BOWING OUT OF PUBLIC LIFE
‘He has given a lifetime of service to this country’ Gyles Brandreth
Tipping his bowler hat, the Duke of Edinburgh bowed out of public life on a wet early August day in 2017, much as he had begun almost 70 years previously: fulfilling his duty.
His farewell solo engagement saw him inspect a Royal Marine guard of honour in a last job as Captain General. And while not the last time we would see him in public, it was a fitting finale for the former naval officer, who had carried out a staggering 22,219 solo engagements since
