QUEEN Elizabeth II has described being left with a “huge void in her life” after her husband Prince Philip’s death, their son Prince Andrew said Sunday.
Speaking to media after attending a service at the chapel at Royal Lodge Windsor, the Duke of York said: “I feel very sorry and supportive of my mother who is feeling it probably more than anybody else.”
Philip, the lifelong companion of the Queen and the longest-serving consort in British history, died at the age of 99 on Friday. His body will lie at Windsor Castle until his funeral on Saturday.
“He was a remarkable man, I loved him as a father. He was so calm. If you had a problem he would think about it,” Andrew said. “He was always someone you could go to.”
Prince Philip and Prince Andrew at Epsom Racecourse, England, in June 2016.
The news of Philip’s death was
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