Thread by @RE_DailyMail

A few personal memories of the late #dukeofedinburgh - starting with his last ever official engagement with the Rifles last year.....

It was so impressive that at 99 - and having had a hip replacement two years previously - he waked down the stairs at the Equerries Entrance at Windsor Castle unaided.....

On the forecourt at Buckingham Palace, senior royal officials were in tears as he officially retired in 2017 - months after I revealed palace officials had called a secret meeting about the issue exclusively in the Mail.....

.....there was a palpable sense of shock that Philip would no longer be at his wife’s wife in public.....

.....Here #PrincePhilip accompanies the Queen on an engagement in June 2017 as they re-enact Queen Victoria’s historic first rail trip.....

.....always enquiring, always looking round.....

.....and always at his wife’s side.....

......at the Tower of London.....

......in Berlin in 2015.....

....and at the Queen’s 90th birthday celebrations....

.....looking at the car step as if to say ‘take that!’

.....gosh, that’s a memory! .....

....and finally at the Order of the Garter in 2015.....

There are too many memories to tweet.
But one video I have stumbled across tonight has made me think. That from now on, the Queen will need these people around her more than ever #PrincePhilip #DukeofEdinburgh #RIP