The Prince Philip dies

[newcastle]

How sad.

By far the longest living consort of a British monarch.....and he was the oldest living direct descendant of Queen Victoria, a position which Queen Elizabeth II now assumes.

He was known for his “controversial” remarks....and for modernising many aspects of the monarchy

R.I.P.

[HEPZIBAH]

It was to be expected, but still sad.
Let's hope the family can put aside their differences and pull together to support the queen in her time of grief.

He could be a controversial man, but he has always been a great support to his wife and queen.

[crewmeal]

Very sad indeed especially that he would have been 100 in June. He's been such a support the Queen for over 70 years.

It will be interesting to see if Harry will attend his funeral.

[HEPZIBAH]

It will be interesting to see if Harry will attend his funeral.

The funeral is going to have to be a very different one to the one that will have been planned originally ( and no doubt tweaked over the years).
It will be interesting to see how it is handled.

[newcastle]

Very sad indeed especially that he would have been 100 in June. He's been such a support the Queen for over 70 years.

It will be interesting to see if Harry will attend his funeral.

Of course he will.

His wife’s pregnancy will give her an excuse not to.

[hatusu]

It will be interesting to see if Harry will attend his funeral.

I think Harry will have hastened his demise...............I wouldnt think he'll be welcomed with open arms.

[carrie]

certainly not her.

[carrie]

Lets also not forget Andrews contribution to the sum of the families happiness.

[hatusu]

This tribute to Prince Philip from my favourite cartoonist Mac. Enjoy.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... hilip.html

[newcastle]

The title of Duke of Edinburgh automatically passes to prince Charles but, when he accedes to the throne the title will , once again, merge with the crown. It’s widely thought that Charles will then create his youngest brother, HRH The Prince Edward, currently Earl of Wessex, as Duke of Edinburgh.

Will this make him the Duke of Earl?

[Who2]

'Just a thought'...
I note that the 'Red Tops are now wondering whether, Prince Charles is up to the job of running the Firm.

In my book, he has served the longest apprenticeship for the job than any other royal.
I also reckon he could easily be the best King that this, 'Sceptered-Isle will ever have had.

But I have fears Her Majesty might not have, to long a life expectancy due to her 73 years of marriage to the Prince.
As 'all returns to the source of it's arising'.

This is often born out when one partner dies the other follows soon after, Queen Victoria being the exception.
It is highly unlikely that The Queen will abdicate in favor of Charles as her dedication to duty is far to strong.
Long Live The Queen and Long may She Reign..

Ps: I also suspect that their longevity is often due to their acceptance of alternative holistic medicine.
Pss: I'm now off soon to support and sit outside my mates' bar in the cold...

[hatusu]

Many astrologers believe that the signs are that Charles will never be king and that William will be the next in line on the throne.

[newcastle]

Many astrologers believe that the signs are that Charles will never be king and that William will be the next in line on the throne.

That really surprises me.

I don’t believe in astrology and any success in its predictions is down to chance. In this respects, they are betting heavily against the odds.

The likelihood is that Charles will outlive his mother. He is fit and healthy at 72 and she is approaching 95. The only scenario in which he wouldn’t succeed are his death (or perhaps serious and permanent incapacity) before the Queen dies. She’s made it perfectly clear that she would never abdicate and, in the event of her incapacity, a Regency would result.

Charles has never indicated any desire to forego being King....however short his reign might be.

[hatusu]

Many years ago, a Reiki practioner that I met accidentally at a fundraising event, told me that one day I would go to live in Egypt. I thought she was a raving loony ..................

[crewmeal]

In my view Edward is not worthy of the title The Duke of Edinburgh. He was a Military failure having given up the Royal Marines after completing only one third of the twelve month course. He then went into theatre production which didn't do well either. However he excelled in It's a Knockout.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2002/ ... oadcasting

Says it all!!!!

[Who2]

A very famous Israeli wheelchair bound, bright ginger haired, attractive, famous, 45ish soothsayer, astrologer, seer in Jerusalem once said to me in Hebrew.........
"I would marry the woman with me and we would have 4 children" ...........
and this with my then girlfriend Canni, who was head of Ben Gurion airport security. Useful girlfriend when flying.

So, it never happened else I'd have remembered. I reckoned then it was some Israeli ingrained idea to out populate
the Palestinians.

Ha! 'I knew I had a pic of her, this is us somewhere Jesus walked in Jerusalem c1982, or so they say.
They say a lot them Israeli's, a right tricky bunch of buggers..

[newcastle]

Many years ago, a Reiki practioner that I met accidentally at a fundraising event, told me that one day I would go to live in Egypt. I thought she was a raving loony ..................

They all are....

[newcastle]

In my view Edward is not worthy of the title The Duke of Edinburgh. He was a Military failure having given up the Royal Marines after completing only one third of the twelve month course. He then went into theatre production which didn't do well either. However he excelled in It's a Knockout.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2002/ ... oadcasting

Says it all!!!!

You might have a point if royal titles were given for achievements of some kind.

But, as you know, they’re not. They are usually dished out on marriage.

Apparently Edward declined the usual dukedom as he fancied the Wessex name....a character In his favourite film “Shakespeare in Love” . I kid you not!

There wasn’t a Wessex dukedom in the royal bag .....so Earl of Wessex it was.

As Edward is now chairman of the trustees of the Duke of Edinburgh International Award , I suppose it’s reasonable to give him his father’s dukedom. He might have flunked the Marines but he’s the proud recipient of the DoE Gold Award.

As I said ,this is unlikely to happen in the Queen’s lifetime.

[crewmeal]

This was taken from The National Library of Israel and I quote:

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"In this photograph from October 1994, Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh (1921-2021), can be seen planting a maple sapling in the Righteous Among the Nations plot at Yad Vashem, in memory of his mother Princess Alice of Battenburg, who hid a Jewish family in her home during the Nazi occupation of Greece.

Here is an excerpt from Prince Philip's remarks at the ceremony:

"We did not know, and, as far as we know, she never mentioned to anyone, that she had given refuge to the Cohen family at a time when all Jews in Athens were in great danger of being arrested and transported to the concentration camps.

In retrospect, this reticence may seem strange, but I suspect that it never occurred to her that her action was in any way special. She would have considered it to be a perfectly natural human reaction to fellow beings in distress. You must also bear in mind that she had been well aware of the Nazi persecution of the Jews for many years.

Even I, at the age of twelve in the 1930s, had first-hand experience of the antisemitic frenzy that was gripping the members of the National Socialist party in Germany in those days. I had just moved from a private school in England to attend the boarding school at Salem in the south of Germany belonging to one of my brothers-in-law. The founder of the school, Kurt Hahn, had already been driven out of Germany by Nazi persecution and this was well known throughout the school.

It was the custom of the school to appoint a senior boy to look after the new arrivals. I was unaware of it at the time, but it so happened that our 'Helper', as he was called, was of Jewish origin. One night he was over-powered in his bed and had all his hair cut off. You can imagine what an effect this had on us junior boys. Nothing could have given us a clearer indication of the meaning of persecution.

It so happened that I had played cricket for my school in England and I still had my cricket cap with me. I offered it to our Helper and I was pleased to see that he wore it.

It is a small and insignificant incident, but it taught me a very important lesson about man's capacity for inhumanity, and I have never forgotten it."

Prince Philip will be missed."

It's the last paragraph about man's capacity for inhumanity that strikes a chord.

[newcastle]

Prince Philip’s anti-Nazi stance couldn’t be clearer and yet his detractors keep hauling out the photos of him marching with Nazi officers behind the funeral cortège of his sister’s family, killed in a tragic air crash.

All his three sisters married high ranking German princes who were members of the Nazi party.

It didn’t help that Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, kept referring to him as “the Hun”.