RIP Duke of Edinburgh

[UlstermanAbroad]

Does that include the horses?

Yes, Anne has to be there.

 

[Alan Surrey]

RIP always liked his no nonsense approach had a good inning's though.

I had the joy of meeting him 40 years ago when the Queen came without any announcement to open the library I was working in. There were flowers everywhere for the royal visit. He broke away from the royal party, walked over and spoke to a group of us. I remember him saying "I bet these flowers were not here yesterday"
"No sir, and they repainted the place for you too."
Made a lasting impression, as you see.
Full marks to HRH Prince Phillip who knew what was what and said so.
Sad loss, but not unexpected.

 

[UlstermanAbroad]

I'm not a Royalist. Nor am I a Republican. I lie somewhere in between.
I'm saddened by some of what I've read here. Prince Philip has earned our respect, not least because of his unstinting public service, lasting from 1939 when he entered Dartmouth Naval College, until he stood down from public life, aged ninety-six. The country owes Philip a debt, for many reasons. Here I'll touch upon just one.
He served in Royal Navy warships from 1940 until the end of hostilities in Japan. His wartime service was spent mainly in the Mediterranean. I'm no historian. But I do know that the Mediterranean was a killing ground as vicious as any other during World War II. He didn't have to serve on the front line in any theatre of the conflict. He chose to serve as close as he could to his own country of Greece and that meant serving in the Med for four and a half gruelling years.
Men who served with him held him in high regard. Both officers and ratings. He was Mentioned in Despatches. An honour earned by a significant act of bravery and / or self sacrifice. Our Armed Forces don't hand such things out like many others do, just for turning up. Relatively few men returned from the Mediterranean with their good humour intact. Philip did.
With the surrender of the Axis countries, Philip would've been entitled to take life easy. But that wasn't in his nature. How many of us will achieve so much in our lives, if we'd had the formative years that Philip had.
Show me another country that has been better served and for longer. I can't think of one.

 

[lozcb]

I'm not a Royalist. Nor am I a Republican. I lie somewhere in between.
I'm saddened by some of what I've read here. Prince Philip has earned our respect, not least because of his unstinting public service, lasting from 1939 when he entered Dartmouth Naval College, until he stood down from public life, aged ninety-six. The country owes Philip a debt, for many reasons. Here I'll touch upon just one.
He served in Royal Navy warships from 1940 until the end of hostilities in Japan. His wartime service was spent mainly in the Mediterranean. I'm no historian. But I do know that the Mediterranean was a killing ground as vicious as any other during World War II. He didn't have to serve on the front line in any theatre of the conflict. He chose to serve as close as he could to his own country of Greece and that meant serving in the Med for four and a half gruelling years.
Men who served with him held him in high regard. Both officers and ratings. He was Mentioned in Despatches. An honour earned by a significant act of bravery and / or self sacrifice. Our Armed Forces don't hand such things out like many others do, just for turning up. Relatively few men returned from the Mediterranean with their good humour intact. Philip did.
With the surrender of the Axis countries, Philip would've been entitled to take life easy. But that wasn't in his nature. How many of us will achieve so much in our lives, if we'd had the formative years that Philip had.
Show me another country that has been better served and for longer. I can't think of one.

I appreciate with what you say and agree whole heartedly, just that when encompassed by everything silverspooned to get mentioned in dispatches doesnt surprise me in the least ...........whoever wrote the citation was surely going to get rewarded in some shape or form , my credit to the man is more that he knew what he was taking on when he married into HRH , and embraced it and ran with it ...............whersas Markel threw her toys out the pram the minute 3rd of 4th fidel was mentioned ...............respect where its due ...........................which is why Markel in time will get her cumuppence , next few days with Harry's discomfort should be interesting to say the least

 

[lifes2short]

I'm not a Royalist. Nor am I a Republican. I lie somewhere in between.
I'm saddened by some of what I've read here. Prince Philip has earned our respect, not least because of his unstinting public service, lasting from 1939 when he entered Dartmouth Naval College, until he stood down from public life, aged ninety-six. The country owes Philip a debt, for many reasons. Here I'll touch upon just one.
He served in Royal Navy warships from 1940 until the end of hostilities in Japan. His wartime service was spent mainly in the Mediterranean. I'm no historian. But I do know that the Mediterranean was a killing ground as vicious as any other during World War II. He didn't have to serve on the front line in any theatre of the conflict. He chose to serve as close as he could to his own country of Greece and that meant serving in the Med for four and a half gruelling years.
Men who served with him held him in high regard. Both officers and ratings. He was Mentioned in Despatches. An honour earned by a significant act of bravery and / or self sacrifice. Our Armed Forces don't hand such things out like many others do, just for turning up. Relatively few men returned from the Mediterranean with their good humour intact. Philip did.
With the surrender of the Axis countries, Philip would've been entitled to take life easy. But that wasn't in his nature. How many of us will achieve so much in our lives, if we'd had the formative years that Philip had.
Show me another country that has been better served and for longer. I can't think of one.

very well said and deserves some true respect

 

[lozcb]

Shame

 

[Scaf]

So that complete to$$er Prince Andrew wants to dress up as an Admiral for his fathers funeral, what a self centred little man he is.
If I were Queenie I would tell him to wear a plain black suit and sit at the back.

 

[Guy]

Oh Dear what is it with you lot and the French

History!

 

[lozcb]

So that complete to$$er Prince Andrew wants to dress up as an Admiral for his fathers funeral, what a self centred little man he is.
If I were Queenie I would tell him to wear a plain black suit and sit at the back.

I think he ought to be made to join Harry on th naughty step

 

[Simon1963]

I don’t think Harry’s a bad lad. I can understand him wanting to get away and do his own thing. The Oprah interview was a car crash mostly, I suspect, orchestrated by his Mrs, that I think he will regret. Hopefully while he’s back at the family home they can sort things out. Andrew on the other hand is a nonce who should keep out of the way and his gob shut. I think while the Queen is around he’s reasonably safe but when she’s gone the authorities will have him and rightly so.

 

[lifes2short]

sad day today and just cant believe the sad old ***** that complained about BBC coverage , just gobsmacking, this top bloke gave up his career to serve the country and has given so much, if they didn't want to watch BBC then just fook off to one of the 150 plus freeview channels, simples

"BBC responds after 110,000 complaints over Prince Philip coverage"

 

[bigbob]

sad day today and just cant believe the sad old * that complained about BBC coverage , just gobsmacking, this top bloke gave up his career to serve the country and has given so much, if they didn't want to watch BBC then just fook off to one of the 150 plus freeview channels, simples

"BBC responds after 110,000 complaints over Prince Philip coverage"

People like to complain - especially after Covid - and the BBC has to have a system that makes complaining easy. The fact that a few people missed some dodgy home improvement and antiques shows is hardly important. The UK has lost a true ambassador.

 

[Scaf]

I for one will take part in the minutes silence and raise a glass to the Duke this afternoon, I don’t think I will be watching it on TV though.

 

[CatmanV2]

People like to complain - especially after Covid - and the BBC has to have a system that makes complaining easy. The fact that a few people missed some dodgy home improvement and antiques shows is hardly important. The UK has lost a true ambassador.

While intellectually I agree, and certainly didn't miss the programming (nor do I agree with the complaints page) was it really necessary to show exactly the same programs on BBC1, 2 and News and close down BBC4? I don't see any additional respect being show by doing that. Maybe just me

C

 

[Andyk]

I agree with C.....I understand the above but I also get the other side as the coverage on the day went through to 6 in the morning. I watched the same footage at 10 at night as I did when I put the news in at 6 the next morning. Problem with the coverage was that it was repeated again and again and again and again with the same stories and the same picture and films. You don’t need to see it 20 times in the same day on 4 different channels. Mixing it up and putting up different ootage may have been better.

 

[nigw]

Mixed feelings about the old bugger , Kudos to him fo being his own man an all that , loved every single one of his ( sorry i'll read that again moments ) but he had a blessed life and never really did a stoke of work in his life , and then when it was apparent that he was being adulterous to our Liz , my view totally changed about him ...............but his life however kushy cant of been easy playing second fiddle all the time RIP Pip

I think the Royals do work - at the Queen and Prince Philip level anyway. Constantly travelling, having to be polite to everyone, always on show, losing day after day to boring and contrived events, massively restricted in terms of what you do, what you wear, and where you go, and doing this well into your 90s... basically until you die - no retirement to speak of. You honestly couldn’t pay me enough to spend my life doing that.

Prince Andrew on the other hand is a f*cking joke. Sponging, misappropriating, trading on the family name, begging for attention - even on the back of his father’s death (and of course taking advantage of underage girls).

 

[safrane]

Personal view I know, but mine is that the Royals are just well paid Civil Servants with a large number of perks.

Yes they work hard, but the remuneration is very good.

 

[jonny]

but the renumeration is very good.

sp: remuneration

 

[safrane]

pesky smart phone screens in the sun... can't read my own writing.

 

[Wack61]

The loss of personal freedom is a high price though , the one thing they do really well is deal with the public, I saw a clip at Diana's flowers outsode the palace where a woman put her hand out and instead of ignoring it the Queen shook it as did Prince Philip , it then started a bit of a chain reaction of hands being offered , they did shake a few, celebrities rarely interact with their fans , unless it's Tom Cruise, you can't get rid of him