Llywydd, diolch yn fawr. A very long life, in any circumstances, brings with it a set of remarkable events witnessed and experiences enjoyed or endured. To have lived such a life at the centre of world events and in a way that made almost every experience of public rather than simply private interest makes it even more remarkable still, and that was the life of the Duke of Edinburgh.

Llywydd, in our own election, 16 and 17-year-olds will vote for the first time; when Prince Philip was born, women in this country had never voted. In the year in which he became 16, Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain were both Prime Ministers. If it sounds like a lifetime ago, it is because it was. And in a way that very few people indeed have to manage, the life that witnessed all those changes had to absorb them all while almost never out of the public eye, always on show, always at the centre of attention, every occasion a special occasion.

We will all have heard the tributes of the last few days and their entirely accurate focus on the theme of public service, but it is worth pausing for a moment to remember the human story that goes alongside the service and the decade after decade in which that service was sustained.