Prince Philip and the British School at Rome
I only encountered the Duke of Edinburgh once. In October 1980 he visited the British School at Rome in his capacity as President of the Royal Commission for the Great Exhibition of 1851. That year, after more than fifty years of support for the British School at Rome, the Commissioners decided to spend its funding on other scholarships. The Prince agreed to visit the School before the decision was finalized. Understandably, the School held out hope that he might change the C
