Prince Philip, the husband Queen Elizabeth II for more than seven decades, passed away this Friday two months after his 100th birthday. He was recently discharged from hospital after a successful heart operation, he reported Buckingham Palace.
“With deep pain, Her Majesty the Queen announces the death of her beloved husband, His Royal Highness the Prince Felipe, leads to Edinburgh“said a statement from Buckingham Palace.
“His Royal Highness died peacefully this morning into the Windsor Castlehe said.
With deep sorrow, Her Majesty the Queen announced the death of her beloved husband, Her Royal Highness, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
His Royal Highness died peacefully this morning at Windsor Castle. pic.twitter.com/XOIDQqlFPn
– Royal Family (@RoyalFamily) April 9, 2021
After learning of his death, the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, praised “extraordinary life and work” of the prince and sent a message of condolence to the queen.
British flags they were already flying half mast this Friday at noon, after announcing the death of the Duke of Edinburgh.
Felipe, what the on June 10, he was supposed to be 100 years old, was last seen on March 16 when, dressed in a white shirt and a cream sweater, he landed in the back seat of a King Edward VII Hospital from London, where he had been hospitalized a month earlier.
From there he returned to Windsor Castle, about 50 km west of Londonwhere he and the 94-year-old queen have been closed since the beginning of the pandemic from coronavirus more than a year ago.
It’s been years since they’ve spent so much time together, since they spent much of the year at the royal residence in Sandringham and the queen of the palace of Buckingham o de Windsor.
He was hospitalized for an infection
After being hospitalized on February 16, as a “precautionary measure” after feeling unwell, and in the face of speculation and concern about his advanced age, the royal house reported that Your income has not been linked to covid-19It was due to an infection.
Under strong media expectation, he had been transferred in early March from small and elegant King Edward VII, at the great public hospital St. Bartholomew.
Where, according to its website, the largest department specializing in cardiovascular disease in Europe, underwent “successful” surgery “To treat pre-existing heart disease.”
The British royal family in crisis
His passing represents a new failure for the British royal family at a turbulent time for the monarchy, shaken by one of its biggest institutional crises following an explosive interview with the prince Enrique and his wife Meghan in March to the star of American television Oprah Winfrey.
In it, Enrique, 36, and Meghan, 38, explained the reasons for their resounding withdrawal from British royalty and his exile in California. And they said that a member of the royal family expressed “concern” about the color of the skin that their children will have, because her mother is black.
Shortly after Enrique specified that they hadn’t even been his grandmother, Queen, nor his grandfather, Felipe, known for his bland blunders and jokes, as well as for his strong temperament and bluntness.
The health of Prince Philip
The Duke of Edinburgh officially left its activities in August 2017 after participating in more than 22,000 acts related to his position in 1952, when his wife took the throne.
He sporadically accompanies the queen in public appearances, though in June 2017 he was hospitalized for two nights due to an infection “related to an existing pathology” and a year later he underwent hip surgery.
While in 2019 he had an accident when he crashed his Land Rover against another vehicle leaving the royal property of Sandringhambut the prince Felipe he was unharmed and at the end of the year he was hospitalized for “pre-existing health problems”.