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King Charles awards Duke of Edinburgh with Scotland’s highest royal honour

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King Charles awards Duke of Edinburgh with Scotland’s highest royal honour

The Duke of Edinburgh has been awarded to the Order of the Thistle by King Charles.

Only the king can bestow the Order of the Thistle, Scotland’s highest honour. King Charles previously gave his wife Queen Camilla the honour last year. Prince Edward’s appointment comes as he celebrates his 60th birthday today (March 10).




The three other new recipients of the order are anthropologist Professor Dame Sue Black, distinguished lawyer Baroness Helena Kennedy and Scotland’s first black professor Sir Geoff Palmer.

It comes a year after the king appointed Prince Edward the Duke of Edinburgh on his 59th birthday. The duke spoke to Alan Titchmarsh on ITV’s Love Your Weekend about how it’s been taking over from his “extraordinary” dad, Prince Philip, who passed away in 2021 at 99 years old.

The Duke of Edinburgh has shared how he felt a big “weight of expectation” when he got his title from his dad.

“It was a huge privilege, but also quite a lot of weight of expectation as well,” Edward said.

He talked about the big shoes he had to fill with the title, saying, “I mean, there’s an awful lot of legacy that came with that title and everything that my father had done, especially when you’re not inheriting it – this is a choice.”

Prince Edward, the Duke of Edinburgh, sat down for an interview with Alan Titchmarsh(Image: ITV/PA Wire)

After a year as the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Edward said he sometimes doesn’t know where to sit because he’s still not used to seeing his title on a place card.

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