Prince Philip has died at 99. Follow the latest updates as the royal family and people around the world react to his death
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News of Prince Philip’s death came in the middle of the National Education Union’s annual conference, with the NEU president Robin Bevan asking delegates for a “moment of reflection” to remember both Prince Philip and teachers and school staff who had been lost to Covid in the past year.
Bevan highlighted the success of the Duke of Edinburgh awards for young people, which Prince Philip helped establish in 1956. “These opportunities have transformed young lives and that is one aspect of Prince Philip’s legacy we should pay respect to,” Bevan, a head teacher from Essex, told the conference.
Scott Morrison, the prime minister of Australia, has also paid tribute:
For nearly 80 years, Prince Philip served his Crown, his country and the Commonwealth.
His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh was, in the words of Her Majesty, her ‘strength and stay’. He embodied a generation that we will never see again.
