Jack Knox: Island's first glimpse of Queen was most poignant
She made the first of her seven visits to Vancouver Island in 1951, the only time she came here as princess, not queen.
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Jack Knox: Prince Philip: Over the Malahat and into 70 years in the spotlight
Philip had a niece who married a Port Alberni guy in 1979 and, according to the Vancouver Sun, settled into an ordinary job and quiet life in the Lower Mainland, where she was determined to downplay her royal connection. His nephew Maximilian, Margrave of Baden, Duke of Zähringen, once owned a private island, complete with eight-bedroom lodge, at the north end of the Strait of Georgia. Philip and the Queen popped up there during the 1994 Commonwealth Games. It was during the 1994 Victoria stay that Lt.-Gov. David Lam joked about a 1989 incident in which Philip, travelling solo, accidental...
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