Jubilee!

j04 Lord Mountbatten was the Duke of Edinburgh's uncle, not the Queen's.

Feel a bit of a miseryguts as we watched bits on tv-British Gas put a surprise hole in the road and miserable next door neighbour added a skip to the mixture -barely able to squeeze out. The skip isn't needed but won't be removed until Wed. and BG said someone would fill in the hole last Sat.but didn't. We could do with a Royal visit a surprise one would do and perhaps things would move. Wonderful service at Durham Cathedral on Sat for the Jubilee-it should have been televised-two verses of the National Anthem rang the rafters as well as Zadok the Priest . But the Bish should have worn the Coronation Cope. I am in a mood to find fault with everything-Sorry-hope Prince Philip survives the tlc of the NHS

golden your GD will remember that day! what fun!
Prince Edward and wife came to our town's 'sports in the park' event yesterday and GD (also 6) pleased to see a real (but v bald!) prince!

Err... I think they might have shared him absent.

I think she called him Uncle Dickie.

You got any more hairs you want to split?

How lovely for Lily golden little girls and princess's go so well together don't they your little one will remember the day for the rest of her life.

For those of you who would like to see some good pictures of last night's events ...

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2154539/Queens-Diamond-Jubilee-2012-Prince-Charles-pays-moving-tribute-Mummy-spectacular-Buckingham-Palace-concert.html

yes ...I know it is the D.Mail ...but probably the best site I've found for a range of pictures

We're not all anti-DM Jacey!
Thanks for that link.

Thanks for the link, Jacey Great pics.

jings I wasn't exactly splitting hairs. His Serene Highness Prince Louis of Battenburg, aka Earl Mountbatten of Burma, was the Duke of Edinburgh's uncle (brother to Princess Alice of Hesse, Princess Andrew of Greece, the Duke's mother). He rejoiced – somewhat prematurely as it turned out – that the Mountbatten dynasty now ruled the country following the marriage of his nephew and Princess Elizabeth. The Queen may have called him "Uncle Dicky" , following the style set by her husband, but the familial relationship was rather more distant than that. His maternal grandmother was one of Queen Victoria's daughters, while her paternal great grandfather was one of Queen Victoria' sons. Neither the King or Queen was keen on Princess Elizabeth's marriage to the prince of Greece and Mountbatten was certainly a pernicious influence on the Prince of Wales, in many ways guilty of at least some of the ghastliness of his first marriage to Lady Diana Spencer, so how beloved he was is a moot point.

I'm glad my family tree isn't as complicated as that !

Well you obviously have superior knowledge to mine in these matters, absent.

But I am still sure that Lord Louis Mountbatten was a well loved and highly respected member of the royal family. The queen was devastated when the IRA murdered him in the late seventies.

I do not believe that King George and Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, were against the marriage of Elizabeth to Phillip.

Louis Mountbatten was much loved by Prince Charles. I don't think you can attach the blame for Charles's unhappy first marriage to one person alone.

How do you know she was devastated?

Everyone was shocked. Devastated? who knows?

I have read that prince Charles was close to Mountbatten..suggesting he was more of a father figure than Duke of Ed. I am sure the family was shaken by his murder.. as any family would be at losing someone in such a terrible way.
I am not a royalist but do recognise that until we have developed /agreed a viable alternative for a republic state the firm of Windsor is here for the duration and they attract tourists.
What I find irritating is the semi-veneration of the family and the way that some members of the public talk about them as if they knew them. They are an extremely wealthy and priviledged family who carry out 'public duties'. It may be dull for them but it is not exactly tough!

Can only say that I met Lord Louis several times at private functions .
He was a delightful person.
Completely the opposite of the archetypal snob.

With regard to Bags last post, that is an utterly stupid comment.

I don't think so, johanna. How can any of us know if and when the queen feels devastated? She is so controlled. We cannot know for certain what her feelings were. We can only guess. It's possible that she was devastated, but it is not something we can know unless she said so. Did she?

johanna I think that your last remark is rather rude to say the least. Do you have personal knowledge that the Queen was devastated?

Anyway, devastated means ruined. She wasn't.

I had heard that Mountbatten was very personable via a work acquaintance of mine had also met him and said he was a gentleman..reminded her of Wilfred Hyde White in My Fair Lady playing Colonel Pickering!

Thanks, ella, I thought it rude too. I was not saying anything untoward. Happy for you to think differently from me, johanna, but questioning the use of the word devastated is not stupid. It is merely enquiring, wondering, if you prefer.

j04 joanna that is just what I meant in my earlier post..if you are not a personal friend of a royal you cannot know what they are like. We can all read various press and media articles, biogs etc but all those are subjective and individuals will interpret them with their own opinions /values etc.
I'm with bags in saying we cannot know what HMQ feels.

O.K Bags

You , as well as I know , if we were the head of the British Royal Family, would have been devastated if one of our family had been murdered by the Irish.

Is the elephant out of the room now?

Yes.

It was not 'the Irish' it was the the IRA. Let's not upset another load of Gnetters!

bags