Following Edward's wedding to Sophie Rhys-Jones in 1999, the Buckingham Palace had decided that he would one day succeed his father as Duke of Edinburgh.
The sentencing of Sattar Sawut and Shirzat Bawudun once again shows that even Uighurs loyal to the Communist Party cannot escape persecution in Xinjiang.
Prince Philip, who died at the age of 99 on Friday, is expected to get a royal ceremonial funeral but in a socially-distanced service in St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle.