Have I asked the question before? quite apart from the fact that the culture of...

Should "quite apart from the fact that the culture of the
islanders made it difficult for them to accept a female deity" be "quite conforming to the fact that the culture of the
islanders made it difficult for them to accept a female deity"

Because Prince Philip is male and was deified naturally and the Queen female and not deified.

Context:

Robert Buckman's book Can We Be Good without God? quotes
the same admirable retort by a John Frum disciple, this time to a
Canadian journalist some forty years after David Attenborough's
encounter.
The Queen and Prince Philip visited the area in 1974, and the
Prince subsequently became deified in a rerun of a John-Frum-type
cult (once again, note how rapidly the details in religious evolution
can change). The Prince is a handsome man who would have cut an
imposing figure in his white naval uniform and plumed helmet, and
it is perhaps not surprising that he, rather than the Queen, was
elevated in this way, quite apart from the fact that the culture of the
islanders made it difficult for them to accept a female deity.