Monday 12 April 2021
The Queen and Prince Philip on board the Royal Yacht Britannia during an official visit to Kuwait, 1979
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Tributes have been pouring in following the death of Prince Philip, the Queen’s husband, who passed away on Friday 9 April aged 99. One idea being touted as a memorial to the late Duke of Edinburgh is to establish a new Royal Yacht Britannia, after the last royal vessel was decommissioned in 1997.
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Sunday Telegraph reports that Prime Minister Boris Johnson is facing calls from MPs, Cabinet ministers and even a former Britannia captain to support the construction of a new yacht, to be named HMY The Duke of Edinburgh.
Boris Johnson urged to back new Royal Yacht Britannia as memorial to Prince Philip
MPs, Cabinet ministers and former Britannia captain back calls for successor to be named HMY The Duke of Edinburgh
10 April 2021 • 9:00pm
Boris Johnson is under pressure to sanction the construction of a £190 million successor to HMY Royal Yacht Britannia as a lasting memorial to the Duke of Edinburgh.
MPs, Cabinet ministers, businessmen and a former captain of Britannia are backing calls for the successor to be named HMY The Duke of Edinburgh as a sister vessel to aircraft carriers Queen Elizabeth and Prince of Wales.
One Cabinet minister said the yacht could form a major of the Prime Minister s ambitious ship-building programme, set out last autumn.
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