HRH Prince Philip - Passed Away

[Mr Kobayashi]

Heard on the radio today that the "opinion of Palace insiders " was that he was unsuitable for the Queen and was probably likely to be unfaithful - bit of casual anti-Greek stereotyping there perhaps? Anyway she went ahead and married him.
Then in an interview he said despite all the requirements of his role he always tried to be at home for the kids school holidays.
As you say married a long time, a family man and faithful to the end.

He didn't actually have any Greek heritage. His family thought of themselves as German and Danish.

 

[marco]

Not bleeding free for mine BBC cost me £159

you pay for the BBC

 

[moggymoz]

To be fair he's been the Queens consort since 1952 serve during WW2 I pretty sure a night all of the day and probably as long as they can drag it out, say a few days*. Missing BBC's usual coverage ain't going to break your heart to much.

*Fixed

 

[crooky]

Glad it wasn't just me then!

Heard it on someone's else's radio for about 20 minutes on a talk radio station. Fair enough it's a talk radio station.

Got back to the workshop and they wouldn't stop talking about it on Virgin Radio plus playing god awful 'sad' songs.. changed to Radio 1 as I thought that would be a safe bet. Nope more talking like I was listening to a dreary BBC 4 programme.

Was getting desperate so went for Capital and even they were playing sad songs. It was real barrel scraping time but I finally found some normality in 'KISStory'...

Also no Dance Anthems on Radio 1 back in the car. That's sacrilege not having that as an option on a Friday evening.

 

[dronefromsector7G]

You are not being made to do anything

“This channel is suspended please switch to another channel for a news story” it’s practically telling us to do something. Currently bbc4 now is directing you to iplayer to watch the football that’s supposed to be on there

 

[i kne albert davy]

*Fixed

Thanks but it didn't really need fixing.

 

[Don Karleone]

BBC 1 would've been enough. It doesn't need to be on both BBC channels.

 

[i kne albert davy]

you pay for the BBC

Course I do why would it be otherwise would you work for nothing.

 

[marco]

Course I do why would it be otherwise would you work for nothing.

i just wondered if people still did this,not paid them for 15 plus years now

 

[mackenzie]

wait until the Queen goes.....

I remember hearing about Mountbatten's death and then watching the funeral. It was all.over the news (probably partly because of the shock of his murder). My Gran said what you just said...."wait until the Queen dies."