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The Documentary Podcast

Prince belong Vanuatu

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.32.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Villagers believe Prince Philip is returning to his ancestral home on their Pacific island. In a handful of villages on the island of Tanna, in Vanuatu, he has been revered as an ancestral spirit and son of their mountain god, and they have been waiting for him to return to them, either in person during his lifetime or in spirit form after his death. It is thought the religious movement started after the 1974 royal tour of the Pacific, during which the Queen and Prince Philip visited Vanuatu, then known as the New Hebrides.

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0:00.0

From the BBC World Service

0:02.0

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0:03.0

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0:05.0

How in the world did this happen?

0:07.0

The Lazarus heist episode one is available now.

0:19.0

The longest serving royal consort in British history and husband to one of the most famous women in the world,

0:25.6

Prince Philip walked in the shadow of his wife, Queen Elizabeth II, for most of his adult life.

0:32.1

But in a small corner of the South Pacific, he reigned supreme.

0:37.0

As you'll hear from these interviews we recorded weeks before the prince passed away.

0:44.0

We worship him because he is the spirit of family.

0:51.0

We know that he is the source of our life and our culture.

0:57.0

This is the island of Tana in Vanuatu 10,000 miles from Buckingham Palace.

1:08.0

A volcanic island east of Australia, dominated by an extremely active, consistently explosive volcano, known by local people as Yasser or the old man.

1:20.0

An island where in a handful of villages people are unswerving in their belief

1:25.3

that Prince Philip was and is an ancestral spirit and son of their mountain god.

1:32.1

An island where Prince Philip was honoured during his lifetime

1:36.8

and is still revered after his death.

1:39.8

You're listening to Prince Belong Vanuatu on the BBC World Service with me Joe Dwyer. 40 countries. In most of these he is heralded and much respected as the

1:56.4

consort of a monarch. But of course there is one Tana, part of Vanuatu, where he is

2:02.0

treated slightly differently. In fact no public event in that

2:05.7

far-off part of the Pacific Islands is complete without the islanders holding a loft pictures

2:10.4

of Prince Philip who they worship as a God.

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