Prince Philip, father of King Charles, battled inoperable pancreatic cancer for eight years before shuffling off in search of a final beer and slipping away at Windsor Castle on 9 April 2021, just shy of his 100th birthday, according to a bombshell new biography.
The Duke of Edinburgh's official death certificate pinned it on 'old age,' a bland entry that masked what royal historian Hugo Vickers now portrays as a gritty, drawn-out fight against a killer disease. Vickers, with his deep ties to the family, lays it out in Queen Elizabeth II: A Personal History, serialised in the Daily Mail.
