Today we bid farewell to a man who has been on the World's stage for, literally, my entire life: HRH Prince Philip, the Queen's Consort. ("Consort: a wife, husband, or companion, in particular the spouse of a reigning monarch." - Oxford Languages. I looked it up.)
It is not for me, an American who considers the British Monarchy a living, breathing anachronism, to comment on the life of the Prince. I highly recommend the obituary for the Prince that appears online today in the Washington Post. It's great reading, and you can read it HERE. It portrays the Prince pretty much as we here in the Colonies have come to see him portrayed in "The Crown": a real man's man who oft-times comes across as a foot-in-his-mouth twit.
As you read his obit, you will also come to see that he was someone who gave up the life that he really wanted, that of a career man in the Royal Navy, to become a man, a consort, who was destined to live in the shadow of his wife, Queen Elizabeth II, and in service to the Empire. Their marriage was certainly different than the marriages of ordinary folk like you and me, but I can only hope that they found a lifetime of happiness together.
RIP Prince Philip.
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