THE QUEEN AND PRINCE PHILIP
Throughout their 73-year marriage he was her dashing, dependable rock, her stalwart “strength and stay” who remained steadfast to the end. Last week, in honour of their enduring love, the Queen paid a touching tribute to her late husband the Duke of Edinburgh as she decreed that the Duchess of Cornwall should become Queen Consort upon the Prince of Wales’s accession – a role that would provide the same support as he had given her.
“I was blessed that in Prince Philip I had a partner willing to carry out the role of consort and unselfishly make the sacrifices that go with it,” she said in
