Prince Phillip has sailed..

[denverd0n]

For God's sake. The man is dead, and all some of you can do is criticize. Pathetic.

[skipmac]

Originally Posted by boatman61

Actually he was Greco/English and came from an impoverished background but I guess it's easier to be an ignorant knocker of someone who worked extremely hard through his life and sacrificed a lot for his adopted country..

His family certainly didn't have the money that the British royal family commands but not sure if I would all his background impoverished at least not based on my standards of poverty.

Regarding jobs, he served honorably in the Royal Navy in WWII where he saw action a number of times as opposed to sitting a desk job. Seems to me to negate the claim quite well that he never had a job.

[dannc]

The only reason Philip had money was he married well.

But to marry well, came at the cost of giving up his navy career, loosing the anonymity of a normal person, being a target of the tabloids, and being the Queen's consort.

He was able to go to school because someone outside his immediate family paid for it, his family was destitute, since his father had been sent into exile, abandoned Philip at an early age, along with his mother, and his mother was in a mental institution. The school he went too did not sound like a great place to be either. His childhood was not good at all.

I always have admired the Queen and thought Phillip was an interesting character. She must be devastated. I think it was after Diane's death when the Queen said something to the effect that we too are family have have our family issues. I think people forget that sometimes, if they ever thought it in the first place.

Later,
Dan

[Kelkara]

Greek, British ... I thought he was supposed to be the reincarnated spirit of Vanuatu, where he became their god.


Some of you south Pacific sailors may even have met his worshipers.

[boatman61]

Originally Posted by Woodland Hills

I believe the correct term is “relatively impoverished” since there was enough money to send him to the most elite of boarding schools. And to maintain a residence in the south of France....

I also do not consider traveling the UK and the world on the government’s dime to stand around in a suit cutting ribbons to be extremely hard work. You might do so, but millions of folks who go to bed hungry and exhausted from their labors might not.

Then again compared to Andy Capp, another famous Briton subsisting on the taxpayers money, he did do a lot of volunteer work. And sometimes he was nearly as funny!

However he did excel in the one job he did have: providing a male heir and a spare. After accomplishing that, what was his function for the people of the UK? Ceremonial ribbon cutter and greeter of foreign politicians? Brand ambassador for the defunct British imperial project?

Could you let us know all about the sacrifices he made too? What exactly did he give up to marry the Queen of England?

He did not marry the Queen of England.. he married the daughter of a king.
He gave up a blossoming career in the Royal Navy after performing with courage and initiative during the Second World War which depressed him greatly for a while.. till he found his feet and devoted his energies to good works and charities including the Duke of Edinburgh Award for young people, advancing work in muscular dystrophy in the '60's, the WWF and many other institutions.. sadly you have stolen his self depreciating joke about being a Ceremonial Ribbon Cutter for an insult.
As for his relative poverty.. In 1922 his family moved first to St Cloud, near Paris, where they borrowed a house. A wealthy relative paid the children's school fees, for there was very little money.
By the age of 10 his father had left, his mother was in a sanatorium, his sisters were married off and he was passed around various relatives and boarding schools in the UK and Germany till he finally ended up in Gordonstoun, a newly opened school by a German Jew called Kurt Hann who had had to flee Germany for criticism of the Nazi's.. he was then 14yrs old.. (envy his life yet.???)
He left aged 18 and joined the Royal Navy.. I know that's a job because I did that as well.
As for your comparing him to Andy Capp.. I remember that character well, being a blue collar worker who used to buy the Mirror on the way to work every morning.. don't recall his creator living of tax payers money, more what the Mirror paid for the skits..

[sailorboy1]

Originally Posted by denverd0n

For God's sake. The man is dead, and all some of you can do is criticize. Pathetic.

[LittleWing77]

Originally Posted by boatman61

... he married the daughter of a king and gave up a blossoming career in the Royal Navy after performing with courage and initiative during the Second World War - which depressed him greatly for a while... 'til he found his feet and devoted his energies to good works and charities including the Duke of Edinburgh Award for young people, advancing work in muscular dystrophy in the '60's, the WWF and many other institutions..

+1

Hey Boatie!

I have a Prince Phillip story for you.

We were sailing in the Solent back in the day when the Family still had Britannia and used a lovely little classic wooden launch for ferrying Family members back-and-forth to the ship, anchored out in deeper water.

One day we were sitting on a mooring in our sailboat as Britannia's launch went by fairly close to us, displaying the Royal Ensign (which I believe used to indicate that a family member was aboard...?)

Anyway, there's me, the cheeky/pesky Canadian who called out in my fake plummy accent "Hullo from the Colonies!" Well, turns out His Royal Highness Prince Phillip was the only family member aboard, immediately poked his head out of the cabin, located the source of the cheeky remark (me), gave me a wide grin and cheery wave in return.

We were all so gobsmacked we almost fell over in surprise.

I was mortified.

SO glad he was such a good sport that I now have this lovely story to share with you in fond memory.

Blessings and Fair Winds Phillip and Quiet Sympathies to Good Queen Bess,
LittleWing77

[boatman61]

Originally Posted by LittleWing77

+1

Hey Boatie!

I have a Prince Phillip story for you.

We were sailing in the Solent back in the day when the Family still had Britannia and used a lovely little classic wooden launch for ferrying Family members back-and-forth to the ship, anchored out in deeper water.

One day we were sitting on a mooring in our sailboat as Britannia's launch went by fairly close to us, displaying the Royal Ensign (which I believe used to indicate that a family member was aboard...?)

Anyway, there's me, the cheeky/pesky Canadian who called out in my fake plummy accent "Hullo from the Colonies!" Well, turns out His Royal Highness Prince Phillip was the only family member aboard, immediately poked his head out of the cabin, located the source of the cheeky remark (me), gave me a wide grin and cheery wave in return.

We were all so gobsmacked we almost fell over in surprise.

I was mortified.

SO glad he was such a good sport that I now have this lovely story to share with you in fond memory.

Blessings and Fair Winds Phillip and Quiet Sympathies to Good Queen Bess,
LittleWing77

Always the good sport..
Thanks for the story lass..

[laird]

Originally Posted by MicHughV

I simply don't get this " royalty" thing....seriously....all these titles....prince....etc...????

All royalty believe that they are descended from Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene
Weither we believe it or not is a different discussion

[El Pinguino]

Originally Posted by GordMay

At times over the years, the Prince’s cringe-inducing comments had a naive charm. Other times though, they were less "endearing dad-joke", and more "incredibly racist grandpa”:

"I declare this thing open, whatever it is." on a visit to Canada in 1969.

“We don’t come here for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves," he told journalists in Canada in 1976.

"If it has four legs and it is not a chair, if it has two wings and flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it." when he addressed a World Wildlife Fund meeting in 1986.

"Aren't most of you descended from pirates?" he enquired to an islander while in the Cayman Islands in 1994.

"Yak, yak, yak; come on get a move on." he shouted to the Queen who was chatting, from the deck of Britannia, in Belize in 1994.

"How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?" he asked a Scottish driving instructor in 1995.

"You managed not to get eaten then?" the Prince asked a British student who had been trekking in Papua New Guinea, in 1998.

"Do you still throw spears at each other?" he asked a group of Indigenous Australians in 2002, while on a visit to Australia with the Queen.

RIP Prince Philip.

99 years, 8 quoteable quotes.

Struth, when I'm out on day release I can better that for racially and sexually - usually combined - inappropriate comments before lunch.

RIP Phil

[boatman61]

Originally Posted by laird

All royalty believe that they are descended from Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene
Weither we believe it or not is a different discussion

Only Catholic royalty..

[laird]

The man was at heart a sailor , when he was informed that the then king had died he realised that he would have to give up his job as RN officer ,his first command was HMS Magpie , he refused to invite any of his sister's to his wedding as they had aligned themselves with Adolph Hitler

On a formal visit to a NATO exercise in Norway , he passed the formal tent for his lunch and went and sat with our marines ,eating compo rations out of a mess tin and having his lunch with the lads , he was in his heart a Naval Officer ,a sailor by passion

[JPA Cate]

There was the following obituary in the New York Times this morning. I found it interesting, but did find a little water coming out of my eyes. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/09/o...gtype=Homepage

@ Gord May: The evil men do lives after them,
The good is oft interred with their bones.

RIP Phillip. May you be remembered most for the good you did.

[chrisr]

death comes to us all and he had a fair innings...but the world was a better place for his being here and hard to find a better role model




cheers,

[MicHughV]

the man had "class"...by the spadeful....no denying that...royalty or not....he was a classy gent...he had a job to do...and he did it....and he did it well...