Prince Philip, at 96, has retired after a final engagement as Captain General of the Royal Marines. He served with distinction in the Navy during World War Two and retired as a Commander in the early 1950s.
Here's the Old Buccaneer in a Bearskin
Inspecting the troops
Gauging up the Magic Messiah
In a British Warm
Sporting a topper
About to abuse a journalist, and who can blame him?
For me, Prince Philip rises up out of the mist like a man from another age and he is. His generation were raised at a time when Rule Britannia was more than an amusing song in the Albert Hall. The qualities of an Empire were writ large in them.
Indomitable arrogance, perhaps, but lest you forget, how much more preferable than our near-invisible, satanic, transnational elite.
Well done, Prince Philip, you're a hero.
LSP
