Prince Philip dead

[The Brain]

That is sad. That generation really is fading fast now.

RIP

Yeah I only have one maternal grandfather left.

How many... er nevermind, none of my business.

Are step-grandparents not a thing where you are? Among a myriad of other ways to have multiple grandparents.

I had four parents and therefore eight grandparents.

I don't live in a porno, sorry.

[mongers]

Oh dear, sad to hear of another WW2 veterans death, iirc he was one of the few remaining sailors who fought at Cape Matapan, commanded a searchlight during the close range fighting.

I Really hope the Queen doesn't give up.

[Syt]

From his foreword to If I Were an Animal (1987) by Fleur Cowles:

I just wonder what it would be like to be reincarnated in an animal whose species had been so reduced in numbers than it was in danger of extinction. What would be its feelings toward the human species whose population explosion had denied it somewhere to exist... I must confess that I am tempted to ask for reincarnation as a particularly deadly virus.

[Sheilbh]

Oh dear, sad to hear of another WW2 veterans death, iirc he was one of the few remaining sailors who fought at Cape Matapan, commanded a searchlight during the close range fighting.

I Really hope the Queen doesn't give up.

Yeah. Also one of the last figures from that strange Ruritanian Europe that sort of still had ties to pre-WW1 Europe. You know cousin of exiled German and Russian royalty, descended from a Tsar and various other Scandinavian and German royal families (he was always royaler than the Queen), his mother became a Greek Orthodox nun (and on the Righteous Among the Nations list for hiding Jewish families). And he would have been a Greek royal - except for the disastrous Megali Idea invasion of Turkey, with his father as one of the generals. That was lost with the rise of Ataturk and a sort of early inter-war chaos.

There's a Radetzky March/Stefan Zweig style book to be written about him - we'll get loads of guff about him "modernising the Royals" and what he did in the UK, but in a way it's the European angle and where he came from that's interesting and perhaps understated in his role - I see in one obit that he was an early patron of the Anglo-German Association talking about "forgiving one's enemies" not long after the war.

Edit: Pretty decent and fair obit in The Times (non-paywalled):
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/8fa52fae-568a-11e7-b34e-8647bf2bc7f8?shareToken=40a210dbbbcc313945d8a1d0aaccced7

[viper37]

RIP.

He seemed a charming fellow.

[mongers]

Oh dear, sad to hear of another WW2 veterans death, iirc he was one of the few remaining sailors who fought at Cape Matapan, commanded a searchlight during the close range fighting.

I Really hope the Queen doesn't give up.

Yeah. Also one of the last figures from that strange Ruritanian Europe that sort of still had ties to pre-WW1 Europe. You know cousin of exiled German and Russian royalty, descended from a Tsar and various other Scandinavian and German royal families (he was always royaler than the Queen), his mother became a Greek Orthodox nun (and on the Righteous Among the Nations list for hiding Jewish families). And he would have been a Greek royal - except for the disastrous Megali Idea invasion of Turkey, with his father as one of the generals. That was lost with the rise of Ataturk and a sort of early inter-war chaos.

There's a Radetzky March/Stefan Zweig style book to be written about him - we'll get loads of guff about him "modernising the Royals" and what he did in the UK, but in a way it's the European angle and where he came from that's interesting and perhaps understated in his role - I see in one obit that he was an early patron of the Anglo-German Association talking about "forgiving one's enemies" not long after the war.

Edit: Pretty decent and fair obit in The Times (non-paywalled):
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/8fa52fae-568a-11e7-b34e-8647bf2bc7f8?shareToken=40a210dbbbcc313945d8a1d0aaccced7

Shelf, you know you've just written a treatment for a book you could So easily write?


Also I was rather fond of a nickname for him, Phil the Greek, I think it was only a comedy or left-wing originated one, but it struck me as somewhat 'affectionate' and not nasty.

[Caliga]

Also... all hail Charles, Duke of Edinburgh

[Maladict]

RIP

My first thought was we forgot to make a new deadpool thread. 

[Zanza]

RIP.

His politically incorrect jokes and comments were fun. The rest of the family seems boring in comparison. 

Yeah. Also one of the last figures from that strange Ruritanian Europe that sort of still had ties to pre-WW1 Europe. You know cousin of exiled German and Russian royalty, descended from a Tsar and various other Scandinavian and German royal families (he was always royaler than the Queen), his mother became a Greek Orthodox nun (and on the Righteous Among the Nations list for hiding Jewish families). And he would have been a Greek royal - except for the disastrous Megali Idea invasion of Turkey, with his father as one of the generals. That was lost with the rise of Ataturk and a sort of early inter-war chaos.

The first episodes of The Crown were really interesting there.

[Valmy]

RIP Philip. Somewhere in Vanuata a village is mourning the loss of its god.

[Richard Hakluyt]

RIP Philip. Somewhere in Vanuata a village is mourning the loss of its god.
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....or celebrating his apotheosis 

[Sheilbh]

RIP Philip. Somewhere in Vanuata a village is mourning the loss of its god.

Yes! I cannot wait for the first long read from that island.

[The Minsky Moment]

RIP Philip. Somewhere in Vanuata a village is mourning the loss of its god.

Jean-Pascal Wahé of the Vanuatu Cultural Center told the newspaper that the islanders believe Prince Philip's spirit "will come to Tanna" and that they will worship Prince Charles. The 72-year-old is prince of Wales and heir to the British throne.

God Phillip is dead. Long live God Charles.

[Josephus]

RIP

My first thought was we forgot to make a new deadpool thread. 

Yeah, my bad. I normally set that up. 

[mongers]

I should add I used to work for the Duke of Edinburgh, I ran a project for his award scheme taking it to young people in industry and work. 

I never met him, as I didn't complete their gold award.