Prince Philip’s personal funeral request unveiled a year after death

Prince Philip reportedly wanted a ‘small-scale’ and ‘no-fuss’ funeral, according to newly unearthed accounts of the late Duke of Edinburgh, reported Express UK.

Prince Philip, who passed away last year at the age of 99 at the height of a COVID lockdown in the UK, received a small funeral that was attended by just 30 people and that is exactly how he wanted it to be.

In a 2013 report by The Daily Mail, Philip was quoted by Palace officials saying: “I don't want the fuss of a full state funeral.”

The Duke of Edinburgh even refused to lie in state after his death; a tradition that requires a dead body of an official to be placed in a state building.

According to a royal aide: “Prince Philip doesn’t see himself as important enough for that.”

This plan was followed at Philip’s death, and his body ‘lay in rest’ at a private chapel in Windsor Castle.

Philip also did not receive a state funeral, and was instead given a royal ceremonial funeral.

Mike Tindall, the husband of Philip’s granddaughter Zara Tindall, also shared on his podcast: “I look back on the day I think is eerie as it was with no crowds and the social distancing. I think it was the perfect day for how he would have liked it, if that makes any sense whatsoever.”