Prince Philip 'wasn’t looking forward' to centenary 'fuss', says youngest son
On what would have been Prince Philip's 100th birthday, his youngest kid said he would not take been looking frontward to any celebrations to mark the occasion.
In an interview with the BBC that was broadcast on Th (Jun 10), the 57-year-erstwhile Prince Edward said the purple family would have "loved" the risk for Philip to be able to feel his centenary, even if his tardily father would have balked at "all the fuss and bother."
"I remember he wasn't actually looking forward to the centenary, even if nosotros were," Edward said.
"Everybody will have their own memories," Edward said. "He was that sort of larger-than-life person. Once met, never forgotten."
Philip died on Apr 9, 2021, just 2 months short of his 100th birthday. His funeral a niggling more than a week later was a low-primal thing at Windsor Castle with attendees in St George'south Chapel limited to just 30 people as a issue of the coronavirus restrictions at the time. About poignantly, Queen Elizabeth 2, Philip'due south married woman of 73 years, saturday solitary on one side of the chapel.
Reflecting on his father's funeral amid the pandemic, Edward said it was an "boggling" but "foreign" day.
READ: Queen Elizabeth marks belatedly husband'south 100th birthday with new rose
The queen, 95, has already marked the occasion with the planting of a newly bred rose named after her late husband. The Duke of Edinburgh Rose has been planted in the Windsor Castle gardens.
Philip, who was born on the Greek isle of Corfu on Jun 10, 1921, married then-Princess Elizabeth in 1947 – five years before she became queen. The queen has described her hubby, who became Britain's longest-serving consort, as her "force and stay".
Prince Charles, 72, besides honoured his belatedly father on Th with a social media mail on the Instagram account he shares with his married woman Camilla. It showed a young Charles property his male parent'southward hand as Philip, wearing a dapper double-breasted suit and sunglasses, greeted him after returning home from a trip to Malta in 1951.
"Remembering The Duke of Edinburgh, on what would have been his 100th birthday," the post said.
(Source: AP)
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