Prince Philip: How will the Queen cope without the man she has adored since she was a little girl?
Advertisement She has, of course, been preparing herself for some time for the day Philip would no longer be there, but that doesn’t make it any easier. To her, they have spent an entire lifetime together. Lilibet was, after all, only 13 when she first properly met him, and from that very moment, in the words of her oldest and closest friend Mrs Margaret Rhodes, she was ‘a one-man woman’. So today, one can only try to imagine the depth of loneliness of the Queen without the man she married in 1947 and who, as she lovingly declared on their golden wedding anniversary, ‘has been my stre...
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