Prince Philip, husband of the Queen Isabel II for more than seven decades, died this Friday two months after his centenaryHe was recently released from hospital after a heart intervention that had been successful, the Buckingham Palace
“With deep pain, her majesty the queen announces the death of her beloved husband, His Royal Highness the Prince Felipe, duke of Edinburghsaid a statement from the Buckingham Palace
His Royal Highness passed away peacefully this morning in the Castle of Windsor“he specified.
It is with deep sadness that Her Majesty the Queen announced the death of her beloved husband, His Royal Highness Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
His Royal Highness passed away peacefully this morning at Windsor Castle. pic.twitter.com/XOIDQqlFPn
– The Royal Family (@RoyalFamily) April 9, 2021
After knowing his death, the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson acclaimed “extraordinary life and work” of the prince and sent a register of condolence to the queen.
British flags On Friday they were already swinging at half mast at noon, after the Duke’s announcement of death Edinburgh
Felipe, what on June 10 he had to be 100 years old, was last seen on March 16, wearing a white shirt and cream sweater, in the backseat of a vehicle of the King Edward VII’s hospital from London, where he had been admitted a month earlier.
From there he returned to castillo de Windsor, about 50 km west of Londonwhere he and the 94-year-old queen have been incarcerated since the start of the pandemic from coronavirus more than a year ago.
It had been years since they’d spent so much time together, since he spent much of the year in the royal residence of Sandringham and the queen in the palace of Buckingham o the Windsor
He was hospitalized for an infection
After being hospitalized on February 16, as a “precautionary measure” after feeling unwell, and in light of speculation and concerns about his advanced age, the Royal Household reported that your income was not related to covid-19It was an infection.
Under strong media expectation, he was transferred from the small and elegant at the beginning of March King Edward VII, to the large public hospital St Bartholomew
There, which, according to its website, houses the largest department specialized in cardiovascular diseases Europe, underwent a “successful” operation “to treat pre-existing heart disease.”
British Royal Family, in crisis
His death represents another setback for the British Royal Family in a convulsive moment for the monarchy, shaken by one of its greatest institutional crises as a result of an explosive interview granted by the prince Enrique and his wife Meghan to the star of American television in March Oprah Winfrey
In this one, Enrique, 36, and Meghan, 38, explained the reasons for their resounding withdrawal from British royalty and into exile CaliforniaAnd they assured that a member of the royal family had expressed “concern” about the skin color their children would have, since her mother is black.
Shortly after Enrique he specified that they hadn’t even been his grandmother, the Queen, nor his grandfather, Felipe, known for his blunders and insipid jokes, as well as his strong temper and bluntness.
Prince Philip’s health
The Duke of Edinburgh it officially ceased operations in August 2017 after participating in more than 22,000 acts related to his position since 1952, when his wife ascended the throne.
However, he sporadically accompanies the queen in public appearances in June 2017 he was hospitalized for two nights because of 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 royal property Sandringhambut the prince Felipe he emerged unharmed and was hospitalized at the end of the year for “pre-existing health problems.”