WITH A BIRTHDAY LUNCH AT WINDSOR CASTLE THE QUEEN AND THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH DELIGHT IN BEING TOGETHER AS THE PRINCE ENTERS HIS 100TH YEAR

‘As each looked at the challenge ahead they wanted to be together’

For the past 12 weeks, they have enjoyed lunch together every day, spending more time in each other’s company than they have for months.

And as the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh sit down to eat on 10 June, they will quietly mark another personal milestone as Prince Philip enters his 100th year.

There will be no big gathering of family and friends, but the husband and wife of more than 72 years will delight in speaking to their loved ones via the video calls that they, like so many of us, now rely on.

“Given the panorama of experience they share, their interest in their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, I’m sure talking to them on the phone on video calls is a pleasure they share,” Robert Lacey, author of the biographies Monarch and Majesty , tells HELLO! .

“The Duke has always been the gadget man and he