Buckingham Palace turns pitch black in memory of Prince Philip
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Buckingham Palace turns pitch black in memory of Prince Philip
In memory of Prince Philip’s passing the official website for Buckingham Palace has turned black.
According to the notice, “The official website of the Royal Family is temporarily unavailable while appropriate changes are made.”
Underneath this notice is a letter announcing his demise and it reads “It is with deep sorrow that Her Majesty The Queen announces the death of her beloved husband, His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.”
His Royal Highness passed away peacefully this morning at Windsor Castle. Further announcements will made in due course. The Royal Family join with people around the world in mourning his loss. Friday, 9 April 2021”
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Celebrities and world leaders are paying tribute to
Prince Philip after his death on Friday (April 9).
Buckingham Palace confirmed that
“It is with deep sorrow that Her Majesty The Queen has announced the death of her beloved husband, His Royal Highness The
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. His Royal Highness passed away peacefully this morning at Windsor Castle,” the palace said in a statement.
Prime Minister
Boris Johnson addressed the nation from Number 10 Downing Street.
“It is to Her Majesty, and her family, that our nation’s thoughts must turn today,” he said. “Because they have lost not just a much-loved and highly respected public figure, but a devoted husband and a proud and loving father, grandfather and, in recent years, great-grandfather.”
A DENBIGHSHIRE businessman has re-called the time he had the chance to drink tea and share a joke or two with the Duke of Edinburgh - who had made him ‘feel at ease from the first moment’. On Friday, April 4, Buckingham Palace announced that the Duke, His Royal Highness (HRH) Prince Philip, had died aged 99 - just two months before his 100th birthday on June 10. Back in 2008, Mark Williams, who runs the LIMB-art business based at Nant-y-Lladron in Denbigh, was working for Ecolab. A milking equipment cleaning programme claimed to bring savings of £1000 a year in energy saw the company win the RABDF Prince Philip Award, presented at Buckingham Palace.
The Duke of Edinburgh’s public image portrayed by certain parts of the media was “always an unfair depiction”, his youngest son the Earl of Wessex has said.
Prince Edward told ITV News his father had a “wonderful” sense of humour, but people could misinterpret things or “turn it against them”.
The Earl of Wessex (Chris Jackson/PA)
Edward said: “The public image that certain parts of the media would portray was always an unfair depiction.
“He used to give them as good as he got and always in a very entertaining way.
“He was brilliant. Always absolutely brilliant.
It is with deep sorrow that Her Majesty The Queen has announced the death of her beloved husband, His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.