Queen Elizabeth II is paying tribute to her late husband Prince Philip on the 1-year anniversary of his death.Her Royal Highness' official Twitter account posted a touching message Saturday dedicated to the Duke of Edinburgh, who died last year at 99 from old age.
The social media post included the poem «The Patriarchs — An Elegy» by Simon Armitage.The poem read in part, «The weather in the window this morning is snow, unseasonal singular flakes, a slow winter's shiver.
On such an occasion to presume to eulogise 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, an sidestepped torpedoes.»The poem continued. «Husband 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.»Remembering His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh on the first anniversary of his death.
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