Prince Philip remembered, Northern Ireland violence, Sofagate, Biden's corporate tax
He was two months away from turning 100. Prince Philip had occupied the job of consort of the British monarch for nearly seven decades. In 2014, the Queen paid a historic visit to Northern Ireland where Prince Philip found himself alongside the late Martin McGuinness, whose IRA in a previous life had assassinated his uncle, Lord Mountbatten. The Russian embassy in London noted that Philip was the great-great-grandson of Czar Nicholas I.