English: It is hard to grasp the sheer span of Prince Philip's lifetime. I read that he had done 22,000 engagements, and then heard somewhere else that he had done 300 a year. My first thought was that it must be more than that - how could it otherwise be 22,000? I actually had to calculate and multiply it through by 70 years to understand, gosh, that that's actually about right. It is amazing what he did. In 1921, when he was born, we were the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Lloyd George was Prime Minister. Only some women had then been able to vote. And in that year, Prince Philip's father, Andrew, was one of the generals who failed to succeed at the battle of Sakarya, outside Ankara. And six other generals there had a trial and were immediately executed, whereas, because Prince Philip's father was a prince, he was granted a separate trial. But, to forestall his fate being the same, this country, under Lloyd George, broke off diplomatic relations with Greece and we only restored them after Prince Andrew and his family, including the infant Philip, were able to leave what had previously been the governor's house in Corfu, as Andrew R.T. Davies said, on a British warship. How the fates of history are entwined. I recall meeting the Duke of Edinburgh only once. I think it was at the Diamond Jubilee celebrations for the Queen at Parliament. In the royal gallery, he came past and spoke to me, and found I was the MP, then, for Rochester. He said I must have an awful lot of having to talk about Charles Dickens, but he was reading a new biography of him by Claire Tomalin, and he spoke about it. He said it was more sensitive than any other in understanding Dickens's difficulties in characterising female characters compared to male, and also the sensitivity and understanding of how the very difficult childhood experiences he'd had had moulded him as a man and what he had to do to get through those. I thought about that in what people have said about Prince Philip in recent days. Firstly, just to think how extraordinary it was, actually, to have a genuine and real conversation with so so many people he met; how easy it is to be uncontroversial or anodyne in those conversations and to go through them in form rather than substance, and to actually touch so many people's lives by finding something special to say to different people and to engage his own character, I feel, is extraordinary. Nowadays, we would refer to some of Prince Philip's experiences as adverse childhood experiences, and his grandchildren, Prince William and Harry, have done an awful lot for mental health, and now we are much more willing and supportive for people to talk about their experiences, and the stiff upper lip of previous generations isn't what it was. But I hope that still we will allow choice, and Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, what he did to get through his challenges and what he faced to become the person he did and what he did for our country, is extraordinary, and he did it in a different way than many do perhaps now. And I hope we will support and allow the choice and understanding for all, whatever choices they make. Our thoughts today are with the Queen and with her family, and with the whole nation. May he rest in peace. God save the Queen.
Welsh: Mae'n anodd amgyffred rhychwant lwyr oes y Tywysog Philip. Darllenais ei fod wedi cymryd rhan mewn 22,000 o ddigwyddiadau, ac yna clywais yn rhywle arall fod y ffigur yn 300 y flwyddyn. Tybiais fod yn rhaid ei fod yn fwy na hynny - sut y gallai fod yn 22,000 fel arall? Roedd yn rhaid i mi ei gyfrifo a'i luosi â 70 mlynedd i ddeall bod hynny'n eithaf agos i'w le mewn gwirionedd. Mae'r hyn a wnaeth yn rhyfeddol. Ym 1921, pan gafodd ei eni, Teyrnas Unedig Prydain Fawr ac Iwerddon oeddem ni. Lloyd George oedd y Prif Weinidog. Dim ond rhai menywod oedd wedi cael pleidleisio bryd hynny. Ac yn y flwyddyn honno, roedd tad y Tywysog Philip, Andrew, yn un o'r cadfridogion na lwyddodd i ennill ym mrwydr Sakarya, ger dinas Ankara. A chafodd chwe chadfridog arall eu hanfon i sefyll eu prawf ac fe'u dienyddiwyd ar unwaith, ond oherwydd bod tad y Tywysog Philip yn dywysog, cafodd sefyll ei brawf ar wahân. Ond, er mwyn achub y blaen rhag i'w dynged yntau fod yr un fath, torrodd y wlad hon, o dan Lloyd George, gysylltiadau diplomataidd â Gwlad Groeg, ac adferwyd y cysylltiadau ddim ond ar ôl i'r Tywysog Andrew a'i deulu, gan gynnwys y baban Philip, allu gadael yr hyn a fu gynt yn dŷ'r llywodraethwr yn Corfu, fel y dywedodd Andrew R.T. Davies, ar long ryfel Prydeinig. Mae'n rhyfedd sut y mae tynghedau hanes wedi eu hymblethu. Cofiaf gwrdd â Dug Caeredin unwaith yn unig. Rwy'n credu mai yn nathliadau Jiwbilî Ddiemwnt y Frenhines yn San Steffan oedd hynny. Yn yr oriel frenhinol, daeth heibio a siarad â mi, a chanfu mai fi oedd yr AS dros Rochester ar y pryd. Dywedodd ei bod yn debygol fy mod yn gorfod siarad llawer am Charles Dickens, ond roedd ef yn darllen cofiant newydd amdano gan Claire Tomalin, a siaradodd amdano. Dywedodd fod y cofiant yn fwy sensitif nag unrhyw un arall o ran deall anawsterau Dickens wrth bortreadu cymeriadau benywaidd o'i gymharu â chymeriadau gwrywaidd, a bod ynddo hefyd sensitifrwydd a dealltwriaeth ynghylch sut yr oedd profiadau plentyndod anodd iawn wedi dylanwadu arno yn ddyn a'r hyn y bu'n rhaid iddo ei wneud i wrthsefyll y rheini. Meddyliais am hynny wrth wrando ar yr hyn y mae pobl wedi'i ddweud am y Tywysog Philip yn y dyddiau diwethaf. Yn gyntaf, pa mor rhyfeddol ydoedd, mewn gwirionedd, iddo gynnal sgwrs ddiffuant a real gyda chymaint o bobl y cyfarfu â nhw; pa mor hawdd yw bod yn annadleuol neu'n ddiddrwg-ddidda yn y sgyrsiau hynny a mynd drwyddynt gan lynu at ffurf yn hytrach na sylwedd, ac roedd cyffwrdd â bywydau cynifer o bobl drwy ddod o hyd i rywbeth arbennig i'w ddweud wrth wahanol bobl ac i ddangos ei gymeriad ei hun, rwy'n teimlo, yn rhyfeddol. Y dyddiau hyn, byddem yn cyfeirio at rai o brofiadau'r Tywysog Philip fel profiadau niweidiol yn ystod plentyndod, ac mae ei wyrion, y Tywysogion William a Harry, wedi gwneud llawer iawn dros iechyd meddwl, ac erbyn hyn rydym yn llawer mwy parod a chefnogol i bobl siarad am eu profiadau, ac nid yw arferiad y cenedlaethau a fu o ffrwyno teimladau mor amlwg ag yr oedd o'r blaen. Ond rwy'n gobeithio y byddwn yn dal i ganiatáu dewis, ac mae'r Tywysog Philip, Dug Caeredin, a'r hyn a wnaeth i oroesi ei heriau a'r hyn yr oedd yn ei wynebu er mwyn bod y dyn hwnnw a wnaeth cymaint dros ein gwlad, yn rhyfeddol, ac fe'i gwnaeth mewn modd gwahanol o'i gymharu â'r hyn y byddai llawer yn ei wneud nawr efallai. Ac rwy'n gobeithio y byddwn yn cefnogi ac yn caniatáu'r dewis a'r ddealltwriaeth i bawb, pa bynnag ddewisiadau a wnânt. Mae ein meddyliau heddiw gyda'r Frenhines a gyda'i theulu, a gyda'r genedl gyfan. Boed iddo orffwys mewn hedd. Duw gadwo'r Frenhines.