Philip’s wish
PRINCE Philip is said to have wanted his funeral tomorrow to be as free from fuss as possible — not so easy for a family drenched in pomp and ceremony.
While pandemic restrictions have helped pare back the pageantry, tricky choices have fallen to the Queen in the hardest week of her near 70-year reign.
Typically, Her Majesty has shouldered the burden with poise and practicality.
A row over whether military uniforms could be worn by errant princes Andrew and Harry — the only two members of the family, after Philip’s passing, to have seen active military service — threatened to overshadow proceedings.
It was nimbly sidestepped by a decree that male mourners wear morning suits.
Now we learn that William and Harry will not walk side by side during the funeral procession, with their cousin Peter acting as a buffer instead.
While this may disappoint those who hoped to see evidence of a thawing in the brothers’ feud, it will help to ensure the focus remains on the right person.
Their late grandfather.
Rebel bullies
THE Sun and its readers care deeply about the environment, as our long- running Green Team campaign shows.
Take our “Show Some Bottle” drive to boost plastic recycling — a constructive, achievable idea to help clean up the planet.
None of this matters to Extinction Rebellion’s motley crew of leftie malcontents, who get their jollies from smashing “the system”, not to mention a few windows along the way.
They prefer to suppress less hysterical viewpoints than their own by blockading newspaper printing sites, with another assault on the media plotted in June.
Last time they pulled such a stunt, back in September, they stopped our interview with green champion Sir David Attenborough reaching readers.
But here’s a thought.
If XR’s pie-in-the-sky demands had merit, why would they need to silence those striving to make the world greener in a more effective way?
Clot clots
THE arguments used by some countries for halting use of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine were always rickety.
The latest study — on the extremely rare CVT brain clots linked to some Covid jabs — blows them to smithereens.
The data shows that catching Covid itself increases the risk of developing a CVT clot 100-fold.
That’s eight times higher than the vaccines themselves.
And that’s without factoring in the increased risk of other types of blood clot that catching the virus also brings.
The study concludes the benefit of the jabs outweighs risk, even in under-30s.
The other option is to gamble on not catching Covid-19 at all at any point.
Well, we never said it was a good option.
