What did Prince Phillip mean to you?

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!

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

A rude man with Racist views.

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.

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 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.

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

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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.

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.

Buffybee

Glad you recognised yourself...

Getting personal are we again? Clearly a team sport

suziewoozie

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

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

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.

Glad you recognised yourself...

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

Some very bitter people on this thread....

I often wonder what great things the people who are so quick to criticise or pour scorn have achieved in their lives??

Prnce Phillip has been on my radar as I have only known one monarch and he was her husband.

I was aware of some of his World War 2 service and that he had been mentioned in dispatches.
I am aware of the Duke of Edinburgh Awards scheme which I believe has helped many young people to test themselves and achieve.
He was head of several charities.

What he means to me?
He was part of our British stability and continuity

His demise seems to have caused the first crack in the continuity of what most us as Brits have always known and grown up with .

When the Queen Elizabeth eventually dies, I feel he sands of time will shift.
A new era?

MayBee70

I can’t get over the fact that Johnson, in Parliament today, said that Prince Phillip described the Russians as bastards. I don’t think it’s a word I’ve ever heard used in parliament before and didn’t look good for the Duke, Johnson or our relationship with Russia. Methinks it’s a combination of two people one deceased and one not that didn’t/don’t understand tact and diplomacy. Having said that I found it insulting to the late Duke that it was brought up on the world stage.

You can always rely on a Johnson. ?

Buffybee

suziewoozie
Yes! He was a war hero who was mentioned in dispatches during the battle of Capa Matapan and was awarded the Greek War Cross.

He was mentioned in dispatches for an act of bravery. I think hero has to mean more than that else we devalue for example our VCs. There’s no need to overage the pudding is there? My FIL was mentioned in dispatches and I guess there’s plenty on here who had relatives also mentioned. It’s enough to say that and not over do it.