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MY first ever meeting with Prince Philip happened on a freezing New Year’s Day at the Queen’s Sandringham estate.
It was the late Seventies and I had been stood for hours in the cold when I spotted the Duke of Edinburgh thundering towards me driving a horse and carriage. Read our live blog for the very latest news on
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This picture shows the Queen arriving by carriage at Islamabad’s parliament in Pakistan. It was taken back in The Duke helping her descend from the landau by gently holding her arm was typical of his old-fashioned chivalry, as both an officer and a gentlemanCredit: The Sun
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PRINCE Philip was as well known for his cheeky one-liners as he was for being the Queen s husband.
The Duke of Edinburgh - who died on Friday morning, aged 99 - was respected for his deep wisdom and sharp wit in equal measure. Read our live blog for the very latest news on
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He has undertaken solo Royal duties and been the Queen s companion as she tours the UK and the globe - while making the public chuckle, cry with laughter and occasionally cringe at his off-the-cuff comments.
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Apr 9 2021, 16:44 ET
WHEN the young Lady Diana Spencer first came to Balmoral Castle as a guest of Prince Charles in the early Eighties, Prince Philip made a huge effort to welcome her.
He recognised she was insecure and far more naive than his son’s previous selection of sophisticated blondes.
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Prince Philip made a special effort to welcome Diana into the familyCredit: Rex Features
The Queen referred to Diana as “one of us” because her father, Lord Spencer, had been an equerry to King George V1.
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
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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.