12th August 2013

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, presented medals at the Royal Society of Edinburgh.   The Duke presented medals to Professor Sir John Cadogan, the former head of research at BP; Professor Mike Ferguson, Dean of Research in Life Sciences at Dundee University, and Sir Ian Wood, the former chairman of the Aberdeen-based oil and gas services company Wood Group.

The Royal Medals are awarded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's 230-year-old academy of science and letters, in recognition of outstanding achievement, having been instituted by the Society's patron, the Queen, to mark the Millennium.

Afterwards Prince Philip travelled to Balmoral.

Nearly a year and a half after falling into a coma after a skiing accident in Austria, Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau has died aged 44.  In July, Prince Friso was transferred from a London hospital back to Huis ten Bosch, a royal palace in The Hague but had since suffered further complications. Prince Friso was struck by an avalanche in early 2012 whilst skiing in Austria; he was buried until rescuers finally managed to pull him out unconscious 20 minutes later. He was resuscitated at the scene and flown to hospital. He remained in a coma for many months.