New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

PRINCE PHILIP LIFE, LOVE & DUTY

We look back at the extraordinary life of the Queen’s devoted husband, who passed away two months before his 100th birthday.

Prince Philip often described himself as “the world’s most experienced plaque unveiler”. A master of the self-deprecating crack, he once told an aide, “I know my place – two paces behind the Queen.”

But he was massively underselling himself. Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, who died on April 9 aged 99, might have had to lag behind his wife for reasons of protocol, but out of the public eye, he was her rock, and a large part of

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