The Duke of York spoke to the media after attending a service at the chapel at Royal Lodge Windsor: “I feel very sorry and support my mother who probably feels this way more than anyone else.”
“He was a remarkable man, I loved him as a father. He was so calm. If you had a problem, he would think about it,” Andrew said. “He was always someone you could go to.”
The royal family itself feels ‘everyone has a great sense of loss’, the duke said. “We almost lost the grandfather of the country.”
Asked how his mother feels, Andrew replies: ‘The queen, as you would expect, is an incredibly stoic person. And she described her passing as a miracle.
“She described it as a big gap in her life,” the duke said, adding that the family was “coming together to make sure we were there to support her.”