The poem, written by U.K. poet laureate Simon Armitage, is paired with a video montage of special moments in the royal couple's life together.
for the late Duke of Edinburgh, held at Westminster Abbey, where dozens of royals from around the world, 700 charities and organizations, and many close family members and friends celebrated the royal's life and legacy. The remembrance was a chance for the monarch to honor her late husband surrounded by friends and well-wishers, after COVID restrictions limited attendance at Philip's funeral last year.
The 45-minute ceremony included praise of the late royal's"gifts of character, for his humor and resilience, his fortitude and devotion to duty," as well as his"service as a consort, liege man of life and limb, and of earthly worship to Her Majesty."The weather in the window this morningto presume to eulogise one man is to pipe upwho came ashore in orange-crate coracles,with flaming decoy boats, and side-stepped torpedoes.
To study their hands at rest was to picture maps showing hachured valleys and indigo streams, schemes of old campaigns and reconnaissance missions.they kept their best tricks for the grand finale: Disproving Immortality and Disappearing Entirely. The major oaks in the wood start tuning up and skies to come will deliver their tributes. But for now, a cold April’s closing moments parachute slowly home, so by mid-afternoon snow is recast as seed heads and thistledown.
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