Prince phillip

Prince Philip once said, 'I can't imagine anything worse. I'm already falling to pieces as it is,' according to royal biographer Gyles Brandreth's new book Philip: The Final Portrait

Philip, who by 1973 had taken up the sport competitively, representing Britain at several European and World Championships, looked delighted to be back in the driver's seat.

On April 9, Buckingham Palace announced that Prince Philip died at age 99. Look back at his life in pictures.

HE chose England. So it is an irony befitting Shakespeare that the funeral of the Greek-born prince, who became the Duke of Edinburgh and the Queen’s strength and stay, should decide the fate of hi…