2021 Apr 11 - The Duke of Edinburgh Passes
Royal news this week as Prince Phillip the queen’s husband, passed away at the age of 99 which is a shame because if he’d lived another 2 months then he would have gotten a telegram from the queen.
When it comes to the royal family, I’m pretty ambivalent, they’re certainly better than having President Blair, they make for an interesting national soap opera and if it wasn’t for the royals then what would we name hospitals, railways and especially drinking establishments after. We can’t name all the pubs after coloured lions after all. Trawling through the acres of press coverage, Prince Phillip did lead a fairly interesting life and for everyone moaning about spent more than half a century living a life of idleness, you have to remember that unlike his kids he actually fought and risked his life for those war medals he wore on special occasions. He was at the Battle of Crete and the Invasion of Sicily, as compared to Prince Edward who decided to drop out of the marines and organise It’s a Royal Knockout. Or Prince Harry who seemed to be making himself a career as a soldier until he got confused and wore a German military outfit that time.
There’s a list of quotes and supposed gaffes through him over the years, most of them actually end up painting a pretty good image of someone who was probably quite fun to have a drink with, I quite like his comment that "When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife." and supposedly at the coronation he made a comment about the queen getting another new hat. I also used to occasionally look at the court circular in The Times and be surprised by just how much he and the wife actually got up to, attending charity meeting and spending decades seeing to a never ending stream of new lifeboats, museums, youth centers and so on. If he did dislike Tony Blair as much as they say then you can hardly blame him because all that extra money to upgrade schools and hospitals probably meant he was staring down the barrel of 20 years shaking hands with teaching assistants and hospital cleaners. I wouldn’t want that life, no matter how much swan the wife let me eat.
Now we have a week of mourning and round the clock news coverage and with any luck folks might get the day off work which would be good now that the weather is better than it was. There’s also talk about whether or not Harry and Meghan will attend the funeral, personally speaking I’d not be surprised if Meghan flies over early with a shovel to help dig the grave.
Oh well, the Duke of Deadinburgh, god racist his soul.
When it comes to the royal family, I’m pretty ambivalent, they’re certainly better than having President Blair, they make for an interesting national soap opera and if it wasn’t for the royals then what would we name hospitals, railways and especially drinking establishments after. We can’t name all the pubs after coloured lions after all. Trawling through the acres of press coverage, Prince Phillip did lead a fairly interesting life and for everyone moaning about spent more than half a century living a life of idleness, you have to remember that unlike his kids he actually fought and risked his life for those war medals he wore on special occasions. He was at the Battle of Crete and the Invasion of Sicily, as compared to Prince Edward who decided to drop out of the marines and organise It’s a Royal Knockout. Or Prince Harry who seemed to be making himself a career as a soldier until he got confused and wore a German military outfit that time.
There’s a list of quotes and supposed gaffes through him over the years, most of them actually end up painting a pretty good image of someone who was probably quite fun to have a drink with, I quite like his comment that "When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife." and supposedly at the coronation he made a comment about the queen getting another new hat. I also used to occasionally look at the court circular in The Times and be surprised by just how much he and the wife actually got up to, attending charity meeting and spending decades seeing to a never ending stream of new lifeboats, museums, youth centers and so on. If he did dislike Tony Blair as much as they say then you can hardly blame him because all that extra money to upgrade schools and hospitals probably meant he was staring down the barrel of 20 years shaking hands with teaching assistants and hospital cleaners. I wouldn’t want that life, no matter how much swan the wife let me eat.
Now we have a week of mourning and round the clock news coverage and with any luck folks might get the day off work which would be good now that the weather is better than it was. There’s also talk about whether or not Harry and Meghan will attend the funeral, personally speaking I’d not be surprised if Meghan flies over early with a shovel to help dig the grave.
Oh well, the Duke of Deadinburgh, god racist his soul.
Royal news this week as Prince Phillip the queen’s husband, passed away at the age of 99 which is a shame because if he’d lived another 2 months then he would have gotten a telegram from the queen.
When it comes to the royal family, I’m pretty ambivalent, they’re certainly better than having President Blair, they make for an interesting national soap opera and if it wasn’t for the royals then what would we name hospitals, railways and especially drinking establishments after. We can†......
When it comes to the royal family, I’m pretty ambivalent, they’re certainly better than having President Blair, they make for an interesting national soap opera and if it wasn’t for the royals then what would we name hospitals, railways and especially drinking establishments after. We can†......