Prince Philip's foreign travels in pictures
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In 1952 Prince Philip and the then Princess Elizabeth were enjoying a break in Kenya when news came through that George VI had died
In 1959, the couple visited the US city of Chicago. It followed a tour of Canada in which the Queen, as Canada's head of state, and US President Dwight D Eisenhower, inaugurated the 2,300-mile St Lawrence Seaway
Prince Philip and the Queen took part in a state visit to Italy in 1961 which included a cruise along Venice's famous canals
Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia showed the royal couple a view overlooking the Blue Nile Falls during their visit in 1965
1966 saw Prince Philip and the Queen in the Bahamas as part of a tour of the Caribbean
The Queen and Prince Philip were joined by other members of the royal family for the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, Canada
The royal couple were entertained by traditional dancers on board the Royal Yacht Britannia when they visited Fiji in 1977, the Queen's Silver Jubilee year
The Duke of Edinburgh was given a falconry demonstration during a state visit to Bahrain in 1979
Traditional dancers performed in Tuvalu during a royal tour of the South Pacific in 1982. Some villagers on the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu revere the Duke of Edinburgh as a divine being
Prince Philip clung on for a ride on an elephant during a visit to to India in 1983
The Duke of Edinburgh provoked displeasure during a Royal visit to China in 1986 when he described Beijing as "ghastly" and told British students: "If you stay here much longer you'll all be slitty-eyed."
In 2002 the Duke was reported to have startled Australian Aborigines by asking: "Do you still throw spears at each other?" The bizarre question was apparently posed to Aboriginal cultural park owner William Brim during a royal visit to Cairns in Queensland
In 2003 in Nigeria, he told a robed President Olusegun Obasanjo: "You look like you’re ready for bed."