Dearly DEPARTED

PRINCE PHILIP’S FUNERAL MAKES A SENTIMENTAL KERRE THINK ABOUT OTHER SAD FAREWELLS IN HER LIFE

- KERRE MCIVOR

I didn’t get up to watch the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral, but I did watch it back a couple of days later. It was all everyone at work was talking about, so I watched a replay of it on television. And it was quite lovely. It really did seem to be a funeral that was all about Prince Philip having the final say.

I’d felt in the lead-up to the funeral that there had been so many tributes – verbal, pictorial, and familial – that I could appreciate just how highly he was regarded by so many people. The tributes gave a much more honest portrayal of Philip the man than the rather one-dimensional character he was in the TV series The Crown.

Gosh, that series must have ignited his infamous temper. How awful it must be to have your family members and all their blessings, sadnesses, mistakes and intimacies imagined and re-purposed for the entertainment of the masses. I admit, I watched The Crown, but I always knew it was fiction. Although they got some things right.