Prince Phillip, 96, managed to soldier on through the immense pain of a cracked rib for the wedding.
Prince Phillip, 96, managed to soldier on through the immense pain of a cracked rib for the wedding.
Prince Phillip wasn't going to let a cracked rib keep him from his grandson Prince Harry's wedding after a fall in the bath a few days earlier.
The 96-year-old managed to soldier on through the immense pain for the one-hour ceremony at Windsor Castle and reception on Saturday.
The grandfatherof the groom seemed cheery with a beaming smile as he arrived at the St George's Chapel with the Queen, walking unaided without a cane.
"The Duke is not a fan of showering and prefers to bathe. But he's a determined man and nothing was going to stop him attending nor would he take any kind of walking aid," a royal insider told The Sun.
Prince Phillip took the British stiff upper lip to new heights as even a slightly cracked rib is extremely painful with a stabbing pain at each breath.
"Given that he is 96 years old and the operation was just six weeks ago, I think that shows what an extraordinary man he is," she said earlier this week.
"That will have meant a huge amount to Prince Harry. He is enormously fond of his grandfather."
Junor, and the millions of others watching the wedding, would not have known just how heroic the great-grandfather was that afternoon.
His surgery in April followed a series of missed public appearances, including a ceremony at Windsor Castle to formally hand over his role as Colonel of the Grenadier Guards to his son Prince Charles.
He retired from public duties last year – which Buckingham Palace stressed was not health-related – but still accompanies the Queen on some public appearances.
