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Letters

The obituary of Prince Philip (“Philip was the queen’s ‘strength and stay’”, April 10) referred to three trips he made to Hong Kong. 
Well, there was at least one further trip to Hong Kong, in March 1981 when he opened the Prince Philip Dental Hospital in the city, on which occasion I, along with other dental academics from the University of Hong Kong, met him. May he rest in peace.
The omission of mention in your obituary of the Prince Philip Dental Hospital is surprising, all the more so given that it houses the University of Hong Kong’s Faculty of Dentistry, which is ranked third among the world’s dental schools by the QS World University Rankings 2021, and which had been No 1 in the world for three successive years during the past decade.
Esmonde Corbet, Pok Fu Lam

Role in Japanese surrender of Hong Kong remembered
Your obituary of Prince Philip was balanced and personally moving, but you got one fact wrong – he had been to Hong Kong more than three times.
What was probably his first visit took place in September 1945 when he was serving as Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten aboard the Royal Navy destroyer HMS Whelp, then attached to the British Pacific Fleet under Admiral Bruce Fraser. They saw much combat.After witnessing the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay on September 2, Whelp, with a 24-year-old Philip aboard as first lieutenant, was dispatched to Hong Kong on September 9. The Japanese forces in Hong Kong formally surrendered on September 16.I am reliably informed (in fact, I and a number of other Hongkongers were there) that at a private dinner in London in March 2013, talk of the Hong Kong handover came up and Prince Philip groused a bit to the Hongkonger sitting next to him: “I was always a bit put out that they sent Charles to give the place back. I thought it should have been me, after all, I liberated the place.”This was not meant to be self-promotion but was the typical wardroom humour he loved, and it produced guffaws of laughter from those lucky enough to be seated at the same table.So rest in peace, your Royal Highness, thanks for your more than eight decades of service and sincerest condolences to Her Majesty the Queen and the rest of the royal family. 
Ian Dubin, Shek Tong Tsui


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Opinion


The Duke of Edinburgh had been in Hong Kong more than three times, including in 1981 to open the Prince Philip Dental Hospital



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The Duke of Edinburgh had been in Hong Kong more than three times, including in 1981 to open the Prince Philip Dental Hospital