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Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh had several hospital stays in the years leading up to his death. In 2012, he was admitted to hospital with a bladder infection. [ 1 ] He had exploratory surgery on his abdomen in June 2013, [ 2 ] and he underwent hip replacement surgery in April 2018.
May 5, 2021 · The Duke of Edinburgh’s official cause of death has been revealed on his death certificate. The official document was obtained by The Telegraph and revealed that the 99-year-old Duke died...
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- The Creation of Post-Mortem Photos
- Beyond Victorian Death Photos: Masks, Mourning, and Memento Mori
- Fake Victorian Post-Mortem Photos
In the first half of the 19th century, photography was a new and exciting medium. So the masses wanted to capture life's biggest momentson film. Sadly, one of the most common moments captured was death. Due to the high mortality rates, most people couldn't expect to live past their 40s. And when disease spread, infants and children were especially ...
Photographing dead people may seem like a ghastly task. But in the 19th century, deceased subjects were often easier to capture on film than living ones — because they weren't able to move. Due to the slow shutter speed of early cameras, subjects had to remain still to create crisp images. When people visited studios, photographers would sometimes ...
People in the Victorian era mourned deeply after the death of a loved one — and this mourning certainly wasn't limited to photos. It was common for widows to wear black for years after their husbands died. Some even clipped hair from their dead loved ones and preserved the locks in jewelry. As if that wasn't dark enough, Victorians often surrounded...
Today, some Victorian death photos shared online are actually fakes— or they're photographs of the living mistaken for the dead. Take, for example, a commonly shared image of a man reclining in a chair. "The photographer posed a dead person with his arm supporting the head," many captions claim. But the photograph in question is a picture of the au...
Sep 22, 2021 · The official statement from the royal family said Prince Philip "died peacefully". The death certificate, certified by the head of the Royal Medical Household, stated the cause of death...
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Jun 4, 2016 · Photographs of loved ones taken after they died may seem morbid to modern sensibilities. But in Victorian England, they became a way of commemorating the dead and blunting the sharpness of grief.
1 day ago · Phillip Schofield recently appeared on Channel 5's show Cast Away. Former This Morning host Phillip Schofield has announced the death of his mother, after a "heartbreaking weekend". Schofield said ...
Apr 9, 2021 · HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh has died aged 99. The flag at Buckingham Palace was lowered to half-mast and a notice was posted on the gates following the announcement of the duke's...
