78 Replies to “Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh 1921 – 2021”

    1. As a Navy man, very apropos.

      Apparently he was in Tokyo Bay when Nippon surrendered.

      Helluva life.

    1. I had similar thoughts when the Queen Mother died about 20 years ago.

      I was corresponding with someone in SE Asia at the time and mentioned that in one of my messages. She was bewildered about our relationship with the Crown and didn’t quite understand the significance of the event.

  1. Shows what money and access to excellent health care can accomplish
    Lesson here… Don’t be poor

    1. My great grandmother lived to be 101. She grew up poor on a farm on the Northern plains. She worked her way through two world wars, the Depression, and then managed to reach a comfortable existence in the 1960’s, finally being able to buy a tiny house with electricity and running water, the first time in her life she had that luxury and she was in her 60’s. She assumed she’d spend her twilight years in that little house. Little did she know she would outlive her husband and her only child, and meet 6 great great grandchildren as she lived to see the new millennium.

      She wasn’t “poor” in her last two decades, but she wasn’t rich. She hated doctors.

  2. Leaving aside the prince stuff, he was a kind of guy one could have a glass of wine with.
    WWF notwithstanding.

    1. Interesting question. I heard today that he was descended from Queen Victoria. And, with all the Royal in marraige. Across the continent a connection to the Romanov would not surprise.

      So, you prompt two questions. Was he of the Romanov lineage? And, was he the last of that line?

      Does anyone know?

      1. The Tsarina Alexandra was his great aunt. He provided a blood sample for DNA testing that disproved the claim of Anna Anderson that she was the Princess Anastasia. I even met him, for all of 5 seconds, on the opening day of the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton. He asked me if I shouldn’t take the lens cap off my camera.

  3. Of all places CBC TV has done a decent job. One of the videos they showed of a speech he gave which is a rebuke to the woke culture of today -but I suspect it was in the early 1960s as it was in black and white. In the video he talked about the importance of personal responsibility and taking action yourself rather than demanding that others do so or that the government does. The importance of community and ensuring that those around you are taken care of through your personal actions rather than just talking about things others should do. Would be a great clip for any SJW to listen to.

    1. Almost 100 and the Queen turns 95 on April 21.
      It looks like Charles and his siblings have won the genetic lottery for longevity.
      Charles could be around for many years. Unfortunately

    2. Megan and Prince Harry Markel Duke of Sussex can now keep things lively by making the grand old man spin in his grave.

  4. I always thought of him as Liz’s Spiro Agnew – he said the things she was thinking but couldn’t say out loud.

  5. Some of his comments were legendary. Those’ll be missed. I don’t think there are a lot of royals left that have the “life of service” commitment dyed into their wool.

    My suspicion is that Elizabeth won’t be long for public life, presuming she can emotionally weather the loss. I’d go so far as to predict actual abdication in favour of His Dorkness within the year, sadly.

    1. I really doubt it. She’s a tough old bird and her mom lived into her 100’s. I’m guessing she’ll soldier on without complaint. Besides, she knows Charles will likely be the end of the monarchy.

      1. I agree. Even though she is sympathetic to Globohomo, she won’t allow if she can, the future “King of England” to bow to Islam.

    2. Elizabeth will not abdicate. Her sense of duty was shaped strongly by the horrific example of her uncle the appalling Edward VIII and his abdication in 1936. Edward went on to be an open sympathizer and haven for Nazi spying operations in North America during the war when he was Governor of Bahamas. The responsibility of being forced to become king destroyed her father George VI with the strain of public speaking and being monarch during WW2.

      1. Possibly. I just don’t think she’ll have the fight left in her at this point. Whether she dies and Chuck is king, or she abdicates and Chuck is king, it’s all same-same. At this point, she doesn’t have enough time left to “fix” it by outlasting her heir. She might as well just back out and enjoy her grandkids.

        As to Thomas above, the Queen Mum wasn’t regnant, so she didn’t have the same stresses or responsibilities. And she doesn’t have enough political power to prevent anything, really.

      2. Actually this may seem strange but given the Markle nonsense my respect for Wallis has grown. Granted there wasn’t quite the celeb culture in the 1930s-60s but she could have complained to any media person in the US and it would have been given press. So either she didn’t or the press were not interested (however I don’t think that is the case).

        1. It’s different when you marry for actual love, and not for a shot at the title.

          1. The documents including Wallis’s own letters to her ex-husband suggest she didn’t love Edward, but had a sense of duty towards him. She would have been happy being the mistress, but he insisted to the point of abdicating. She felt obligated to stay with him at that point. People who knew her attest to the fact that it was a one sided love affair, with Wallis mostly feeling pity towards her husband and later resentment.

          2. Thanks, Deb. I hadn’t known that. Not interested enough to really research beyond the surface, I suppose. One could probably then say that they deserved each other. That she didn’t marry for the title still obtains, though, does it not? Markle wants all the glory and none of the responsibility…as one does when dealing with the peons.

        2. She’s long dead, and that’s a good thing. She and her husband the Duke of Windsor (the former Edward Viii) were both Nazi sympathizers and collaborators. Why do you think they were exiled to the Bahamas during the war?

    3. ‘His Dorkness’
      My Burkes Peerage has gone missing but I think he’s entitled to the flourish
      ‘His Royal Dorkness’

    1. Gawwwwd … PLEASE bypass that “Prince” who yearned to become a tampon so he could be closer to Camilla … He IS a total tampon.

    2. Let’s be realistic, while Diana was pretty, she would have been a horror to live with. No support for her husband, all the focus had to be on HER, and even went the route of disparaging his interests (remember how she ridiculed him about ‘talking to his plants’ ). He was on the forefront of organics (I could care less about organics, but good for him for having a vision and sticking with it). His Prince’s Trust is a huge charitable organization working with young people and nowhere are there ‘galas’ where celebs can swan around looking important. I’m sure at meetings/events he taps the well heeled on the shoulder to tell them about a project for the Trust that he needs 1 million for and they fork over – which is how charity should be done. He just plods along with his beliefs and gets things done.

      If Diana had lived she would have been an awful mother-in-law and would be looking to steal the limelight from her sons – Meghan would have eaten her alive.

      1. I don’t disagree with you on Diana, but her husband is a dunce. He ideas on G/W are so off the wall, he should just hide.
        Diana work in stopping landmines was a joke too. Once made, they will never go away. No matter how much they a banned.

  6. A few months ago I suggested to Boris that Philip be given a special honourary appointment as King (Consort) in time for his 100th birthday. That and the other million emails he received that day were likely never read.

  7. The biography in Macleans missed a lot. One of the things it missed was rather large. Prince Phillip was a veteran of the last surface battle in WW2 involving British navy battleships and another battleship, (North Cape doesn’t count as Scharnhorst was no battleship). it was the Battle of Cape Matapan in March 1941, in which Phillip was serving as officer commanding a searchlight on HMS Warspite. If you are interested in the battle, you can find the details here.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8I2HavEEPE

    For naval historians, I highly recommend all of Drachinifel’s videos.

  8. Maybe it’s just me, or the part of Canada that I’m from (prairies), but the whole Royal family is just one big welfare group. I never heard Prince Philip say a word. All he did was stand behind his wife and try to look interested while she “worked “. Ya, it’s sad to see an old guy go, but if the entire royal family dissapeared tomorrow, would anybody even notice?

    1. Prince Philip worked very hard, as the Queen still does. Your ignorance is showing.

      As an American I prefer our lack of monarchy, but that doesn’t mean that British Royal Family doesn’t serve a function and that they don’t have to work.

      1. You have an American monarchy. And a hereditary feudal aristocracy (your permanent ruling class) complete with the lesser nobility leading the bureaucrat class. Pretty pathetic, actually. Ever notice how virtually every Republic on earth, isn’t?

        And are there many countries left that you HAVEN’T bombed into becoming yet another of your vassal states?

        America is a vile cesspit of corruption, sexual depravity, and political violence. You will not last much longer, Babylon.

        1. You are describing the globalist class that real Americans voted against twice when we elected Trump.

          It’s true the Republic has been subverted by the corrupt ruling class and the military industrial complex. But the majority America of Americans are decent people who didn’t vote for it.

          What’s Canada’s excuse? How did you become a vassal puppet to a genocidal country like China?

          People in glass houses…

  9. Stolen off the internet since it is funny:

    “”Prince Philip on the number of UK Members of Parliament when he discovered Ghana only had just 200 MPs:
    “That’s about the right number. We have 650 and most of them are a complete bloody waste of time.”””

  10. A reminder of how close we are to having a chinless, jug eared dauphin who may or may not be a Muslim becoming the head of State, Armed Forces and the church of England.

  11. Imagine. Living for that many years knowing you were responsible for Charles and Andrew. Poor man.

  12. A very sad day for Her Majesty and the rest of the Royal Family, also for the British people and the Commonwealth and Western civilization. As evidence of some of the comments above many have no appreciation of the importance of the Royals in Britain and indeed to the tangible link that they represent to history. For those that wish to denigrate the monarchy, perhaps you should learn a little history of some of the countries that cast out their monarchies. A thousand years of history entwined with the reigns of kings and queens, however flawed and human as some were, should stand as an icon in our evolution. As mentioned above the sacrifice to duty and honour exhibited by Her Majesty should give us all a moment to appreciate what Prince Philip’s death means.

    1. ”… perhaps you should learn a little history of some of the countries that cast out their monarchies. A thousand years of history entwined with the reigns of kings and queens, however flawed and human as some were, should stand as an icon in our evolution.

      Indeed. Well said.

      And when I listen to the Anti-Monarch crowd … they all sound EXACTLY like contemporary Bolsheviks. They would do like SHE did … “SHE came, SHE saw, He DIED … cackle … hahahahaha … guffaw … cackle” … (somewhat like Kamela Harris)

        1. Screw ‘President Cackle’ and her Biden manservant.
          The Queen needs to send her a tape of Royal Speeches.

    2. Agreed.

      Sorry…. But Wanna be Princess Megan Markel should be banned from England, and Prince Harry should be sent to another war zone.

  13. Well done thou good and faithful servant.

    May the Duke of Edinburgh rest in peace and may the Crown’s enemies from Berlin to Beijing to Beverly Hills never know a moment’s rest.

  14. The Royals and famous and billionaires seem to live much longer lives than the rest of the population. I wonder why? Serious question.

    1. Ask Amy Winehouse, Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrison, Janice Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Michael Hutchence…

      Seriously, though, it’s no mystery: if you can afford the best medical treatment you’ll live longer.

  15. Interesting that there was not a single reference to his love of hunting or shooting sports.

    However, what a life!

  16. A spoiled rotten snobby plutocratic dwarf of a man who’s never done an honest days work in his life.

    1. Does that view of yours extend to his naval service during WWII?

      You ever been in a naval battle?

  17. Canadian Subjects do not appreciate having their owners and masters talked about in this manner.

  18. “In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, to contribute something to solving overpopulation (1988)”

    Okay, is there a vaccine for this/him????????

  19. I was enrolled, graduated and was “Safety Patrol of The Year” at Princess Elizabeth Public School and grew up singing God Save The Queen.

    Rest in peace.

  20. Play the hand your dealt with honor and show devotion to the one you are closest to– and this man did it. Though my opinion about the crown was established circa 1776…

  21. In an ideal world the monarchy would come to an end when Queen Elizabeth II graciously journeys to a better life . I have always admired her class , determination and strength during WW2 and beyond . The thought of Charles ascending the throne makes me want to barf .

    1. The problem is that – regardless of the title applied or how they are selected – there is little chance that any alternatives will not have the same effect.
      That is kind of the point of a non-elected monarchy. It is the job of the monarch to represent all, not just those who voted for them.

  22. The CBC’s political panel of Unifor journalists were busy tonight trashing the prince and the monarchy. But Blackie is wonderful.

  23. He fought actual Nazis and weeks before his death got accused of being an achtual nasi by an American git and her nutless sugar daddy.

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