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.