Queen Elizabeth shared the sad news that her beloved husband of 73 years,
Prince Philip, had passed away. He was 99-years-old. Though the Duke of Edinburgh had been retired from his royal duties for four years before his passing, he undertook 22,219 solo engagements, gave 5,496 speeches, and wrote 14 books making him one of the busiest members of the Royal Family in history. In addition to his royal duties, Prince Philip served with the British forces in WWII, learned how to fly numerous aircrafts throughout his life and was known for his sense of humor. Here are some facts you may not have known about the late royal.
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Poor darlings, they have never had any fun yet,’ King George VI wrote in his diary shortly after the end of the war in 1945.
By ‘fun’, the King meant the kind of social life he had enjoyed in the 1920s, the non-stop dancing at lavish private balls or to hear Ambrose and his Orchestra at the Embassy Club in Mayfair.
Things had been very different for his daughters, the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret, who spent their teenage years in more sombre circumstances, serving the Royal Family and the nation as Britain fought the threat of German occupation.
Perhaps for Elizabeth, this was no great hardship. Unlike her mother, who was the life and soul of parties, and in contrast to her sparkling younger sister, she did not enjoy big social gatherings.
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