Queen Elizabeth Says Goodbye To Husband Prince Philip With Note On His Coffin
PEOPLE reported that Her Majesty signed the personal note with her childhood nickname, “Lilibet.” According to the Associated Press, the 94-year-old monarch also chose the white lilies, small roses, freesia and other flowers in the wreath that adorned the Duke of Edinburgh’s casket. Queen Elizabeth married Prince Philip at Westminster Abbey in 1947. In a speech on their golden wedding anniversary in 1997, Her Majesty said that her husband “is someone who doesn’t take easily to compliments but he has, quite simply, been my strength and stay all these years, and I, and his whole family, and this and many other countries, owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim, or we shall ever know....