What did Prince Phillip mean to you?

Glad you recognised yourself...

Extract from Keir Starmer’s speech today:
Her Majesty once said that “grief is the price we pay for love”. The Duke loved this country. And Britain loved him in return. That’s why we grieve today. But as we remember him, we must also celebrate him. A life lived in strong and vigorous brushstrokes. And we offer up this tribute: To the Duke Edinburgh. For a lifetime of public service – The Gold Award.

* Cherrytree59* I totally agree, I believe the RF are the glue holding us together right now.
I feel so much for our wonderful Queen.

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Buffybee

Some very bitter people on this thread....

Bitter = not bring a sycophant ?

Here’s a war hero btw

Britain's last surviving World War Two Victoria Cross hero turns 100 www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-52704526

Who is being a sycophant?

Do you understand the word?

someone who praises powerful or rich people in a way that is not sincere, usually in order to get some advantage from them

The adjective sycophantic is perfect for describing someone who uses flattery to get what they want. ... Someone who's sycophantic goes overboard with compliments, usually to gain some kind of advantage.

I don't think anyone on this thread is expecting any sort of advantage from the RF.

Some people like the RF, some people don't. Most seem to be somewhere in the middle.

I think bitter was quite apt actually

Buffybee

Glad you recognised yourself...

Getting personal are we again? Clearly a team sport

I’m enormously bitter - that huge amounts of taxpayer’s money goes to propping up an independently wealthy family of layabouts. And I’m including all of them in that.

I’ve found the news summaries of his life fascinating. It covers the 20th century, our own history reflected through his life experience.
I hadn’t realised the extent of his tough experiences he had as a child, how his childhood shaped the man he became.
He’s one of the last time of my parents generation, from whom we learned so much.

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I am glad that two of my GC are doing the DoE awards

I do think that his death marks the beginning of the end of an era through which most of us cut our teeth in our formative years. The Queens death will end it.

I am very unclear how the U.K. will see itself in the world once this era ends.

He was the husband of our monarch, a huge support to her.
A father, grandfather, great grandfather.
Strong sense of duty to his adopted country.
A long life, well lived.

I spoke to a good friend who is DH of a large comp in a challenging area.
She believes D of E has changed many lives.

The Queen works tirelessly.

I have no idea how much revenue they bring into the UK but I guess they are carbon neutral in economic terms.

A rude man with Racist views.

His sense of humour! He supported the Queen to the last. They were blessed in having each other so very long and she’ll miss him terribly. RIP

I was going to say nothing but I can respect him as someone who managed to fill his acres of free time with ‘good works’. He wasn’t needed. Just an ornament. He had to do something with his time. Tough call for him and I guess he managed it ok. Bit of a racist tho but then lots of his generation are. My mum says stuff that makes my toes curl sometimes. She’s the same age.

What did Prince Phillip mean to me? Nothing really! I’ve never really thought about him, but to the Queen I would imagine he was everything, her rock as she called him, and the same to the rest of the RF, He had a long life shame didn’t make it to 100

Yes, I loved his sense of humour - as did most people actually.

I have no idea how much revenue they bring into the UK but I guess they are carbon neutral in economic terms.

Time for my "how much the RF are worth to the UK" post again.

The RF are worth £1.8bn to the UK economy and bring in £550 million in tourism revenue annually. Sounds a lot.

But incoming tourism was worth £22.5bn to the UK in 2016, and UK exports were worth £543bn. So the contribution of the RF is trivial.

At a cost of approx. £350 million p.a., the ROI of the RF is about 5 to 1. About the same as Manchester United before Covid, interestingly.

My parents were older than Philip, and they were not racists. It isn’t inevitable.

My impression of him was that he was very good-looking and probably a total philistine, though it turned out that he was less so than I thought. He did read books. I felt he treated Charles with great insensitivity. It was cruel to send him to Gordonstoun, a school that suited the extrovert man of action, but was quite wrong for someone like Charles, who is more complex.

A much maligned man that I liked from afar and I’m sorry he’s passed but pleased it was peaceful.

I’d also like to add that on The Jeremy Vine Show this morning it was announced the Duke had completed over 20,000 solo engagements during his working life as the Queen’s husband and that’s in addition to engagements undertaken with The Queen. That gives lie to a certain republican that often posts on here what an idle bunch the Royals are!

Nothing!
But I'm sad for his loss to the family who loved him. The same as I am for any family who has lost a loved one this last year or so.
God rest their souls.

Is it fair to criticise Phillip for sending Charles to Gordonstoun
in 1958 ? Yes it was the wrong school for a sensitive 14 year old
but Phillip , who had a tough upbringing and no parents from a young age to love him .
and were people so aware of sensitivity in boys in the 1950’s ?

Surely Prince Charles went to Gordonstoun in 1962?

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Yes Merlot I did fail maths ! he was 14 when he went to Gordonstoun , born 1948