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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Lizzy Buchan

Downing Street party before Philip funeral 'ran to 1am with guests using Wilf's slide'

Downing Street staff are said to have partied until 1am at boozy leaving drinks held the night before Prince Philip's funeral.

Fresh details have emerged of the two gatherings held in No 10 on April 16 2021, hours before the Queen sat alone to mourn her husband of 73 years at a service at St George's Chapel in Windsor.

The night before, officials danced while drinking wine in plastic cups, ordered takeaway pizza and tried out Boris Johnson's son Wilf's slide, according to The Telegraph.

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