We have just received a statement from Buckingham Palace, an announcement from the Royal Household.

She had yours for the following announcement. Buckingham Palace has announced the death of his Royal Highness, the Duke of Edinburgh.

It is with a deep sorrow that her Majesty, the Queen, announces the death of her beloved husband.

He was 99 years old.

Since the announcement of his death on Friday morning at the age of 99, we've heard tributes from around the world to his Royal Highness, the Duke of Edinburgh.

His life, his foibles, his place in history.

You'll hear numerous accounts of his life and times in the coming days, but today, stories of our times, concentrates on the one event that changed Prince Philip's life forever.

It was announced from Sandrigham at 10.45 today, February the 6th, 1952, that the King, who retired to rest last night in his usual health, passed peacefully away in his sleep earlier this morning.

It was a moment of sadness, of shock, and of clear responsibility. The moment his young wife became Queen.

By whose youth was passed in the August unchallenged and tranquil glories of the Victorian era, may well feel the thrill in invoking once more the prayer and the anthem.

God saved the Queen.

You're listening to stories of our times from the times and the Sunday times. I'm Manvine Rano. Today, Philip, the lost Prince.

Having served with distinction in the Second World War, Prince Philip, a serving naval officer, and Prince of Greece and Denmark, returned to Britain to marry Princess Elizabeth.

With the King's health deteriorating, the young couple took on a greater share of royal duties. It was while they were on an official tour of the Commonwealth that the news broke.

In February 1952, Elizabeth and Philip were in treetops. This was a hotel in Kenya, and what they had was this rather marvelous treehouse over a watering hole.

So you could stay in this treehouse and look down at all the animals coming in to drink the water, so it was a really wonderful experience.

Elizabeth and Philip went to stay there, and what happened while they were there is that the King died.

That's the historian, Professor Kate Williams. She recounts the moment when Prince Philip heard that King George VI had died and his own life was about to change forever.

The palace, when they realised that the King is dead, and that the Queen is in the treehouse, and they don't know how to get hold of her, well this is panic.

They send a sort of telegram out there, but unfortunately the telegram doesn't get there, so the palace don't realise that Elizabeth doesn't know.

So the news goes out across the world that the King is dead, and Elizabeth is the Queen, and she doesn't know.

Really, she's the last person in the world to know that she's Queen.

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