The Queen breaks her silence on Prince Philip’s death‘Great sadness’

The public for holding her “during a period of great sadness” Queen has marked her 95th birthday with a rare personal statement thanking. Since April 9 She had been “deeply touched” by the response death of Prince Philip and his funeral last Saturday, the grieving monarch. This all started when the couple first met as children at a wedding in 1934; he was 13 and she just eight. They would meet again at the Royal Naval College in Devon in 1939 and wrote to each other constantly afterward.

After that, they announced their engagement in July 1947 and married that same year. She told “I have, on the occasion of my 95th birthday today, received many messages of good wishes, which I very much appreciate,” “While as a family we are in a period of great sadness, it has been a comfort to us all to see and to hear the tributes paid to my husband, from those within the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth, and around the world”.

“My family and I would like to thank you all for the support and kindness shown to us in recent days. We have been deeply touched, and continue to be reminded that Philip had such an extraordinary impact on countless people throughout his life.” The following link takes straight to Images of the widowed monarch sitting alone at the Windsor Castle funeral to comply with COVID-19 limitations provoked a flow of public sympathy. The instruction was: a maximum of 30 people can attend funerals in England and they must sit at least two meters apart from others.

On the other hand, the government is under pressure to relax the rules, given infections, hospitalizations, and deaths from COVID-19 have fallen over recent weeks. Sadly Philip, died at Windsor Castle just two months short of his 100th birthday.

Then she told to reporters: “She described it as having left a huge void in her life, but we, the family, the ones that are close, are rallying around to make sure that we’re there to support her,”