The queen Elisabetta he confided to his children that he felt “an enormous void” after the death of his wife, the Prince Philip. This is what he reported Prince Andrew, third child of the couple. The Duke of York revealed his mother’s feelings after attending Sunday mass at Windsor Chapel with other members of the royal family.
It will be Saturday 17 the day of the last farewell to Prince Philip. Among those present, with Elizabeth and the four children in the lead, there will be space for the beloved nephew-rebel Harry, coming from Californian self-exile, but not for his wife Meghan, officially stopped by the veto of doctors for the advanced state of pregnancy and the previous miscarriage of a year ago.
The last days of Prince Philip: “I want to die at home”
by our correspondent Antonello Guerrera
The program was formalized today by the court, after the approval of the queen and the green light of the government of Boris Johnson, against the backdrop of a day of national mourning – the second of eight, according to custom – in which the most evocative tribute came from the armed forces, with the 41 customary cannon volleys fired from the Tower of London and from bases and units soldiers scattered between the island and the overseas territories in memory of the prince-veteran of the war.
Philip’s coffin will be transported on a Land Rover modified ad hoc to the design of the deceased and followed for the short journey between the castle and the adjacent chapel of St George by a small procession led by Prince Charles, his eldest son and heir to the throne of the Queen Elizabeth. The latter will wait in the church instead. There will be a minute of national silence, observed throughout the Kingdom at the same time as the beginning of the rite, but no mortuary, expressly rejected by the duke, whose coffin will be covered only by his personal banner, a wreath of flowers and his cap and sword as a veteran officer of the Royal Navy, the British Navy: in the name of the reference to that “no fuss” (no fuss) of which Prince Philip had made a mark of life. An absence of clamor that the restrictions of the pandemic contribute to seal. Forcing the Royal Family – while determined in this “moment of sadness” to extol the prince’s “vast contribution” to the nation and “his lasting legacy” to the monarchy and the nation – to invite their subjects to stay home. Since the funeral will take place “on a small scale” and without “public access”.
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In the chapel, where the liturgy will be officiated by the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and by the rector of Windsor, the current guidelines on Covid cautions will allow only about thirty people to enter: close family members and the most faithful private secretary of the duke, Archie Miller Bakewell. While other admitted guests will attend from outside.
in the meantime Welby, the foremost spiritual authority of the Anglican Church, paid homage to the late Duke of Edinburgh’s “virtuous restlessness” and “gift of moral imagination”. “He had a virtuous restlessness”, said Welby remembering him last night, “he did not accept the status quo, if things weren’t right he said it and said it quickly, clearly and often without mincing words”. “Prince Philip”, added the archbishop, “had a deep and genuine sense of service and humility”.
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