While some may wish to become a centenarian, reaching that milestone birthday was not what Prince Philip wanted. At least that’s what the British royal reportedly told The Telegraph’s reporter Gyles Brandreth in an interview from 2000.
Brandreth recalled the conversation he had with Philip, who was 79 at the time, in an article he wrote in 2019. According to the journalist and TV presenter, Philip had "no desire whatsoever" to reach his 100th birthday. "I can’t imagine anything worse," Brandreth claims the late monarch told him at the start of the millennium (via The Telegraph). "’Bits of me are falling off already.’" Philip died at the age of 99 on April 9, 2021.
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