Every so often over the last decades a youngster in the parish asks me to write and sign a sheet for them, most commonly one of the altar servers. This is the 'service' part of the Duke of Edinburgh Award, Like many others I have watched bits of the TV coverage of Prince Philip's life. For me, it has been these individual moments with youngsters that has brought him closest, and we are being shown that he had a similar keen and personal interest in many other aspects of national life.
My other encounter with his life was on a visit to Corfu back in 1994. On a coach tour of the island we were shown Mon Repos, a large house (below) where, we were told, Prince Philip was born. What a strange journey, from a sunny palace in the Mediterranean, to a life serving Queen and country in distant Britain. May he rest in peace.
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