Manori Ravindran International EditorBritain is slowly coming to terms with the death of Prince Philip on Friday, with major figures extending condolences and Britons reflecting on the royal consort’s enduring legacy.Married to Queen Elizabeth II for 73 years, the prince had been in and out of hospital in recent years with ill health, and retired from public life altogether in August 2017 at 96.“He outlived nearly everyone who knew him and might explain him,” wrote BBC royal correspondent Jonny Drymond of the prince, noting that only a “two-dimensional” portrait remains. “Salt-tongued and short-tempered, a man who told off-colour jokes and made politically incorrect remarks, an eccentric great-uncle who’d been around forever and towards.
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