Prince Philip’s stirring funeral leaves Megxit anger behind

Despite his funeral being a vastly scaled-down affair due to COVID-19 restrictions, Prince Philip stuck it to Meghan, Harry and Oprah with his regal send-off.

The final sacrifice of the often contrarian husband of Queen Elizabeth II – who walked two paces behind his wife for 73 years – was to elicit admiration, awe and sympathy for the Crown after it came so brutally under fire from their jibes. What better way to erase the optics of that infamous interview in the gardens of a Santa Barbara mansion than to dazzle the world with British pomp and circumstance at Windsor Castle?