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Fashion doyenne and former SBS chair Carla Zampatti has been farewelled with a state funeral attended by a swathe of leading figures from Australia s fashion, arts, business, political, media and corporate circles.
Mourners gathered at Sydney s St Mary s Cathedral to honour the extraordinary life of the trailblazer whose stellar career and elegant designs won the admiration of the nation for nearly six decades.
The service was streamed live and members of the public were also invited to farewell the 78-year-old fashion icon who died last month after falling at a performance of La Traviata at Mrs Macquaries Point in Sydney.
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PRINCE PHILIP, DUKE of EDINBURGH: 10 June 1921 - 9 April, 2021
No member of the royal family has visited Australia as often as Prince Philip. Over 71 years, from his first visit to Sydney in 1940 to his last in 2011, he seemed to enjoy his encounters – with his throwaway lines and sharp asides – and Australians, for their part, seemed to appreciate that irreverent directness.
Prince Philip over the years.
His first visit was to Sydney in 1940, when he was a 19-year-old junior officer with HMS Ramillies. He proved a popular party guest. But he was never pretentious. When Sydney man-about-town, Marcel Dekyvere, was introduced by a friend to this young British sailor – “Meet Philip of Greece” he snapped back, “Yes, and I’m Louis of France.” In 1942, he returned, a golden-bearded sub-lieutenant with the destroyer HMS Wallace.