FAREWELLING A PRINCE
Apr 22, 2021
5 minutes
By Karleigh Smith
“There was only one job to do that day”
—SOURCE
As the sun beamed down on a gleaming Windsor Castle last weekend ahead of Prince Philip’s funeral, palace insiders’ hearts were in their mouths. Behind the glorious early spring day, a moment of reckoning had arrived for the royal family, which was dogged by vicious squabbling over military uniforms in the lead up to the sombre occasion, along with the looming dark cloud of Prince Harry and Prince William’s infamous falling out.
But in the final seconds before the Duke of Edinburgh’s body, on board a Land Rover he personally customised to carry his casket, began its final journey to a resting place in St George’s Chapel, the House of Mountbatten-Windsor’s war of words came to a
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