Prince Philip’s unique service carries echoes of Greece, Tsarist Russia and the funeral of Diana Duke of Edinburgh’s life celebrated with familiar rites but prayers evoke Orthodox and Catholic faiths and his murdered royal relatives The Duke of Edinburgh's coffin is carried into St George's chapel It was a funeral celebrated according to the rites of the Church of England – but it was also so much more than that. Yesterday’s service for Prince Philip included, amid words familiar from the Book of Common Prayer, nods to the Roman Catholic Church and especially to the Orthodox tradition...