The second Saturday in June at 11 o’clock Queen Elizabeth took part in the traditional Trooping The Color. The celebration established by Edward VII in 1901, which also marks the official birthday of the British monarchs, for the second time it took place in restricted form to Windsor Castle. The «mini Trooping the Color »2021, as it was renamed in Great Britain, was certainly the saddest ever for the ninety-five-year-old sovereign: the first without Prince Philip, who died last April at the age of 99. The duke had not attended the event for years. But his absence this year tastes much more bitter.
Nevertheless, the sovereign, dressed in blue, showed herself smiling. Sitting next to her, like to give her strength, this time there was his cousin, the Duke of Kent, older brother of Alexandra and Michael of Kent. Prince Edward in Kent had also accompanied Her Majesty to Trooping The Color in June 2013. That time Filippo couldn’t be there because he was recovering from a surgical intervention. Then, since the duke himself was retired to private life, the queen had never felt the need for a “substitute-knight”. But now that her husband is dead the Royal House, for don’t make her feel alone, wanted to join her cousin, who is also a dear friend of hers.
Edward George Nicholas Paul Patrick, born in 1935, today 39th in the line of succession to the throne, Duke of Kent since he was six years old (he inherited the title on the death of his father Jorge), since 1961 he is married to Katherine Worsley, once nicknamed the “recluse princess” due to her low profile. The two, they have three children – George, Earl of St. Andrews, Lady Helen Taylor and Lord Nicholas Windsor – as well as many royalty (including i Cambridge) they live in Kensington Palace. To be precise at Wren House, one of the few houses on the palace grounds.
The prince was once a tireless royal worker and for His Majesty he has completed hundreds of official commitments, even abroad. For example, he was the first member of the royal family to make an official trip to China in 1979 and it was he who promoted British exports to Europe, Japan, Australia and the Middle East. In the 1990s, however, he admitted that he suffered from depression and in 2002 he renounced the title of Royal Highness to do themusic teacher for children (his very young students, in 2016, also played for His Majesty). However, still today, at the age of 85, he is involved in the activities of 140 charities. The affection and respect of the queen Elizabeth towards that discreet cousin and always devoted to her are known to all. This is why it is not surprising that the sovereign, in the first Trooping The Color after the death of her beloved husband, wanted him by her side.
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