Prince Philip would have turned 100 today (the queen’s private memory)

Prince Philip would have accomplished 100 years June 10, 2021. Buckingham Palace, which always carries on with the master of ceremonies, last year – on the occasion of the 99th birthday of Her Majesty’s beloved husband – had announced sober celebrations for a few close friends, as desired by the royal couple. But Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, passed away two months earlier, on April 9, 2021. True to a sentence pronounced in 2000 when the queen mother had reached her century of life: “I can’t imagine anything worse than living up to a hundred years”, Filippo had said then, “I’m already falling apart now.”

Ironic, pungent and cynical, right up to the end.

Therefore, June 10, 2021 remains a very important date for Queen Elizabeth. According to royal experts, His Majesty, 95, it will pay homage to the love of a private life. With a function in Windsor Chapel, the same place where Prince Philip’s funeral was held. Every year, moreover, Elizabeth II takes part in a private function on February 6, the day of the death of her father, King George VI.

“At the moment, the queen must suffer deeply for Prince PhilipExplained royal expert Ian Lloyd al Mirror, “But his attitude is to move forward, to think about the future of both the monarchy and his family.” Family that has just expanded with the arrival of the eleventh great-granddaughter, the little girl of Harry and Meghan, called Lilibet (Diana) in her honor. A choice that, for days, has held court from America to the United Kingdom, between those who claim that the queen liked the choice and those who consider it an “indelicate” behavior. Lilibet, affectionate nickname of the sovereign since childhood, we remember, was the name with which she wanted to sign the last note for her husband Filippo, married in 1947. «In loving memory», Three words and the unequivocal signature.

According to royal correspondent Charles Rae “family members, in particular Carlo, Camilla, William and Kate, they will be in contact with the queen on Philip’s birthday, they will make their presence felt ». The most difficult challenge for Elizabeth II in these two months was precisely that of move on without him. Fifteen days of national mourning, and then His Majesty returned to royal duties as soon as possible, as Philip would have liked, as he has always done in almost 70 years of reign.

“It was, quite simply, my strength and has remained with me for all these years, and I, his whole family, and many countries, owe him a greater debt than he would ever have claimed “, these were the words of the queen, pronounced on the occasion of the golden wedding and shared immediately after her death of her husband.

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