THE death of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, will have saddened many people across Scotland, a country he knew well and dearly loved.
In many ways it was Scotland that formed him. Following a disrupted childhood he was educated at Schule Schloss Salem in Germany from 1933, but after only two terms he moved to Scotland, following the Schule’s Jewish founder Kurt Hahn, who had fled Nazi Germany and founded Gordonstoun School – its original name was the British Salem School of Gordonstoun – near Duffus in Moray.
Philip arrived at Gordonstoun School in 1934, and Hahn became a lifelong mentor. The School in those days prized physical and sporting attributes as well as intellectual achievements – Hahn believed in a rounded education for teenagers, and himself taught history and ancient Greek. He also encouraged his pupils in drama – the Duke once starred in a school production of The Scottish Play, as actors call Macbeth.