His Royal Highness Prince Philip’s 99th Birthday.

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and His Royal Highness Prince Philip.

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Illustration: MIRROR

Text from ONCE I WAS A CLEVER BOY

Yesterday, 10 June 2020, was His Royal Highness' Prince Philip’s 99th Birthday.

This Post is to express Loyal Greetings and Good Wishes to His Royal Highness.

A life that covers ninety-nine years, and one in so prominent a position, is one full of experiences of all kinds.

It has often been difficult times from his earliest years, and bereavement and uncertainty have been significant events along the journey. It has also been a life of duty to his wife, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, and her family, in support of Crown and Commonwealth - and at times there have been those too quick to find fault or display pettiness about him.

In that, he shares much with Prince Albert in the 19th-Century, and, indeed, virtually all male Consorts of Queens Regnant here and abroad.

To have achieved so much in initiatives alongside his formal role, and to have done it with his distinctive dry humour, is no inconsiderable achievement in the historical long term, let alone in the immediacy of one life.

Many Happy Returns and here’s to the Centenary Birthday next year !!!