Keeping his legacy alive. The 2021 British Academy of Film and Television Arts ceremony honored its first-ever president, Prince Philip, after his death at age 99.“Tonight we want to say on behalf of BAFTA that we are extremely saddened by the passing of His Royal Highness Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, on Friday,” host Clara Amfo said during night one of the two-part ceremony on Saturday, April 10. “The Duke was BAFTA’s very first president over 60 years ago and was the first in a line of royal patronages all the way through to BAFTA’s current president, his grandson, the Duke of Cambridge.”Amfo, 36, added: “It was Prince Philip and Her Majesty the Queen’s support throughout these years that in many ways allowed BAFTA, a leading charity
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