The Duke of Edinburgh spent his final days at Windsor Castle with his wife after a 28-night stay in hospital having been admitted in mid-February for an infection and a pre-existing heart condition.
Her Majesty announced her husband's death at midday as the Union Flag was lowered to half-mast outside Buckingham Palace and on public buildings across the UK and Commonwealth.
Back when they knew what their job was and did it.
ReplyDeleteWho did it better:
ReplyDeleteSharon Stone in "Basic Instinct"
Prince Philip at "the Gathering for the Highland Games"?
Ha
DeleteStart the clock on the "tragic" helo accident for MM and Prince Harry...
ReplyDeleteNow Meghan will come out with the tabloid money-maker revelation: "The reason I'm mad at the Royal Family is because the old geyser tried to hit on me".
DeleteI thought the grass looked a lil greener this morning.
ReplyDeleteRIP Prince Philip.
ReplyDeleteI did not even know the queen had a husband. If the entire royal family perished overnight, I still couldn't care less.
ReplyDeleteHe served in the thick of it in the Royal Navy in WW2. His Duke of Edinburgh awards has inspired and helped hundreds of thousands of British young people to achieve their dreams and aided their careers. He was the Head of numerous charities and badgered cash out of even the most tight fisted billionaire. He was blunt and to the point and had a wicked sense of humour. I had the honour of guarding him, HM and the Queen Mother on numerous occasions. He'd send coffee laced with scotch on bitter winter nights. Couldn't refuse it his wife was the CiC of the entire armed forces and he outranked every officer on the base. RIP Sir!
ReplyDeletethe last of Empire and he never apologized for anything
DeleteHis legacy would have been more impressive if he had spoken out to the effect of "royalty is no longer serving the needs of our people so it is time for this to stop".
DeleteIt's easy to be charitable when everyone has to give you money in the first place, or in the case of those billionaires, you have the ability to influence their charitable investments.
One more dessicated lizard in which to to stick a pin.
ReplyDeleteWell damn, another senseless killing from the rona.
ReplyDeletewill Yoko and the putz show up for funeral ?
ReplyDeletewill they fly there on a solar powered private jet from their ginormous enviro mansion?
When does Kissinger get his turn?
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Does this mean Miz Liz is back on the market?
ReplyDeleteLook at the picture of Prince Phillip in the back of the car coming home from the hospital. Tell me he doesn't look like a dollar store version of Tywin Lannister.
ReplyDeleteRIP Prince Philip and condolences to The Queen, a class act if there ever was one.
ReplyDeleteThank you for such a decent comment. People in America don't understand just what the Royal family means to the UK, especially those who lived through WWII. You seldom hear of the Queen coming out with anything that suggests that she is just one more rich, spoiled monarch, like our Nancy Pelosi, upChuck Schumer, or their ilk.
DeleteClass is something that you either have or you don't, it seems. Character always comes out, and the old guard of the Royal family has it, along with William and Kate.
Say what you will, but I dread the day when the Queen passes-she truly is one of a kind and sadly would leave behind scant hope that her decency and fortitude would be continued. Maybe she will outlive that putz of a son of hers and have it go directly to her grandson.
DeleteCompare this guy's career to his idiot treehugger son, Charles. Phillip was the real deal in world war 2, he put his ass on the line and didn't stay back where it was safe. Plus you got to give his grandson credit for going over to Afghanistan, while his brother William stayed home. That all counts for something. PS We had a limey along when running the Grand Canyon in rafts, by mid trip I wanted to stick her head permanently under water because I couldn't take that proper limey accent anymore, me being of Irish descent had nothing to do with it...maybe. The limey accent to me is the equivalent of the Hillary Clinton cackle, I just can't take it.
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