{"id":7229,"date":"2017-05-08T15:29:07","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T14:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/?p=7229"},"modified":"2021-04-09T13:35:20","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T12:35:20","slug":"hrh-prince-philip-1985-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/hrh-prince-philip-1985-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"HRH Prince Philip 1985 &amp; 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the announcement from Buckingham Palace that Prince Philip (1921-2021) has sadly died, I thought I&#8217;d look back at two visits by him to Imperial College events.<\/p>\n<p>Strictly speaking, the first one is not an actual visit to the campus but rather to the 1985 City and Guilds Centenary dinner held at the Guild Hall in London. He was the special guest and main speaker at the dinner and this was what he said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z8Io5krBDKY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>During the Imperial College 2007 Centenary Celebrations a ceremony was held in the main entrance. The college conferred on Prince Philip the Degree of Doctor of Science. Lord Kerr was, at the time, Chairman of the Court and Council, the Rector was Sir Richard Sykes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bDj7xCs33bI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p><strong>Colin Grimshaw April 2021<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the announcement from Buckingham Palace that Prince Philip (1921-2021) has sadly died, I thought I&#8217;d look back at two visits by him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18461,53,80],"tags":[18469,3929,438,18452],"class_list":["post-7229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-history","category-events","category-people","tag-centenary","tag-city-and-guilds","tag-rector","tag-royal-family"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>HRH Prince Philip 1985 &amp; 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