Queen Elizabeth II Shares Emotional Tribute to Late Prince Philip on 1st Anniversary of His Death

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In memoriam. Queen Elizabeth paid tribute to her late husband, Prince Philip, on the first anniversary of his death.“Remembering His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh on the first anniversary of his death,” a tweet on the 95-year-old monarch’s official Royal Family Twitter account read on Saturday, April 9, alongside an audio recording of “The Patriarchs – An Elegy” by U.K.

Poet Laureate Simon Armitage.“The weather in the window this morning is snow / unseasonal singular flakes / a slow winter’s final shiver,” Armitage began reading the poem in the clip. “On such an occasion / to presume to eulogize one man is to pipe up / for a whole generation — that crew whose survival / was always the stuff of minor miracle, / who came ashore in orange-crate coracles, / fought ingenious wars, finagled triumphs at sea / with flaming decoy boats, and side-stepped torpedoes.”He continued, “Husbands to duty, they unrolled their plans / across billiard tables and vehicle bonnets, / regrouped at breakfast.

What their secrets were / was everyone’s guess and nobody’s business. / Great-grandfathers from birth, in time they became / both inner core and outer case / in a family heirloom of nesting dolls. / Like evidence of early man their boot-prints stand / in the hardened earth of rose-beds and borders. ”He added with his third stanza: “They were sons of a zodiac out of sync / with the solar year, but turned their minds / to the day’s big science and heavy questions. / To study their hands at rest was to picture maps / showing hachured valleys and indigo streams, schemes / of old campaigns and reconnaissance missions. / Last of the great avuncular magicians / they kept their best tricks for the grand finale: / Disproving Immortality and