Shannon Donnelly
Palm Beach Daily News
HRH Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh, longest-serving Royal Consort in the history of the monarchy, died peacefully on Friday at Windsor Castle, two months shy of his 100th birthday.
He has been husband to HM Queen Elizabeth II for 72 years, and all that time, as royal protocol dictates, walked a few steps behind the queen.
But when he came to Palm Beach, solo or with one of his sons, he was front and center. He walked in behind nobody.
Prince Philip was no stranger to this royalty obsessed island, and especially not to island philanthropic circles. Like less blue-blooded fundraisers, the prince knew that Palm Beach is ripe with charity bucks.
Obituary: John J. Burns Jr., 85, corporate leader, longtime resident
New Canaan Advertiser
FacebookTwitterEmail
John J. Burns Jr., 85, of New Canaan, passed away suddenly on March 10, 2017, in Naples, Fla.
Mr. Burns was born on June 27, 1931 in Cambridge, Mass., the eldest son of John Joseph Burns, the son of Irish immigrants and a Massachusetts Superior Court judge, and Alice Blake Burns of Malden, Mass. Mr. Burns was a graduate of Boston College, where he played football, and went on to receive an MBA from Harvard Business School. He then served in the U.S. Navy for two years as storekeeper on the destroyer USS Purdy.