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Beautiful memorial service for Prince Philip

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snowberryZ Tue 29-Mar-22 17:29:17

Just that really.
I thought the Queen looked amazing, considering the time she's had. She looked so dignified as well.
I sort of agree with PA helping her in. After all, he is her son and it's a memorial service for his father.
Also it's a way of showing certain absent members that 'this is what loyalty' in a family looks like.

The children were beautifully behaved and doesn't Princess Charlotte have a look of the Queen about her?shock

It does seem a bit sad that Harry wasnt there.
If this was any ordinary family I suppose we would be saying he has gone No Contact with Prince Charles and that he and the Queen are estrangedparents/grandparents!
Seems a bit cruel to do that to an old lady, in what could be one of her last public engagements.
But that is my opinion.
I'm sure the PH fanclub will be along in a minute to disagree. hmm

Other than that, it was a lovely service.

Parsley3 Sat 02-Apr-22 10:02:08

I must admit that I initially read the OP as an invitation to pour more vitriol on Harry. Why mention him otherwise?

Lucca Sat 02-Apr-22 09:58:54

All this was in the OP……

*It does seem a bit sad that Harry wasnt there.
If this was any ordinary family I suppose we would be saying he has gone No Contact with Prince Charles and that he and the Queen are estrangedparents/grandparents!
Seems a bit cruel to do that to an old lady, in what could be one of her last public engagements.
But that is my opinion.
I'm sure the PH fanclub will be along in a minute to disagree*

Lucca Sat 02-Apr-22 09:55:57

Mollygo

Jaberwok, read volver@8:55. It excuses everything.

Actually, read the the OP.

volver Sat 02-Apr-22 09:51:53

And yet, the OP was largely about trashing the queen's grandson and poking fun at the people who take his part.

Take the plank from your own eye.

Mollygo Sat 02-Apr-22 09:51:37

Jaberwok, read volver@8:55. It excuses everything.

Jaberwok Sat 02-Apr-22 09:48:20

No wonder people don't bother to comment on GN anymore. This thread is about the memorial service for Prince Philip, but as usual has turned into a trash the RF thread. Can't certain people start a thread devoted to Prince Andrew and his misdemeanors and leave those of us who enjoyed the memorial service to comment accordingly in peace?

Mollygo Sat 02-Apr-22 09:46:34

Volver
www.thecrownestate.co.uk/.

volver Sat 02-Apr-22 09:41:56

I hope you haven't spent too much time looking that up Anniebach.

You must be exhausted.

Anniebach Sat 02-Apr-22 09:39:58

There are 440 properties to rent in the crown estate this month, there is a letting agent , not Buck house

Mollygo Sat 02-Apr-22 09:07:30

Anniebach

grany this month the Queen’s 96th birthday , save your energy for that day , surely you are nearing exhaustion

????
Thanks Anniebach.

Anniebach Sat 02-Apr-22 09:04:30

grany this month the Queen’s 96th birthday , save your energy for that day , surely you are nearing exhaustion

Grany Sat 02-Apr-22 09:02:03

Prince Andrew facing calls to explain £1m payments linked to high court fraud case
Duke of York is named in ruling on dispute between a Turkish woman and businessman

volver Sat 02-Apr-22 08:55:15

lemsip

*Beautiful Memorial Service for PrincePhillip* is the OP by snowberryZ on mar 29th.
already running to 9 pages......several of the usual horrible people same 'ole same ole' who just can't help themselves!

to answer the OP. Yes it was I enjoyed the service.

The OP consisted of about 50% complaining about Harry, how he'd broken an old lady's heart and how we can expect the PH fan club along any moment.

Same ole same ole, right enough.

If you want to have a thread about nice hats and we'll behaved children, go ahead. If people bring nastiness into the first post of a thread, nobody gets to complain about people speaking their minds later on.

Mollygo Sat 02-Apr-22 08:51:11

Grany, what does that have to do with a memorial service for someone’s husband? Do you, whatever your feelings about the HM, begrudge that?

lemsip Sat 02-Apr-22 08:49:27

Beautiful Memorial Service for PrincePhillip is the OP by snowberryZ on mar 29th.
already running to 9 pages......several of the usual horrible people same 'ole same ole' who just can't help themselves!

to answer the OP. Yes it was I enjoyed the service.

Grany Sat 02-Apr-22 08:41:35

Turkish ‘fraudster’ who gave money to Prince Andrew is living in apartment owned by the Queen
Selman Turk, who is embroiled in an alleged £40m fraud, lives in prestigious Crown Estate property close to Buckingham Palace

Bear in mind…we only have become aware of Prince Andrew getting £750000 due to a court case.

There is absolutely no accountability or transparency around the Windsor family, which is why there are serious allegations of criminality hanging over Charles & Andrew

Apartment not owned by queen owned by Crown Estate which is public property.

Mollygo Sat 02-Apr-22 08:34:43

Whitewavemark2

She was probably crying because she had just found out that not only was her father involved in sex trafficking, but now her parents have been involved in a fraud.

That’s a nasty comment on this particular thread.

Gilly3 Sat 02-Apr-22 08:27:11

Maybe hormones and stuff. She only had a baby 6 months ago.

Pantglas2 Sat 02-Apr-22 08:14:14

Probably true Anniebach

how lovely it must feel to be one of those people who’ve never wept over a family member’s misdeeds - I certainly wasn’t blessed with perfect relations or maybe I’m less judgmental!

Anniebach Sat 02-Apr-22 08:03:35

Or she loved her grandfather , loves her grandmother and her
parents,

Whitewavemark2 Sat 02-Apr-22 07:55:44

She was probably crying because she had just found out that not only was her father involved in sex trafficking, but now her parents have been involved in a fraud.

Naturally Windsor knows nothing about it, and in any case has paid back the money fraudulently obtained.

Calendargirl Sat 02-Apr-22 07:22:22

Just looked at a clip of the memorial service, showing Princess Beatrice in tears as the Queen took her seat at the start of the service.

Despite what anyone thinks about the rights and wrongs of Andrew escorting his aged mother, my heart went out to her.

She must have felt that her dear grandmother will not be at many more occasions such as this, plus thinking about her grandfather, and she was visibly upset. She held her service sheet in front of her face until she could compose herself and begin to sing.

PECS Fri 01-Apr-22 21:44:32

My DH is a similar age to PC. DH works most days ..some days he works from home writing reports but he meets different people, makes decisions, offers encouragement & advice...and makes all his own arrangements & drives himself to appointments, puts petrol in the car in himself, picks up a sandwich,loads the washing machine, goes to the tip, ferries the DGC to & from clubs etc. , picks up a bit of shopping, jet washes the patio, puts his own toothpaste on the brush, dresses himself, irons his own clothes.......

Callistemon21 Fri 01-Apr-22 20:50:07

Well, it's more than I'm doing workwise but I am a bit older than Charles so I'm allowed!

How about others on here?
Or is posting on Gransnet counted as work now?

volver Fri 01-Apr-22 18:51:28

Here you go. Prince Charles' office told us. Surely they'd know? ?

www.republic.org.uk/hard_working_royals

I over estimated. I was too generous ??