RIP Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh

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Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh and consort to Queen Elizabeth II, has died aged 99.

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Born on June 10, 1921 in Greece, the Duke of Edinburgh was just months away from celebrating his 100th birthday.
 

I am sad for the people left behind, my condolences to all
but happy for Prince Philip as he led a good and full life
and is now at peace in heaven where all is well.
I read that he had a spiritual awakening late in life
and had a deep Christian faith.

The Royal photographer said the Queen couldn't have
done it without him. He will be greatly missed. Peace 🕊️🌿
 
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My heartfelt sympathies to the Queen, who loved him dearly, let's not go over the top.

When his uncle, Louis, told him to fix his interest with the then Princess Elizabeth she was thirteen! Such a man would have been regarded with distaste in most naval wardrooms of the day, as indeed he would today.
 
There's an amazing co-incidence that no-one seems to have picked up on in the media

When Philip Mountbatten married the Queen, he wanted her to take his surname as was the usual practice.


Cut a long story short...


Soon after the King died and the princess became Queen she was informed by Churchill that she would not be permitted to use Mountabatten as the name for the Royal house and nor would her children take the name. He adised her badly , but as a young Queen she felt she should take the advice of her much older and more experienced Prime Minister

He later advised the Queen to issue a royal proclamation declaring that the royal house was to remain known as the House of Windsor.

This she did on 9 April 1952, officially declaring it her "Will and Pleasure that I and My children shall be styled and known as the House and Family of Windsor, and that My descendants, other than female descendants who marry and their descendants, shall bear the name of Windsor.
Philip privately complained, quote .. "I am nothing but a bloody amoeba. I am the only man in the country not allowed to give his name to his own children."

...so Prince Philp died on the 69th anniversary of the day he was told his children would not carry his name...9th April 2021
 
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Laurie, although we both have the same name (you were here first so I chose a different spelling) and both have been long-time members, we've never interacted in SF. So I'm sorry that our first will be negative but I don't think this is the appropriate time to bring that up in your post #20.

Plus, I'm guessing that royal match-making is probably somewhat arranged and Philip probably didn't have a lot of say in the matter although accepting the honor. I don't know if it's true about his uncle but none of us can be responsible for what our family members say. Look at Meghan and her family.
 
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Laurie said:
My heartfelt sympathies to the Queen, who loved him dearly, let's not go over the top.

When his uncle, Louis, told him to fix his interest with the then Princess Elizabeth she was thirteen! Such a man would have been regarded with distaste in most naval wardrooms of the day, as indeed he would today.
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OFGS...absolute nonsense.... Mountbatten may well have wanted his nephew to hook up with the princess but in actual fact Mountbatten wanted Philip to marry his own daughter as well ...Philip had no fixation on the Queen at that age in fact if anything it was the other way around.. , but PP didn't react to her childhood crush..of course he didn't.. he carried on his dalliance with older girls, while continuing with his Naval career...until Elizabeth was old enough, by which time she'd been sending him letters while he was at sea.
 
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