Jubilee!

Am ducking anagram

jo4
You say you are jingle or jangle. You could be jingle-jangle, which is a compliment by the the way.In the world my son lives, jingle -jangle = jewellery!
As an expression of something really good.
Good post jess, and we are not being rude, we are having fun.

Shall I change?

I might get locked out. But I haven't yet.

nellie - on your head be it!

jingjangjo

That would be a good name nellie. jingjangjo

Somehow it looks........... almost tuneful. [thoughtful]

I would say let GNHQ decide who is being rude.

But that would be a laugh in itself.

Thanks for clearing that up jing,jang,jo

I'm not johanna!!! I'm jingle or I'm jangle. I don't effing well know who I am anymore!

But johanna I aint!

That was a bit of an odd question Bags. It was well documented at the time that she was devastated. And you know quite well what I mean by that word.

Actually I think the whole of the Royal family was devastated. Well, they would be. Didn't he do a lot of the organsing of the coronation? I might have got that wrong.

Yes ...Philip petitioned the then government (cabinet0 for the right for his children to have his family's name. It was refused.
However ...in recent years it has been allowed for minor royals to be called Mountbatten-Windsor ...which is the name used by Prince Edward's children.

And yes JessM I agree with your comments on the damage he did in India.

Totally confused I know that jing is jo4 but are you johanna as well I am a confused nellie. With nothing to add to thread

Oh good another argument about Mountbatten. No need to be rude to each other though!
Came home from India leaving rivers of blood in his wake, and possibly put out at no longer being vice-king.
Introduced Phillip to impressionable teenage princess - slightly queasy making correspondence follows between older military man and teenage princess with a crush... Now why would that happen do we think? Today that would be viewed as inappropriate in the extreme.
Mountbatten heavily implicated in plotting to bring down the labour government as part of proposed right wing coup.
Shortly after Thatcher comes into power Mountbatten assassinated.
I am not a consipiracy theorist normally but rather than blame the Irish or the IRA even - why not British secret service. IRA heavily infiltrated at the time so easy enough to muddy the waters.
I don't think Thatcher wanted anyone else thinking that they might run the country!

It's been well documented that the Queen's parents were concerned about the influence Louis Mountbatten might have on his nephew, Prince Phillip. Mountbatten was ambitious, vain and self-serving but as we all know, Princess Elizabeth's determination to marry the man she loved won the day. When she became Queen she was strongly advised not to change the name of the house of Windsor to Mountbatten which infuriated Phillip and no doubt, Earl Mountbatten as well.
Prince Charles became close to 'Uncle Dickie' in his teens. He referred to him as his honorary grandfather. There is no doubt that the royals were very fond of Lord Louis and must have been deeply shocked when he was killed but he was always regarded as having an eye on the main chance and the Queen Mother was always wary of his motives particulary in connection with her favourite grandson.

Bags

That bloody elephant left a pile of shit though! I suppose it's good manure.

bags

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

Yes.

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?

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.

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.

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!

Anyway, devastated means ruined. She wasn't.

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

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?