RIP Duke of Edinburgh

Nayf

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While intellectually I agree, and certainly didn't miss the programming (nor do I agree with the complaints page) was it really necessary to show exactly the same programs on BBC1, 2 and News and close down BBC4? I don't see any additional respect being show by doing that. Maybe just me

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If they didn’t the Daily Mail etc would have crucified them.
 

Scaf

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Not sure exactly where, but my daughter was in a London bar this afternoon and they went for the minutes silence at 3pm, as people arrived they were told and they started reminding people at 2.45pm.
There were scuffles as some idiots did not participate and then the drink started talking.
Some people are so disrespectful.:mad:
 

lifes2short

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was a moving funeral and the wife was welling up, my daughter was at a pub with friends watching the funeral and pub owners did the same thing, everyone stood and paid their respects with the minutes silence
 

Scaf

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And to top it all the Queen wearing a face mask - she should have just paid the fine ;)
But seriously a huge message to the Nation as they abided by the same rules that all grieving families have to abide by.
 

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Very poigniant, the Mrs all alone throughout, a reflection of today's times I really felt for her, maybe she could give a speech to her subjects re her loss, that would put her in touch with people on a personal level, would be a good move for her I reckon. **** the rest of the monarchy :D.
 

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Mixed feelings about the old bugger , Kudos to him fo being his own man an all that , loved every single one of his ( sorry i'll read that again moments ) but he had a blessed life and never really did a stoke of work in his life , and then when it was apparent that he was being adulterous to our Liz , my view totally changed about him ...............but his life however kushy cant of been easy playing second fiddle all the time RIP Pip
I don't think this is a fair assessment at all...
The chap worked into his 90's.
Not sure about 'a blessed life' either.
 

Scaf

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I can’t believe the Queen had to sit by herself, I found that really sad.
She played by the rules 100% setting an example to the nation, sadly my colleagues have witnessed similar throughout lockdown/ social distancing. However she could have had a member of her household with her and I had thought her lady in waiting would have been with her.
Imagine the outcry if they had broken the rules.
Can’t argue that it was sad to see.
 

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This puts it into perspective for me.
Not my words, but the words of a British soldier from Ulster in regard to HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

The litany of abuse and inhumanity I have seen aimed at a man who devoted his life to public service of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth has irked me beyond belief.

He's a racist, you say? At 18-months old, as a young Greek baby of Danish parentage, he was removed from his home and as a refugee was taken to Paris where he was brought up by two alcoholic parents. His mother was sectioned when he was five years old, whilst his father left him to pursue his own love life.

As a young boy he was sent to Germany, then England and finally Scotland for his education, where he was taught by the Jewish refugee, Kurt Hahn. This inspired the young Philip to join the Royal Navy in order to fight Nazism; something his three elder siblings had embraced - all of them married officers of the Third Reich.

A misogynist? In 1952 he renounced all of his own Royal titles and patronage in order to be subservient to the one true love of his life; a woman whom he would be with for 74 years. A man with more royal blood than the woman he married, who chose to give up his name for hers and follow two steps behind her for the remainder of his years. A chap who raised his children whilst his wife worked at at time when that was deemed emasculating.

No compassion? His Uncle, Lord Louis Mountbatten - the fellow who raised him during his teenage years and mentored him beyond, indeed the only 'father figure' he knew - was murdered by the IRA in the Republic of Ireland in 1979. In 2012, he stood and watched as his wife shook hands with the man who masterminded his beloved Uncle's murder - and did so in order to ensure a more peaceful life for the souls of the children of Northern Ireland that they did not suffer the childhood he endured.

He was the patron of 800+ charities, founded the Duke of Edinburgh awards that over 3 million British children have benefited from, and was an architect of the World Wildlife Fund for nature. Abrasive and 'of his time' maybe but by God he was a brilliant, clever, witty man who left an indelible mark on all those he met. He attended over 22,000 public engagements in his working life, all to ensure the embetterment of others.

Requiesce in peace Philip Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg; you truly are one of the finest foreign, refugee imports the country has had the pleasure to home, and one of its greatest Britons though not a drop of her blood ran through your veins.

You leave a wealthy legacy of humanitarinism that those who choose to mock could never equal.
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Silvercat

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His hat, gloves and scarf on the drivers seat of the carriage he used to compete in did it for me :too_sad::too_sad::too_sad::too_sad:
It was the lone piper playing the lament with the music fading away as he played, which really got me. Brought all those memories flooding back of when my Dad died 15 years ago.
 

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Odd reading the papers and the various references to the fact the coffin had been made 3 decades ago. One of my first jobs as an apprentice with the then Royal Funeral Director’s was to inspect and wax the various Royal Coffins...... 15 odd years later as a Senior Manager I had to had them over to a rival firm ( we had been bought out by an American firm and the Lord Chamberlains office were not happy). That particular stock room was always very special.
 

Swedish Paul

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This puts it into perspective for me.
Not my words, but the words of a British soldier from Ulster in regard to HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

The litany of abuse and inhumanity I have seen aimed at a man who devoted his life to public service of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth has irked me beyond belief.

He's a racist, you say? At 18-months old, as a young Greek baby of Danish parentage, he was removed from his home and as a refugee was taken to Paris where he was brought up by two alcoholic parents. His mother was sectioned when he was five years old, whilst his father left him to pursue his own love life.

As a young boy he was sent to Germany, then England and finally Scotland for his education, where he was taught by the Jewish refugee, Kurt Hahn. This inspired the young Philip to join the Royal Navy in order to fight Nazism; something his three elder siblings had embraced - all of them married officers of the Third Reich.

A misogynist? In 1952 he renounced all of his own Royal titles and patronage in order to be subservient to the one true love of his life; a woman whom he would be with for 74 years. A man with more royal blood than the woman he married, who chose to give up his name for hers and follow two steps behind her for the remainder of his years. A chap who raised his children whilst his wife worked at at time when that was deemed emasculating.

No compassion? His Uncle, Lord Louis Mountbatten - the fellow who raised him during his teenage years and mentored him beyond, indeed the only 'father figure' he knew - was murdered by the IRA in the Republic of Ireland in 1979. In 2012, he stood and watched as his wife shook hands with the man who masterminded his beloved Uncle's murder - and did so in order to ensure a more peaceful life for the souls of the children of Northern Ireland that they did not suffer the childhood he endured.

He was the patron of 800+ charities, founded the Duke of Edinburgh awards that over 3 million British children have benefited from, and was an architect of the World Wildlife Fund for nature. Abrasive and 'of his time' maybe but by God he was a brilliant, clever, witty man who left an indelible mark on all those he met. He attended over 22,000 public engagements in his working life, all to ensure the embetterment of others.

Requiesce in peace Philip Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg; you truly are one of the finest foreign, refugee imports the country has had the pleasure to home, and one of its greatest Britons though not a drop of her blood ran through your veins.

You leave a wealthy legacy of humanitarinism that those who choose to mock could never equal.
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