Prince Philip has always understood duty, stoicism and his Royal role

A Royal grafter

WHAT next for 99-year-old battler Prince Philip after his long hospital ordeal?

Will he recline on Oprah’s sofa whining about his victimhood and how short of handed-down money he is?

Er, no.

Because the tough old boy always understood duty, stoicism and his Royal role.

Unlike Harry and Meghan, who — fresh from convincing credulous Americans our Royals are racist — have now blabbed about having “unproductive” phone calls last week with William and Charles.

Remember that, when next the “Sussexes” whinge about their privacy. Anyone else’s appears to be fair game.

Wills now knows anything he says privately to Harry and Meghan may be leaked to friends who like TV cameras.

The prickly pair may be increasingly disliked here . . . but they still have a US profile to maintain, after all.

Fixed defence

BORIS Johnson’s blueprint for our defence is radical, innovative and vast in scope but it won’t all be music to Sun readers’ ears.

With a £24billion budget boost, it ­covers everything from preparations for a new pandemic to counter-terror operations, to space, cyber and nuclear war.

It rightly capitalises on Brexit by plotting a more active, outward-looking role for Britain in the world, solidifying ties with the US and getting tougher on the threats from Russia and Iran.

And while big cuts in troops, tanks, jets and ships look worrying, warfare has changed and we accept those can be outperformed by the best tech, intelligence and world-class leaders.

We applaud, after years of scandals, the refocusing of foreign aid on projects that benefit Britain. Our readers will want tangible proof of that.

We do struggle with “building a stronger economic relationship” with China where it “is consistent with our values”. China’s values are mainly repugnant.

And why do we need 80 more nukes for a “minimum credible deterrent”, as Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab says?

Aren’t 180 city-destroying bombs enough?

EU utter fools

DO not trust a word coming from the capitals of Europe about the supposed perils of the Oxford/AstraZeneca jab.

Millions have had it with no ill effects. Almost all have hugely enhanced their protection against Covid. Literally none now has a greater risk of a blood clot.

Boris Johnson will have his jab on Friday.

When your turn comes, do so too.

Let the leaders of EU states rubbish it.

Let them set back their catastrophic rollout yet further.

Pray for the citizens they are betraying with their politically driven and lethal scaremongering.

Just don’t be taken in.

Much of the world, including even the European Commission, is watching their antics in open-mouthed horror. Rightly so.

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