Prince Phillip

Daily Mail is now adding he'd also had a fall and been bedbound for a few days.

Yes, must be exhausting having palaces and flats and farms.

Oh hang on a minute, sleeping on the streets must be quite tiring too I suppose.

I have to say that if I had to add to my workload by travelling between two homes twice each week, and transferring between two others 4 times a year I'd be too exhausted for anything much else. Philip has the right idea, he's settled in Wood Farm!

Other marriages don’t cost the taxpayer millions each year, nor do they impinge on others with offensive comments that are shown across the world’s media.

The Queen has had a difficult year so far. I really feel for her. She has been a great Queen. She must be so worried about her husband and all that carry on with Andrew.

Nostradamus predicted we will have a new king in 2020.............

I do hope that Prince Phillip gets through this setback.

How do you know the comments are inaccurate? Are you a Royal?

The comments aren't harsh, they're horrid, and incidentally inaccurate, but don't let the truth get in the way of a spiteful comment.

got to admire the queen never hear her bitch and moan about life and her family unlike some of the other royals,. i hope the duke pulls through

As in all marriages, every couple has 'their own way of carrying on' and it's really not for other people to speculate as to the state of that marriage! The Queen and her husband are no different in this than anyone else. It is, as they say, their business and nothing to do with us!
Personally, I wish Prince Phillip well and hope he makes a speedy recovery and that the RF have a Happy Christmas.

Some of the comments on here seem a bit harsh. Yes, Prince Philip now comes across as a cantankerous, obstinate, privileged old man, but whatever the ins and outs of their long marriage, he has supported the Queen throughout her long reign. I think it was at her Golden Jubilee that she paid tribute to him, saying he had been her strength and support all those years, and that the nation would never know how much, also that he was a man who hated fuss.
When he dies, I have read he wants no big state or royal funeral, sounds like it will be a very private, low key affair.

Spot on, Carly. The deal is....we pay for their upkeep and their bills. They give us nice pictures and something to talk about.

“I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing,” he said confusingly in 1988 when discussing blood sports.

“Do you still throw spears at each other?” he asked Aboriginal leader William Brin at the Aboriginal Cultural Park in Queensland in 2002.

Carly, agree. He isn't a kind person.

I have always liked him.
My theory is his so called gaffs were a way to put people at ease when they met the Queen.

He would have seen all the nervous looking faces and so he got into the habit of cracking jokes to put people at ease.

Of course in these politically correct days his jokes were deemed to be racist

It is not the Queen's constitutional duty to travel to Sandringham on a particular day. This decision to stick to plans is something the Queen and Philip have chosen to do as individuals based on their own personalities. If this had been any other of the royal couples - for example Kate and William - even when they come to the throne, they will have their own ways of handling family sickness. Remember Queen Victoria and how she was for a long time after her husband's death? That was down to who she was as an individual. I don't think our own Queen would have been the same had Philip died young, I think she would have been back on duty straight after the funeral. Even monarchs are individuals and their staff and advisers work with their personalities to make their plans.

I thought it was a planned admission which I guess would mean in this instance that Dr had arranged it albeit at short notice without it being treated as an A & E type. Also read he went to local hospital at Norfolk. Must have been moved to London. Had there been any likelihood of a serious situation developing the Queen would be made well aware.

I expect the food he gets in hospital will be just as good as the meals at Sandringham. He has done better than most ordinary people who were born in the same year, and most are gone now. They suffered a lot of privations during the war and he never did. I doubt there will be many tears when he drops off the perch.

They cannot be compared with other married couples, an
arranged marriage, and from day 1 , duty first.

The queen mother wasn’t sleeping with the king , he died in the night and she was informed of his death.

He has had to walk in her shadow, they both accept this.

They seem to have a very close relationship .

Thank you Carly, for your post. It's nice to read someone saying things as they really are. We have to listen to so much waffle and pretence. None of us know how things really are in other people's lives. It must be very hard to live in the public eye all the time. We all know what nosy neighbours are like, I am sure, and it is the same thing on a wider scale for the Royal family.

CarlyD7 I couldn’t agree more.

From reading memoirs from people who played with the Queen as children, and biographies, it seems the Queen has always been personally a person who likes rules and routine. I don't think we can assume that she'd have had to stick to her plan to travel to Sandringham that day just because she's the Queen. I bet even if she'd been Mrs Fred Bloggs she would have stuck to her plans if Mr Bloggs had been taken to hospital Always assuming that Mr Bloggs was the same type of person as Philip who also doesn't like a fuss made over him and wouldn't complain that she's not there settling him into hospital. Put the two together and you can see why they always "just carry on as usual". I doubt if this would have happened when it's William and Kate in that position.

As to the waffle the palace are coming out with, it kind of doesn't make sense. "Planned"? Yeah like an hour or so before the journey maybe. No one plans days in advance to leave the city your family are just arriving in, just on the day they arrive, in order to spend the runup to xmas and possibly the day itself, in hospital. "Pre-existing"? Well yes of course. No one gets admitted to hospital on the grounds they might get a disease sometime in the future. The palace are masters at empty words that sound as if they are conveying information! However there is a caveat... A VIP like Philip could certainly tweak ones "planned" hospital stay to cover a period when members of the family he doesn't want to deal with are about to arrive. Andrew... and possibly the Queen insisted on inviting Sarah also, to cheer him up... Philip's been in hospital over xmas before, and from what I remember from that time, he didn't mind one little bit!

Bit harsh Carly my husband & I have separate bedrooms but this does not mean we love each other any less. As for the rest of it most families are not perfect and I would not like to live my life constantly in the public eye.
Just redressing the balance a little you understand.

PP is 98 and is doing well. Sounds like the bladder infection he has before. I’m sure the Queen will know all there is to know, any immediate urgency she will be whisked to be with him. At 98 it’s expected he will have ailments.

I'm sorry to speak ill of someone who so clearly is, but I've never read a single thing about Phil the Greek (as my Dad used to call him) which made me think he was a good person. Did he even love Elizabeth when he married her? He was the Queen's first and only boyfriend, and he was pushed into marrying her by his uncle, Lord Mountbatten. Rumours of his infidelity were rife for decades. He bullied Charles, and who knows about the others. Every time he opened his mouth, on public engagements, he put his foot in it (possibly deliberately - passive aggression is not pleasant). They clearly have led very separate lives for decades, and certainly separate bedrooms (as we found out in 1982 when a burglar broke into Buck Palace and ended up sitting on the Queen's bed!) No doubt the Queen will shed a tear when he goes but I would be very surprised if "the nation" did.

He didn’t go by helicopter- he went in a royal car and according to BP walked into hospital himself!