said.
His death was announced by Buckingham Palace, which said he passed away peacefully. Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, husband of Queen Elizabeth II, father of Prince Charles and patriarch of a turbulent royal family that he sought to ensure would not be Britain’s last, died on Friday at Windsor Castle in England.
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