RIP Phil the Greek
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Very sadly, but perhaps inevitably after recent months: Prince Philip has died aged 99, Buckingham Palace announces
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@donsteppa said in RIP 2021:
Very sadly, but perhaps inevitably after recent months: Prince Philip has died aged 99, Buckingham Palace announces
RIP Phil the Greek 😥
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@donsteppa said in RIP 2021:
Very sadly, but perhaps inevitably after recent months: Prince Philip has died aged 99, Buckingham Palace announces
Handled a pretty-much impossible job really well I thought. Apart from his politically-incorrect comments, always seemed dignified and full of humour.
And one of the great love stories.
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The full BBC Obituary: Obituary: HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Including in part:
Seafaring tradition
Hahn moved to Scotland where he founded Gordonstoun school, to which the prince transferred after only two terms in Germany.
Gordonstoun's Spartan regime, with its emphasis on self-reliance, was the ideal environment for a teenage boy who, separated from his parents, felt very much on his own.
With war looming, Prince Philip decided on a military career. He wanted to join the Royal Air Force but his mother's family had a seafaring tradition and he became a cadet at the Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth.While there he was delegated to escort the two young princesses, Elizabeth and Margaret, while King George VI and Queen Elizabeth toured the college.
According to witnesses, Prince Philip showed off a great deal. But the meeting made a deep impression on the 13-year-old Princess Elizabeth.
Philip quickly proved himself an outstanding prospect, passing out at the top of his class in January 1940 and seeing military action for the first time in the Indian Ocean.
He transferred to the battleship HMS Valiant in the Mediterranean Fleet, where he was mentioned in dispatches for his part in the Battle of Cape Matapan in 1941.
As the officer in charge of the ship's searchlights, he played a crucial role in this decisive night action.
"I found another ship and it lit up the middle part of it, whereupon it practically disappeared instantly under a salvo of 15in shells at point-blank range," he told BBC Radio 4 in 2014.
By October 1942, he was one of the youngest first lieutenants in the Royal Navy, serving on board the destroyer HMS Wallace.
Engagement
Throughout this period, he and the young Princess Elizabeth had been exchanging letters, and he was invited to stay with the Royal Family on a number of occasions.
It was after one of these visits, over Christmas 1943, that Elizabeth placed a photograph of Philip, in naval uniform, on her dressing table.
Their relationship developed in peacetime, although there was opposition to it from some courtiers - one of whom described Prince Philip as "rough and ill-mannered".
But the young princess was very much in love and, in the summer of 1946, her suitor asked the King for his daughter's hand in marriage.
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@tim said in RIP Phil the Greek:
Tall order to take over from the actual literal Nazi Edward VIII. That complete piece of shit would have gladly killed any Englishman to make more room for hunting or something.
Also, Lord Mountbatten was a notorious pedophile.
I'm having lunch watching an episode of One Foot in the Grave - the one where Victor gets high on cocaine and drives a lawnmower thru a shag-pile carpet while singing "Hey, Mr Tambourine Man"
Can't quite figure out which is more surreal - the TV or your post... sense Phil would have enjoyed it though
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From the NY Times:
He was said to have so little patience with horse racing that he had his top hat fitted with a radio so that he could listen to cricket matches when he escorted the queen to her favorite spectator sport.Top bloke.
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RIP to an absolutely real one. His entire family were actual Nazis and pedos, but he had a preternatural ability to crack great offensive jokes.
Just imagine Prince Phillip on Opie and Anthony, or riffing hard with Shane Gillis and Nick Mullen on Cum Town. Cracking hard on Italians ...
chef's kiss
We have lost so many ways to use the word "wog" tonight.
Rest In Peace, sweet prince.
