{"id":110394,"date":"2024-04-13T17:14:26","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T00:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=110394"},"modified":"2024-04-13T17:14:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T00:14:26","slug":"prince-philips-last-words-to-his-son-king-charles-iii-were-a-witty-joke-with-a-bittersweet-taste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/prince-philips-last-words-to-his-son-king-charles-iii-were-a-witty-joke-with-a-bittersweet-taste\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Philip&#8217;s last words to his son King Charles III were a witty joke with a bittersweet taste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a documentary that honors the memory of <strong>Queen Elizabeth<\/strong>&#8216;s late husband, <strong>Prince Philip<\/strong>&#8216;s last words to his son, the current <strong>King Charles III<\/strong>, were a witty joke with a bittersweet taste, but one that the monarch remembers with great love.<\/p>\n<p>Charles mentioned during an interview for the <strong>BBC<\/strong> film that the telephone conversation that took place the day before his father Philip&#8217;s death had a spontaneous response that showed his lucid and perfect sense of <strong>humor<\/strong> despite his advanced age of 99.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-110460\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/The-late-monarch-maintained-his-sense-of-humor-until-the-day-he-died.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/The-late-monarch-maintained-his-sense-of-humor-until-the-day-he-died.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/The-late-monarch-maintained-his-sense-of-humor-until-the-day-he-died-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/The-late-monarch-maintained-his-sense-of-humor-until-the-day-he-died-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/The-late-monarch-maintained-his-sense-of-humor-until-the-day-he-died-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/The-late-monarch-maintained-his-sense-of-humor-until-the-day-he-died-750x500.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/The-late-monarch-maintained-his-sense-of-humor-until-the-day-he-died-1140x760.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>King Charles III mentioned to his father that the family was talking about celebrating his centenary and wanted to know if he agreed. As he was having difficulty hearing, Philip&#8217;s youngest son repeated, &#8220;<em><strong>We&#8217;re talking about your birthday! And whether there&#8217;s going to be a reception!<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; in a higher tone.<\/p>\n<p>Eloquently, Prince Philip answered, &#8220;<em><strong>Well, I&#8217;ve got to be alive for it, haven&#8217;t I?<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; This caused his eldest son Charles III to say, &#8220;<em><strong>I told him &#8216;I knew you&#8217;d say&#8221;that!<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; This is a memory the monarch collects as a happy moment, despite the fact that the next day his father passed away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a documentary that honors the memory of Queen Elizabeth&#8216;s late husband, Prince Philip&#8216;s last words to his son, the current King Charles III, were a witty joke with a bittersweet taste, but one that the monarch remembers with great love. Charles mentioned during an interview for the BBC film that the telephone conversation that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2817,"featured_media":110459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,1795],"tags":[1881],"class_list":{"0":"post-110394","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-royal-family","9":"tag-king-charles-iii"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}