Prince Philip was the Queen s ever loyal husband, always following two steps behind the-sun.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from the-sun.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Updated: Apr 10 2021, 6:39 ET
PHILIPPOS Andreou of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg – or Prince Philip for short – could so easily have become a drug-addled Eurotrash wastrel.
We see it all the time in magazines like Hello! stupid people with stupid names and stupid titles sitting on their stupid boats surrounded by a bunch of stupid girls and some rolled-up bank notes. Read our live blog for the very latest news on
Prince Philip s death.
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Prince Philip s last individual public engagement with Royal Marines in August 2017Credit: Getty
T’was ever thus. There was some Eurotrash guy in the Sixties who remembered, at two in the morning, during a coke-fuelled poker game in Paris that he was due to play in a tennis tournament in Monaco the next day.
How Prince Philip was a devoted dad, father figure to Diana and legend to grandkids the-sun.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from the-sun.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Queen pictured as never before messing around in pool, eating and riding with dictator Mirror 4 hrs ago Kyle O Sullivan
The Queen may be the most famous woman in the world but she still remains an enigma.
However, never-before-seen candid footage of Her Majesty lifts the mask royalty brings to show who she really is as a wife, mother, animal lover, cook, farmer and comedian in new ITV documentary The Queen Unseen.
Usually a very private woman, the unseen home movies and recently digitised ‘lost’ material from some of the 116 countries she has visited uncover the real Elizabeth Windsor in rare off-duty moments.
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It is understood that the pair had hoped to keep their formal rolesCredit: Getty Images - Getty
Buckingham Palace confirmed the couple will no longer hold their formal positions with a range of military, arts, Commonwealth and sporting organisations.
But the decision is said to have come as a bitter blow to Harry and Meghan who, despite wanting to remain in the US for personal and financial freedom, believed they could still represent the public-facing bodies.
A royal source told the PA news agency they had absolutely, no question they wanted to retain the positions they had lost. They do respect the decision but they always made clear they were committed to doing the roles, the source added.