Duke of Edinburgh and husband to Queen Elizabeth II, has died at age 99.
Buckingham Palace confirmed the death of the prince, who was married to the Queen for more than 70 years, on Friday afternoon local time. “It is with deep sorrow that Her Majesty The Queen announces the death of her beloved husband, His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
The Duke of Edinburgh is expected to have a royal ceremonial funeral in a socially distanced service in St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle. He will not lie in state and there will be no state funeral because he had insisted that he did not want the 'fuss'. His ceremonial royal funeral will be televised and broadcast to the country with crowds anywhere to be discouraged.
The statement has been placed on the gates of Buckingham Palace in London. Meanwhile, the royal family’s official website, Royal.uk, is currently a memorial page for the prince and “temporarily unavailable while appropriate changes are made.” Prince Philip’s death, just two months ahead of his 100th birthday, comes a day after he featured prominently in ITV documentary “The Unseen Queen” — featuring rarely seen archive of the royal couple and their children in their early years — which aired on Thursday night and drew 2.4 million.
Prince Philip was in ill health before his death, having been admitted to hospital in February and later undergoing a procedure for a pre-existing heart condition. He left the hospital and returned to Windsor Castle in March. The prince’s last public appearance was in July 2020 when he transferred his ceremonial role as colonel-in-chief of The Rifles to his daughter-in-law Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall.
In December 2019, the prince spent four days in the hospital for observation and to treat an unspecified pre-existing condition.
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