At the Platinum Jubilee event, Queen Elizabeth was seen holding a cane. But not just any cane. “I recognized the stick instantly as it was always kept in a pot by the front door,” Prince Philip‘s biographer Gyles Brandreth told The Telegraph. “It was the duke’s stick, and it is very touching that the queen has started using it.”
Elizabeth started using a cane in 2021, according to People, after never having used one other than to recover from knee surgery in 2003. Philip was first spotted with the cane Elizabeth used at Sandringham House in 2013 (per People).
In a statement from the queen marking Accession Day, she, of course, mentioned Philip. “I was blessed that in Prince Philip I had a partner willing to carry out the role of consort and unselfishly make the sacrifices that go with it,” she wrote.
The Sandringham House event was a tea party with local volunteers, children, and pensioners as guests (per Woman & Home). The public Platinum Jubilee celebrations on the first weekend of June will include, per the British royal family website, a baking competition, a parade, a lighting of beacons, and more.
