Several titles have referred to the longevity of this extraordinary pair, including Prince Sangha, who died on Friday at the age of 99, according to the Times and Guardian, or even “Rock Rock,” according to Queen. Had “unwavering support”. For the Daily Star. For this newspaper, there was also Prince Philip who “made Lillibet laugh”, the affection nickname he gave to his wife Elizabeth.

In Scotland, The Press and Journal greeted the man who was also the Duke of Edinburgh, with an old photograph of the royal couple and their children wearing a kiln.

The Daily Mirror and Daily Mail tabloids, which usually oppose political positions, published almost identical headlines with a photo of the couple and the titles “Goodbye My Loved” for Mirror and “Goodbye My Dear” for Mail. Prince Harry noted the solidarity of the royal family ready to return “home”, according to the newspaper, after Prince Harry was in recent exile from his American exile and his family.

“What character, what clown”

“We all cry with you, ma’am,” assures Surya for her part, published on the front page of a photo of the royal couple at their wedding in 1947. “What an extraordinary life. What a heroic and exemplary service he gave to his queen and his country. What character, what a clown”, reassures the newspaper from the first lines of his main article dedicated to this event.

Other titles also relate to this “in life” of the Taj, such as the Evening Standard or the Daily Telegraph which salutes the “most loyal servants of Great Britain”.

The Daily Express, for its part, celebrates the “indomitable duke” while indulging in the queen’s “deep sorrow”.

The only controversial note is that the Morning Star, a leftist daily that never disguised its opposition to the monarchy, published an editorial headline: “Philip faced the absurd boast of an ersatz patriotism”.