BBCNEWS Breakfast April 10, 2021 08:05:00
It was in august 2017, on the forecourt of buckingham palace, that the duke carried out his final solo engagement, inspecting a parade by the royal marines. it was pouring with rain, yet the duke, who was then 96, was not to be deterred. duty came first that day, as it had for so many decades, so often alongside the queen, but also pursuing his own public programme to which he brought his own famously forthright style. but the public image of the duke walking a few paces behind his wife only tells part of the story. his greatest contribution was the unseen support he gave to the queen as she c...