Prince Philip apologised to President Richard Nixon for a fake pas at a White Home dinner in 1969.
In a handwritten be aware to the president uncovered by archivists on the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, California, the Duke of Edinburgh wrote to “humbly apologise” for failing to toast the president’s well being as dictated by protocol throughout a stag dinner in his honor.
“After the brilliance of the opposite audio system and your self, I’m afraid my contribution was very lame,” Philip wrote to Nixon from Greenland on Nov. 7 after his solo U.S. journey had concluded. He added: “That night time I awoke in a chilly sweat after I realized I had forgotten to suggest your well being!”
Jim Byron, government vp of the Nixon Basis stated: “I feel the letter itself reveals the character of Prince Philip that a lot of the general public within the U.Okay. and throughout the Commonwealth, and actually internationally, have come to admire”.
He stated the letter was found earlier than the coronavirus pandemic however made public this week, as a method of marking Philip’s dying.
“It expresses some personal emotions of a second in time that the general public actually does not all the time get an opportunity to see,” Byron added.