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Prince philip will be laid to rest today at st. georges chapel of a intimate gathering

First met, i believe? >> she was 13. >> 13. >> he was 18. >> okay. im sorry. its extraordinary that they met so early. >> and she fell in love with him right away. she had seen him at various royal gatherings because they were all related. she and prince philip were third cousins, they shared the same great, great grandparents, queen victoria and prince albert. philips mother was born in windsor castle. i remember when he first came along and one of the stuffy said, sir, would you like a little ...

According to the dukes wishes and according to the pandemic. by any standards, its still grand. look what youve been showing to the world the last half an hour or so. it is an amazing sight and what britain does so well, better than any other nation, frankly, in this kind of royal pomp and pageantry. i think more importantly they will pay the last post when his coffin is finally lowered. when it is lowered the naval plan will play action stations and the naval battle hymn and that is what is goi...

End cyber attacks. from endpoints to everywhere. castle as we await the funeral for prince philip. lets just listen in. ♪ >> representing the military associations of the duke

Edin edinburgh. he died suddenly and they had not known he was in stage four of lung cancer. he had to break that news to the queen. he comes back. a few years later, he kneels in fronts of her in this televised coronation. it was an amazing sight. he takes off his own coronet and i will be your life of limb and early worship. just to say he spent his whole life in service to this woman, to this sovereign and to this monarchy. the poet lasaid he is a husbandf duty. i think sums up him and his ge...

Primarily as the consort to the queen. he had no choice. there was no option. he was an alpha male in the truest sense of the word, a very, very -- as you heard, a very big personality, a very strong guy, very athletic, very strong willed, and went his own way throughout his life as much as he could. but primarily, he worked to a sense of duty, and that duty required him to be two steps or one step behind the queen in public, and thats what he had to adapt to. we talk sometimes about indelicate ...

Day for the queen, apart from everything else. this is a time for her to mourn a husband who, as we have heard, she was married to for 73 years. she was only 21 years old when they got married and he has been at her side, public and private, a shoulder to cry on ever since. im pretty sure she may not be regretting this is not the big occasion that it was supposed to be were it note for the pandemic. as you have said, 800 people were going to be invited to this funeral. now there is just 30 weari...

So many happy events for the royal family. not just prince harry and meghan markles wedding, but also the wedding of prince edward and sophie rees jones, who is of we. it is also a place where many royal family members lie in -- it is where they are buried. you go all the way back to henry viii buried here. george iii is buried here. george vi, queen elizabeths father, her mother, the queen mum, is buried here. princess margaret is buried here. it is that gentleman that position, if you will, of...

And his whole family and this and many other countries owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim or that we shall ever know. you know, when we watch the queen, she is so formal and, by all accounts, she is even pretty formal with her children and her grandchildren. the one person, it seems, that she was able to let her guard down with, the one person who would put his arm around her was prince philip, was her husband. he had nicknames for her. daisy, talk about the loss, losing the person ...