Obit Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, has died at the age of 99. The Queen's husband died at Windsor Castle this morning.
His death was announced by Buckingham Palace at midday today.
PM Boris Johnson addressed locked-down Brits from the steps of 10 Downing Street, saying: "We mourn today with Her Majesty the Queen." The prince, said Johnson, was the Queen's "strength and stay of more than 70 years."
"Speaking on their golden wedding anniversary," he added, "Her Majesty said that our country owed her husband a greater debt than he would ever claim or we shall ever know. And I am sure that estimate is correct."
Prince Philip's most memorable contribution to the world of British technology was a passive one: it was his personal ViewData message box that was targeted by Prestel hackers Robert Schifreen and Steve Gold, as Schifreen related to us in depth back in 2015, on the 30th anniversary of the duo being nicked. The Reg was told at the time that the prince's message box "mostly contained birthday greetings to Princess Diana from random members of the public" and showed no signs of Philip himself using it.
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Once Philip learnt of the hack, he is said to have "delivered a blistering laser beam of disapproval from Buck House" at BT, which operated the insecure infrastructure to which Gold and Schifreen were trying to draw public attention. The ultimate result of the ..
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