Llywydd, the last 12 months have seen many families faced with the grief of losing someone they have loved. However it happens, each loss is uniquely felt by those for whom that person will leave a gap in their lives that no-one else can fill. Our thoughts today are with those members of the wider royal family, who have to face that loss in the particularly distressing circumstances caused by the public health emergency.

Llywydd, when I moved into the juniors section of the Model Church in Wales School in Carmarthen, I took part in a competition organised by the World Wildlife Fund. A small number of far bigger boys and girls were to travel to Cardiff—a very distant and important sounding place, I remember—to attend an event led by the fund's UK president, the Duke of Edinburgh. Sixty years later, the sense of the collision of the personal and the historical has been there to see in the reaction of so many of our fellow citizens. It tells us something about the presence of Prince Philip throughout the lifespan of every single Member of this Senedd.