Queen Elizabeth was offered the rose final week (File)
London:
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth has been given a rose named after her late husband Prince Philip to mark what would have been his 100th birthday on Thursday, Buckingham Palace stated.
Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, died on April 9, simply two months wanting his landmark birthday after greater than seven a long time of marriage to Elizabeth, who’s now 95.
The Palace stated that final week Elizabeth had been offered with a Duke of Edinburgh Rose – a newly bred pink commemorative rose – in his reminiscence.
It has since been planted on the rose border of the East Terrace Backyard on the queen’s Windsor Fortress house to the west of London, the place she has spent most of her time for the reason that outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and the place her husband died.
“While being very poignant, it was a delight to provide Her Majesty The Queen … the Duke of Edinburgh Rose to mark what would have been (his) 100th birthday and to recollect his exceptional life,” stated Keith Weed, President of the Royal Horticultural Society.
A royalty from the sale of every rose will go in direction of the Duke of Edinburgh Award Residing Legacy Fund, supporting a scheme for younger folks that Philip arrange and which now operates in additional than 130 international locations.
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