With Prince Philip’s death, the Queen’s elite inner circle is even smaller

For more than 70 years, Prince Philip was right there. He was a few steps behind and perhaps sometimes a little out of line, but always there supporting his wife and Queen.

Without him, the Queen says there is a “huge void” in her life and it’s a place in her inner circle that cannot be easily filled. 

Prince Philip was the only man in the world who treated the Queen “simply as another human…