HRH Prince Philip - Passed Away

A long and fruitful marriage. Can't imagine being married that long. Changed the way the Royals interacted with the public. A fantastic mind, great military service and then gave it all up because he fell in love. Sure he was outspoken but he came from a completely different generation.

R.I.P


What I don't like is a load of my favourite channels having banners all over them saying "Breaking news, please tune into BBC news." Why? I've heard the news and now I want to watch old Top Gear.

And the amount of sycophants all jumping out of the woodwork. I thought Witchell was dead. I've just shouted at the radio at him. The ****.
On the telly now Mr Toad
 
I thought folk would be interested in HRH Philips earlier life and childhood. It wasn't all easy for the guy and explains something of his later personality.

In 1922, Philip's uncle, the king of Greece, was forced to abdicate after the debacle of the Greco-Turkish War. Philip’s father, who was working in the army, was accused of treason and exiled. The family fled to Paris, where they would be based for the next decade, but it was an extremely difficult period for them.

"Though his parents both adored him, Philip saw little of them in his nomadic early years," Eade notes in his book. "His mother’s nerves had been badly strained by the family’s exile from Greece, and because of this the children were regularly packed off to friends and relations."

In 1931, Princess Alice suffered from a nervous breakdown and she was confined to a sanatorium in Switzerland. “The children had been taken out for the day and they returned that evening to find their mother gone,” Eade adds. (She was later reportedly diagnosed with schizophrenia.)
With his four older sisters married to German aristocrats and settled in Germany and his father now in the South of France, Philip was alone at just 10 years old. Years later, when an interviewer for The Independent asked him what language he spoke at home, he answered: “What do you mean, ‘at home’?”

Philip did not see or receive any word from his mother between the summer of 1932 and the spring of 1937. “It’s simply what happened,” the Prince later commented. “The family broke up. My mother was ill, my sisters were married, my father was in the south of France. I just had to get on with it. You do. One does.”

With no parents to care for him, Philip’s mother’s family—the Milford Havens and the Mountbattens—stepped in. The family had ties to the British royal family and many of the royal houses of Europe. Alice was a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, and the oldest daughter of Louis Mountbatten, the first Marquess of Milford Haven.

Under the care of his aunts on uncles, Philip went to school in England and was then briefly educated in Germany at a school owned by one of his sister's husbands. Less than a year later, Philip returned to Britain and was sent to Gordonstoun, a boarding school in Scotland. (Gordonstoun is famous for its somewhat spartan, outdoor, education ethos). Prince Charles famously disliked his years at the school).

While he was there, Philip experienced another series of tragedies. When he was 16, his sister Cecile, her husband, and their two children were killed in a plane crash. Just a few months later, his uncle and guardian, George Mountbatten, the second Marquess of Milford Haven, died suddenly of cancer at the age of 46. Gordonstoun's German headmaster, Kurt Hahn, was the one to break the news. “His sorrow was that of a man,” his headmaster is said to have recalled.

 
RIP Philip.

'Harry and Meghan' at the funeral is going to be interesting.
Depends if they can increase their Internet profile by being there. I suspect that would be foremost in their minds. Having said that RIP and many thanks for your life of service. May God hold your soul close to him
 

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