RIP Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip, dies aged 99
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RIP Phil.
Who wouldn't want to check out of that family?
Who wouldn't want to check out of that family?
The Queen has lost her husband, her best friend, her confidante and her cousin (on both sides).
RIP Phil, you daft racist.
RIP Phil, you daft racist.
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There are plenty of people from that and the next generation that didn’t share a bed. Some of the next generation even chose to have separate houses. It is not an indicator of love or the lack of itIt's me, chaps wrote: ↑Fri Apr 09, 2021 7:20 pmShe loved him so much they didn't sleep together.
At least the wildlife he purported to 'protect' can rest a little easier.
RIP - I liked him
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Well said Vi. He was a man of his times and, as a Brit, someone I have "known" all my life. Easy to knock him but imho a good egg. RIP.
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He's quite an amazing character and served with distinction in the Royal Navy during WWII and later. His mother's life history is fascinating. Her daughters married Nazis but she was far from being one, she sheltered a Jewish family when Athen's Jews were being annihilated :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_ ... BattenbergIn January 1949, the princess founded a nursing order of Greek Orthodox nuns, the Christian Sisterhood of Martha and Mary, modelled after the convent that her aunt, the martyr Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna, had founded in Russia in 1909. She trained on the Greek island of Tinos, established a home for the order in a hamlet north of Athens, and undertook two tours of the United States in 1950 and 1952 in an effort to raise funds. Her mother was baffled by her actions, "What can you say of a nun who smokes and plays canasta?", she said.
Despite suggestions of senility in later life, Princess Andrew remained lucid but physically frail. She died at Buckingham Palace on 5 December 1969. She left no possessions, having given everything away. Initially her remains were placed in the Royal Crypt in St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle on 10 December 1969, but before she died she had expressed her wish to be buried at the Convent of Saint Mary Magdalene in Gethsemane on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem (near her aunt Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna, a Russian Orthodox saint). When her daughter, Princess George of Hanover, complained that it would be too far away for them to visit her grave, Princess Andrew jested, "Nonsense, there's a perfectly good bus service!" Her wish was realized on 3 August 1988 when her remains were transferred to her final resting place in a crypt below the church.
On 31 October 1994, Princess Andrew's two surviving children, the Duke of Edinburgh and Princess George of Hanover, went to Yad Vashem (the Holocaust Memorial) in Jerusalem to witness a ceremony honouring her as "Righteous Among the Nations" for having hidden the Cohens in her house in Athens during the Second World War. Prince Philip said of his mother's sheltering of persecuted Jews, "I suspect that it never occurred to her that her action was in any way special. She was a person with a deep religious faith, and she would have considered it to be a perfectly natural human reaction to fellow beings in distress." In 2010, the Princess was posthumously named a Hero of the Holocaust by the British Government.
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
He looks like he been dead for years, not sure why such an outpouring of grief for some rich old racist who lived to be practically 100, I mean 100 isn't even that impressive many reptiles live 150 years plus....
I am surprised this thread hasn't awoken K440's chief flag shaggers Playboy and Slavedog for some royal grief wankathon.
I am surprised this thread hasn't awoken K440's chief flag shaggers Playboy and Slavedog for some royal grief wankathon.
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I'm no fan of the royals but he seemed like an interesting character. All his sisters married German aristocrats who were later Nazis, yet he spent many years fighting the Nazis.
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
I liked the old chap
Speaking to the General Dental Council, 1960: “Dontopedalogy is the science of opening your mouth and putting your foot in it, a science which I have practised for a good many years
Speaking at the Scottish Women’s Institute, 1961: “British women can’t cook.”
When shown art during a trip to Ethiopia, 1965: “It looks like the kind of thing my daughter would bring back from her school art lessons.”
Speaking on American TV about the Windsor family’s finances, 1969: “We go into the red next year … I shall probably have to give up polo.”
During a visit to Canada, 1969: “I declare this thing open, whatever it is.”
When asked about visiting the Soviet Union, 1969: “I would like to go to Russia very much – although the bastards murdered half my family.”
To Paraguayan dictator Alfredo Stroessner: “It’s a pleasant change to be in a country that isn’t ruled by its people.”
Speaking during an official trip to Canada, 1976: “We don’t come here for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves.”
Accepting a gift from a woman in Kenya, 1984: “You ARE a woman, aren’t you?”
To a British student during visit to China, 1986: “If you stay here much longer, you will go home with slitty eyes.”
When asked his thoughts on Beijing during a tour of China, 1986: “Ghastly.”
During a visit to the city of Xian in China, to a group of British exchange students, 1986: “If you stay here much longer you’ll all be slitty-eyed.”
RELATED: Prince Philip ‘rudest human ever’
At a World Wildlife Fund meeting, 1986: “If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.”
When asked if he would like to touch a koala while in Sydney in 1992: “Oh no, I might catch some ghastly disease.”
While chatting to a fashion writer Serena French, 1993: “You’re not wearing mink knickers, are you?”
Chatting to a British man during a visit to Budapest, 1993: “You can’t have been here that long – you haven’t got a pot belly.”
To a group of businessmen in the Cayman Islands, 1994: “Aren’t most of you descended from pirates?”
While speaking to female solicitor: “I thought it was against the law these days for a woman to solicit.”
Shouting at the Queen, from the deck of the Britannia, while she spoke to their hosts on the quay during an official visit to Belize, 1994: “Yak, yak, yak; come on get a move on.”
Of daughter, Princess Anne: “If it doesn’t fart or eat hay, she isn’t
In a conversation with a Scottish driving instructor, 1995: “How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?”
Addressing German chancellor Helmut Kohl during a speech, 1997: “Reichskanzler.” (Which was actually Hitler’s title …)
While speaking to a British student who had hiked in PNG, 1998: “You managed not to get eaten then?”
While inspecting a factory in Edinburgh and spying an old-fashioned fuse box, 1999: “It looks as if it was put in by an Indian.”
After presented with a hamper of goods form the American south by the American Ambassador in London, 1999: “Where’s the Southern Comfort?”
When he asked politician Lord Taylor of Warwick, whose mum and dad are Jamaican, 1999: “And what exotic part of the world do you come from?” To which Lord Warwick replied: “Birmingham.”
During a visit to Cardiff, to children from the British Deaf Association, who were standing near a Caribbean steel band, 1999: “If you’re near that music it’s no wonder you’re deaf”.
Speaking to a group of female politicians at a Buckingham Palace party in 2000 whose name tags had ‘Ms’ on them: “Ah, so this is feminist corner then.”
Spying two robots bumping into each other at a science museum, 2000: “They’re not mating are they?”
When offered some fish by Rick Stein, 2000: “No, I would probably end up spitting it out over everybody.”
To a guest in Berlin after the Queen had just opened the new $32 million British Embassy in Berlin, 2000: “It’s a vast waste of space.”
RELATED: Royal family member Philip ‘clashed’ with
Reflecting on his role as a working royal: “Any bloody fool can lay a wreath at the thingamy.”
In a curiously prescient aside, 2000: “People think there’s a rigid class system here, but Dukes have even been known to marry chorus girls. Some have even married Americans.”
To Elton John, who lived near Windsor, 2001: “Oh, it’s you that owns that ghastly car is it? We often see it when driving to Windsor Castle.”
Speaking to Aboriginal elder William Brin in Queensland, 2002: “Do you still throw spears at each other?”
Address a 14-year-old member of a Bangladeshi youth group, 2002: “So who’s on drugs here? … HE looks as if he’s on drugs.”
To the Aircraft Research Association, 2002: “If you travel as much as we do you appreciate the improvements in aircraft design of less noise and more comfort – provided you don’t travel in something called economy class, which sounds ghastly.”
Speaking to a 13-year-old named Andrew Adams who wanted to go into space: “You could do with losing a little bit of weight.”
While chatting to a young fashion designer at Buckingham Palace, 2009: “Well, you didn’t design your beard too well, did you? You really must try better with your beard.”
To a young female police officer wearing a bulletproof vest, 2002: “You look like a suicide bomber.”
Speaking to Susan Edwards, who is blind and wheelchair-bound and has a guide dog, 2002: “Do you know they’re now producing eating dogs for the anorexics?”
To businessman Atul Patel at a Palace reception for British Indians, 2009: “There’s a lot of your family in tonight.”
After being told that then-President Barack Obama had just met with the British, Chinese and Russian leaders: “Can you tell the difference between them?”
Speaking to the General Dental Council, 1960: “Dontopedalogy is the science of opening your mouth and putting your foot in it, a science which I have practised for a good many years
Speaking at the Scottish Women’s Institute, 1961: “British women can’t cook.”
When shown art during a trip to Ethiopia, 1965: “It looks like the kind of thing my daughter would bring back from her school art lessons.”
Speaking on American TV about the Windsor family’s finances, 1969: “We go into the red next year … I shall probably have to give up polo.”
During a visit to Canada, 1969: “I declare this thing open, whatever it is.”
When asked about visiting the Soviet Union, 1969: “I would like to go to Russia very much – although the bastards murdered half my family.”
To Paraguayan dictator Alfredo Stroessner: “It’s a pleasant change to be in a country that isn’t ruled by its people.”
Speaking during an official trip to Canada, 1976: “We don’t come here for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves.”
Accepting a gift from a woman in Kenya, 1984: “You ARE a woman, aren’t you?”
To a British student during visit to China, 1986: “If you stay here much longer, you will go home with slitty eyes.”
When asked his thoughts on Beijing during a tour of China, 1986: “Ghastly.”
During a visit to the city of Xian in China, to a group of British exchange students, 1986: “If you stay here much longer you’ll all be slitty-eyed.”
RELATED: Prince Philip ‘rudest human ever’
At a World Wildlife Fund meeting, 1986: “If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.”
When asked if he would like to touch a koala while in Sydney in 1992: “Oh no, I might catch some ghastly disease.”
While chatting to a fashion writer Serena French, 1993: “You’re not wearing mink knickers, are you?”
Chatting to a British man during a visit to Budapest, 1993: “You can’t have been here that long – you haven’t got a pot belly.”
To a group of businessmen in the Cayman Islands, 1994: “Aren’t most of you descended from pirates?”
While speaking to female solicitor: “I thought it was against the law these days for a woman to solicit.”
Shouting at the Queen, from the deck of the Britannia, while she spoke to their hosts on the quay during an official visit to Belize, 1994: “Yak, yak, yak; come on get a move on.”
Of daughter, Princess Anne: “If it doesn’t fart or eat hay, she isn’t
In a conversation with a Scottish driving instructor, 1995: “How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?”
Addressing German chancellor Helmut Kohl during a speech, 1997: “Reichskanzler.” (Which was actually Hitler’s title …)
While speaking to a British student who had hiked in PNG, 1998: “You managed not to get eaten then?”
While inspecting a factory in Edinburgh and spying an old-fashioned fuse box, 1999: “It looks as if it was put in by an Indian.”
After presented with a hamper of goods form the American south by the American Ambassador in London, 1999: “Where’s the Southern Comfort?”
When he asked politician Lord Taylor of Warwick, whose mum and dad are Jamaican, 1999: “And what exotic part of the world do you come from?” To which Lord Warwick replied: “Birmingham.”
During a visit to Cardiff, to children from the British Deaf Association, who were standing near a Caribbean steel band, 1999: “If you’re near that music it’s no wonder you’re deaf”.
Speaking to a group of female politicians at a Buckingham Palace party in 2000 whose name tags had ‘Ms’ on them: “Ah, so this is feminist corner then.”
Spying two robots bumping into each other at a science museum, 2000: “They’re not mating are they?”
When offered some fish by Rick Stein, 2000: “No, I would probably end up spitting it out over everybody.”
To a guest in Berlin after the Queen had just opened the new $32 million British Embassy in Berlin, 2000: “It’s a vast waste of space.”
RELATED: Royal family member Philip ‘clashed’ with
Reflecting on his role as a working royal: “Any bloody fool can lay a wreath at the thingamy.”
In a curiously prescient aside, 2000: “People think there’s a rigid class system here, but Dukes have even been known to marry chorus girls. Some have even married Americans.”
To Elton John, who lived near Windsor, 2001: “Oh, it’s you that owns that ghastly car is it? We often see it when driving to Windsor Castle.”
Speaking to Aboriginal elder William Brin in Queensland, 2002: “Do you still throw spears at each other?”
Address a 14-year-old member of a Bangladeshi youth group, 2002: “So who’s on drugs here? … HE looks as if he’s on drugs.”
To the Aircraft Research Association, 2002: “If you travel as much as we do you appreciate the improvements in aircraft design of less noise and more comfort – provided you don’t travel in something called economy class, which sounds ghastly.”
Speaking to a 13-year-old named Andrew Adams who wanted to go into space: “You could do with losing a little bit of weight.”
While chatting to a young fashion designer at Buckingham Palace, 2009: “Well, you didn’t design your beard too well, did you? You really must try better with your beard.”
To a young female police officer wearing a bulletproof vest, 2002: “You look like a suicide bomber.”
Speaking to Susan Edwards, who is blind and wheelchair-bound and has a guide dog, 2002: “Do you know they’re now producing eating dogs for the anorexics?”
To businessman Atul Patel at a Palace reception for British Indians, 2009: “There’s a lot of your family in tonight.”
After being told that then-President Barack Obama had just met with the British, Chinese and Russian leaders: “Can you tell the difference between them?”
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