HRH Prince Philip will be remembered through the Duke of Edinburgh awards
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The older I get, the more I enjoy reading obituaries in newspapers. Nothing maudlin, no indecent relish that it’s someone else’s number which has come up, not mine. It’s just that they make wonderful potted histories of fascinating lives and the times in which they were lived.
No recent passing has attracted so many newspaper inches as that of HRH Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, and it would appear that marrying the Queen and having four children with her was by no means the most interesting part of his life. For that, we need to look to the fact that from birth and well into his life he was a person without a state, stateless, a kind of refugee.