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Prince Philip defined by patriotism was shaken when his beloved grandson Harry rejected everything he held dear
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Updated: Apr 16 2021, 15:00 ET
HE chose England.
So it is an irony befitting Shakespeare that the funeral of the Greek-born prince, who became the Duke of Edinburgh and the Queen’s strength and stay, should decide the fate of his grandson; the young man who so publicly abjured the country beloved to his heart, along with its mores and its heritage.
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During the last year of the Duke’s life, he would refer to the Sussexes’ departure with bewildermentCredit: Rex
For it will be beside the coffin of Prince Philip that the Duke of Sussex, who returns to these islands as a foreigner, will take or reject the hand of reconciliation.
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IS HUGE, red hands were what you noticed first. On his wrist the plain watch with its brown leather strap, and the copper bracelet he wore to ease the rheumatism that so plagued his later years. Moulded by his genes and by life, those hands, big as lion paws, in turn moulded those around him: his wife, their children, her subjects.
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Had Philip been the soft-skinned English aristocrat that the king and queen would have preferred for their elder daughter, Elizabeth, it would have been different. But he was an outsider. By the age of 26, when he married his second cousin once removed, he had lost virtually all his early roots. His father was dead; his mother, having suffered a mental breakdown, had withdrawn into a religious order. She wore a grey habit to the end of her life. Three of his four sisters married Nazis; none was welcome at the royal wedding in Westminster Abbey just after the end of the war.
Philip s regard for German cousins who were kept out of public eye for years
German relatives helped shape Duke s life but were judged too controversial for postwar British public
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Prince Philip and the Queen on their final visit to Germany in 2015
Credit: Ian Jones Retained/IJO
For decades Prince Philip had to keep his relationship with his German relatives out of the public eye, but in his final years he was able to be seen in public with his cousins, with whom he had privately always been close.
When he and the Queen came to Germany for the last time together six years ago, they were entertained at a formal dinner with his cousins in Frankfurt. Donatus, Landgrave of Hesse and a distant cousin, breezily told the British press, “Usually I see them in England at Windsor, so it’s lovely to see them over here.”
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The death of Prince Philip, coming at a time of turmoil in Britains royal family, offers a moment to reflect on the meaning of monarchy. And, for that matter, on the events spanned by his astounding life including not only the 74 years in which he was the husband of Elizabeth II but also his familys entanglements with Germany and his own rise to side with the Allies, for whom he appeared in arms in World War II.
Philips death was announced this morning by Buckingham Palace. In 1921, hed been born in Greece and into the royal families of both Greece and Denmark. In the turmoil of the Greco-Turkish war, his family with infant Philip was banished from Greece. He eventually ended up at an elite school in Germany, Schule Schloss Salem, where, in Philips own account, he first glimpsed the antisemitic frenzy gripping Germany.