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Elizabeth is Left Alone Without Philip. What Now? Published April 18th, 2021 - 06:17 GMT
Britain s Queen Elizabeth II sits alone in the quire of St George s Chapel during the funeral service of her husband Britain s Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh in Windsor Castle in Windsor, west of London, on April 17, 2021. Philip, who was married to Queen Elizabeth II for 73 years, died on April 9 aged 99 just weeks after a month-long stay in hospital for treatment to a heart condition and an infection. Yui Mok / POOL / AFP
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But the grief we feel in relation to the death of those closest to us is permanent, and stays with us for the rest of our days. In that, the Queen is not alone.
Few moments in life are as profoundly lonely as the day after the funeral of a loved one.
And if the loss is of a lifelong companion – one s strength and stay , as the Queen so elegantly described her husband of 73 years, the Duke of Edinburgh – then it marks the point at which a life, irrevocably changed, must somehow carry on without them.
The important paperwork and admin that always accompanies a death is largely done. The well-wishers and consolers have paid their tributes and shared memories.
But when the door finally closes and Elizabeth is left alone without her Philip, the man who devoted his life to being by her side, what then?