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 Queen Elizabeth   remembered her late husband,   Prince Philip , in Christmas Day remarks released Saturday. "Although it's a time of great happiness and good cheer for many, Christmas can be hard for those who have lost loved ones," the queen said in the prerecorded address. "This year, especially, I understand why." "But for me, in the months since the death of my beloved Philip, I have drawn great comfort from the warmth and affection of the many tributes to his life and work – from around the country, the Commonwealth and the world," she continued. Philip died in April at the age of 99, after retiring from royal duties in 2017. He and Elizabeth had been married since 1947. "His sense of service, intellectual curiosity and capacity to squeeze fun out of any situation – were all irrepressible," the queen remembered Saturday. "That mischievous, enquiring twinkle was as bright at the end as when I first set eyes on him."   The quee...

  JOHANNESBURG -- 1931 - Oct. 7 - Desmond Mpilo Tutu is born in Klerksdorp, near Johannesburg. 1947 – Contracts tuberculosis, as he recuperates he is visited by Trevor Huddleston, a British Anglican pastor working in South Africa. 1955 – Marries Nomalizo Leah Shenxane and begins teaching at a secondary school in Johannesburg. 1961 - Is ordained as a minister in the Anglican church, after quitting teaching in disgust at South Africa's apartheid government's inferior education for Blacks. 1962 – Studies theology at King’s College London. 1966 – Returns to South Africa to teach at a seminary in the Eastern Cape. 1975 – Becomes the Anglican church's first Black dean of Johannesburg. 1976 - Serves as Bishop of Lesotho and voices criticism of apartheid in South Africa. 1978 - Becomes general-secretary of the South African Council of Churches and achieves global prominence as a leading opponent of apartheid, supports economic sanctions to achieve majority rule in South Africa. 198...