Usual unpleasant comments from Paddyann! No surprise there. HRH actually gave up a promising career in the Royal Navy, having been on ACTIVE service during WW2 despite his sisters marriages, his mother's mental illness, his father's infidelities, (none of which he, surprisingly, couldn't help!!!) and being virtually abandoned by his family as a small boy. He was brought up by maternal relations in a foreign country who no doubt did their duty by this lonely unwanted small boy who was used by the ever ambitious Uncle Dicky!(Earl Mountbattan.) Having your life mapped out for you from a child, and playing second fiddle to your wife in ALL matters can't have been easy, and the desire to run to the hills must have been intense particularly during the early years of that marriage.
He has stood by the Queen for nearly 70 years through good times and bad, and yes, she will be bereft without him, so here's hoping that he makes a speedy recovery to enjoy his retirement, perhaps doing what HE wants to do with duty being put firmly on the back burner - He certainly deserves it.