When he turned 90, then Prime Minister David Cameron called him "a national treasure" at a parliamentary session specially convened to honor him. Anyone who is averse to sentimentality would have loved to ignore so much praise. But the laudation for Prince Philip, the most loyal servant of his ruler, the Queen, was more than deserved. A long time ago in the course of a TV interview he had even foreseen what would happen to him in his advanced years: “If Her Majesty and I have become really antique,” ​​he speculated in 1968, “then, I dare say, we could maybe there is a little more awe again. "