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I'm almost certain very few, if any of the other obits went straight in with "Duke of Deadinburgh".

Here's one take on what might have happened to Philip while in hospital:

Frankie Boyle on his New World Order show put forward the argument "We have 12 hours left to abolish the monarchy", in an episode that aired on the evening of their Royal Wedding. When he was asked why we only have 12 hours, Frankie replied that the original motion was "Prince Philip will die on the day of the royal wedding, as a final act of racism", but the producers wouldn't allow it. Despite that they allowed Frankie mentioning that was the original plan into the final recording.

Favourite tweet about the latest regarding Prince Philip:

Gone for Prince Philip, simply because it would be quite the 2020 finale if he goes now, though unlikely given the little time left this year of course.

This means in effect it was Covid that pushed the DL to both match and break the record in the year it's rampaged the globe with the latest 2 hits.

Amazing how he's reported overweight despite having spent decades in prison, makes one wonder how generous the prison catering is.

He was on the 2018 list, missed in 2019 if I checked correctly, clearly a big miss not bringing him back this time. RIP

I do think this year is like 2016, if not bigger for celebrity deaths, on and off this year's list. If it wasn't for Covid overshadowing everything I reckon more would be talking about 2020 in this way.

I'm not playing this game, but this person on Twitter thinks it 155 after having to search specifically, I can't find where he found it though:

Sticking with Pierre Cardin

Pierre Cardin

Just seen Prince Charles get it on the BBC live feed, presumably a full article to follow.

Sticking with Arap Moi

Following suit with Ginger Baker