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A lot of things have been conveniently forgotten over the years about Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, who died aged 99 on April 9. The fancy uniforms, the spoken gaffes, and the occasionally dodgy views are all etched in concrete and easily trundled out. What’s less remembered are 70 years of service to the crown, a lifelong and tireless devotion to charities, and a progressive devotion to the advancement of science and new ideas. Long before his son, Philip spoke about what he regarded as a new menace, “a hotly-debated issue directly attributable to the development of industry.the build-up of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. But before he became number two to the most famous woman in the world, the Prince had a blooming career in the Navy, most of it at war.
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