Inside Prince Philip's last night: How he gave nurses the slip, helped himself to a beer and enjoyed a bath before quietly slipping away… and why the Queen was 'furious' after receiving the news. HUGO VICKERS reveals his final hours | Daily Mail Online Home Buyline Beauty Published: 00:22 BST, 29 March 2026 | Updated: 15:20 BST, 29 March 2026 More than three years after her death, an impeccably researched biography of Queen Elizabeth has disclosed some of her most candid thoughts – including, as yesterday’s Daily Mail revealed, the Royal Family’s views on Meghan Markle. Today’s extract from royal historian Hugo Vickers’ book charts her final months and the loss of Prince Philip… For Prince Philip, the first intimations of mortality came at the end of 2011, just two days before Christmas. That day, he was airlifted from Sandringham to Royal Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, with chest pains. He underwent a successful coronary angioplasty and the replacement of a stent.He spent four nights in hospital, during which time the Queen took a helicopter flight of 70 miles to see him. Normally the Royal Family were not great hospital visitors, so her visit indicated particular concern that she might lose him.Presently he was declared out of danger, but the Queen would not let him leave hospital in time for the Boxing…
Published: March 29, 2026 2:20 pm
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