Royals at the rodeo

Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh (seated on a short dais), share a Hudson’s Bay Company point blanket during a royal command performance at the Calgary Stampede in October 1951. Prince Philip, who died at Windsor Castle on April 9, 2021, at the age of ninety-nine, held the title of colonel-in-chief of six units of the Canadian Armed Forces. In 2011, he was named honorary general of the Canadian Army and the Royal Canadian Air Force and honorary admiral of the Royal Canadian Navy. In 2013, he was named a Companion of the Order of Canada and a Commander of the Order of Military Merit. Prince Philip visited Canada more than seventy times. During his 1951 visit, Prince Philip adopted local tradition by donning a white cowboy hat at the Calgary Stampede. On his final visit, a solo trip to Toronto in 2013, he presented a new ceremonial flag to the Royal Canadian Regiment’s Third Battalion, having served as the regiment’s colonel-in-chief since 1953.