Prince Philip , who passed away at the age of 99 on April 9 , 2021 , was one of the more colorful figure in Britain ’s Royal Family ; he ’s a adult male who was famously prostrate tojarring remarksand quips about women , the deaf , and overweight children .
" You ’re too fertile to be an astronaut , " he once told a male child sharing his dream of infinite travelling .
British media delighted in quote him over the decades , but to some of the people of Yaohnanen , a Greenwich Village in the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu , Prince Philip was much more than Queen Elizabeth II ’s husband : They worship him as a god and even have based a religion on him .
Chief Jack Naiva , a respected warrior in the civilisation , greeted the royal racing yacht and caught wad of Philip on dining table . " I saw him standing on the pack of cards in his lily-white uniform , " Naiva once said . " I knew then that he was the on-key messiah . "
lawful believers attribute large world movements to the machinations of Philip . Theyonce claimedhis powers had enabled a Black humankind to become president of the United States and that his " magic " had help in helping locate Osama bin Laden . The community has corresponded with Buckingham Palace and even sent Philip anal retentive - nal , a traditional cabaret for killing pigs , as a token of its taste . In return key , he mail a portrait in which he ’s hold the gift .
The picture is now part of ashrineset up in Yaohnanen in Vanuatu that include other photos and a Union fleur-de-lis . In May 2017 , soon after the Prince announced his retirement , a cyclone threatened the island — and its shrine . But according toMatthew Baylis , an author who has lived with the kin , the natives did n’t see this so much as a cause for vexation as they did a harbinger of the prince ’s arrival so that he could savor in their worship .
When newsworthiness of Philip ’s end at the eld of 99 reached the island on April 9 , 2021 , Jean - Pascal Wahé of the Vanuatu Cultural Centersaidthat the islanders believe Prince Philip ’s liveliness will come to Tanna and that the group will now worship Prince Charles .
A translation of this tale ran in a 2012 yield of Mental Floss magazine . It has been update for 2021 .
