Prince Phillip leaves hospital

Yes Lucca I certainly know the difference between asking / seeking help and contributing to threads be they controversial
or not

It’s lovely news to hear that the DoE is home from hospital this afternoon. Apparently he walked unaided to a waiting car. Hopefully he will recuperate now this Spring and be able to look forward to a relaxing summer with his family.

Your comment shocked me Anniebach. I’m glad you’re still with us. We care. x

Actually for a 99 year old I think he looks pretty good considering he has just had a month in hospital.

If there had been no pictures of him everyone would be speculating about why that was. The RF cannot win whatever they do.

Hope he and the Queen can have some nice quiet time together and forget all the shennanigans that have been going on.

So much nastiness. I know I posted that he didn’t look well but it was concern not nastiness.
Truly this forum can be very unpleasant. I am one that rarely posts.

I usually ignore the 'royalty' posts - but, as it's raining again, thought I'd read it through. Simply hilarious - you really are a funny lot!

People take themselves, and the royals, oh, so seriously, don't they? Then get bitchy (or catty) with each other.

Even those of us with little interest do know that Phillip usually lives at Sandringham, retired, while the Queen's at BP, still working.

Yes, we know he has a lady friend too - so what? Nobody's offended are they?

jacqrose

Fanny I haven't been on GN for very long but I am truly amazed at how some people here have such a blind allegiance to the RF. Phillip met Romsey while carriage riding and this has been commented on greatly in RF friendly newspapers over the years. Don't see why your comment offends on here.

I don't think it does really, it just appeals to the perpetually offended.

Welcome to GN by the way.

Lady Mountbatten was first introduced to the RF through her relationship with Norton Knatchbull grandson of Earl Mountbatten.P.Ps uncle. She married Norton in 1979 and they became close family friends with the Queen and Prince Phillip particularly after the death from kidney cancer of Leonora, the 5 year old daughter of the then Knatchbulls. There has always been speculation about Penny and P.P, especially after the breakdown of the Knatchbull.(Mountbatten) marriage. Who knows? she is also a close friend/confident of the Queen, so I think we need to be careful about assuming a personal relationship with P.P

Jaberwok

Lady Mountbatten was first introduced to the RF through her relationship with Norton Knatchbull grandson of Earl Mountbatten.P.Ps uncle. She married Norton in 1979 and they became close family friends with the Queen and Prince Phillip particularly after the death from kidney cancer of Leonora, the 5 year old daughter of the then Knatchbulls. There has always been speculation about Penny and P.P, especially after the breakdown of the Knatchbull.(Mountbatten) marriage. Who knows? she is also a close friend/confident of the Queen, so I think we need to be careful about assuming a personal relationship with P.P

Am I the only one who really doesn’t give a fig about this? Even if they were all models of decorum, I’d still think the concept of the monarchy was rubbish ?

Hetty58 I'm not - and this probably will offend even more people - I had no idea they lived separately as even though I post bits and pieces I'm not that au fait, but I sure as hell hope the Queen has had a few of her own 'comforts' over the intervening years!

Or maybe she's like many of us when we get older and prefers the corgis and a nice cuppa.

Either way, good on Phillip for getting home.

Anniebach I think some of those kind posters who reached out to you when you were desperate may still be around, it's just that they don't post very much now.

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Annie, there is one here who would reach out to you. I remember your kindness to me.

I send best wishes to the Duke if Edinburgh and hope he is happy to be at home to recover.

Even those of us with little interest do know that Phillip usually lives at Sandringham, retired, while the Queen's at BP, still working.
I thought she was living at Windsor now with Philip?

Although separate residences sounds like a jolly good idea, I might think about that.

OK, I might as well chip in ...

When we visited Sandringham the guide told us the Queen's favourite home is a farmhouse on the estate where she can be near horses. She will go down to Buckingham Palace for a garden party then nip home straight after. I seem to remember the Queen once said as a girl she wanted to be a farmer's wife and live in the country (presumably surrounded by her beloved dogs and horses). I think Philip has a cottage there.

Yes, she did say that. I'm sure she would have preferred a quiet country life.
Who would want to live in leaky old Buckingham Palace? It's just the office with a few flats required when working from there, all in need of updating.

Certainly not suitable for a President but apparently good enough for the RF.

They have such super rhododendrons at Sandringham

With great respect SW, if you don't give a fig and dislike the monarchy anyway, why did you comment on the first place? I was just dispelling the myth that PP met Penny, Lady Mountbatten, through carriage driving. This partnership came much later on after they'd known each other for years and her.ex husband all his life.

NellG

No SW you're just the only one who feels the need to constantly badger everyone else because they are interested.

Pretty nasty comment and pretty unnecessary.

And again you speak for everyone on the thread - did I miss the meeting where you were elected spokeswoman of all posters?

I saw the pictures of D.O.E leaving hospital and thought how
tired and elderly he is now looking. Later in the day his car was seen being driven into Windsor Castle where himself and the Queen have been staying since the beginning of lockdown.

I too found it distasteful for posters to be commenting on his visits from his lady friend. Is it really right to speculate on his private life now he is in his old age.

Anniebach so glad you reached out and found the help you were seeking.

My son ‘knows people who know people’. The Queen and Philip haven’t shared a house for years except during the pandemic when it wouldn’t be fair in the staff. The fact she didn’t visit him once in 28 days says it all.

Jaberwok

With great respect SW, if you don't give a fig and dislike the monarchy anyway, why did you comment on the first place? I was just dispelling the myth that PP met Penny, Lady Mountbatten, through carriage driving. This partnership came much later on after they'd known each other for years and her.ex husband all his life.

Why should I not comment? I really don’t get this telling people not to post. I’m now being criticised for not wanting to gossip about a poorly old man who should not have been photographed leaving hospital and certainly shouldn’t be being gossiped about like some of you are even if the excuse was putting the record straight. You really couldn’t make it up could you ( except on GN royalty threads people so often do ?)

Interesting....the assumption that someone is "offended" when they stick up for the privacy of a public figure. Like "offended" is the only thing that is available as a response.

When the actual word you should be using is "shocked" that people that are generally pro-monarchy seem to think its OK to talk about rumours and hearsay about a person they have never met because of the belief that everyone knows anyway. Its disrespectful, distasteful and deserving of criticism.

Right, on you go. Hard hat is on.

We probably all know people who know people but most know when a bit of tittle tattle is appropriate and when it isn’t.
Wishing an old man well as he leaves hospital after 28 days is probably not the most appropriate time.

From the BBC

"Prince Philip left through a side entrance of the hospital in a wheelchair and was helped into the rear passenger seat of a waiting car."

From The Times

"Hospital staff set up a white folding screen next to a BMW at the rear of King Edward VII’s Hospital in Marylebone, central London, to shield Prince Philip, 99, from view as he left."

Whatever I feel or anyone else feels about the Royal family, the media should not have published, let alone taken a photograph of him.