Prince Philip dead

[Sheilbh]

Also - I just think he's fully grown man in his 60s kicking up a fuss about very little ahead of his dad's funeral

[Tamas]

Luckily, they have found a way to avoid the issue of Prince Pederast's uniform AND blame it all on Harry, win-win:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/apr/15/royals-forgo-military-uniform-prince-philip-funeral-avoid-embarrassing-harry

[garbon]

Luckily, they have found a way to avoid the issue of Prince Pederast's uniform AND blame it all on Harry, win-win:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/apr/15/royals-forgo-military-uniform-prince-philip-funeral-avoid-embarrassing-harry

Great! Now what's next on the agenda?

[Maladict]

Not really sure I understand this. Harry has had to give up his honorary military titles, but he did serve. Should he not be allowed to wear some sort of uniform?

Anyway, royals in uniforms are weird. I'm reminded of the Frankie Boyle joke:
We sent Prince Harry to Afghanistan. Beacuse when you want to teach people about democracy, you send them a prince. You teach them about peace and democracy by having a prince shoot at them from a helicopter.

[Tamas]

Not really sure I understand this. Harry has had to give up his honorary military titles, but he did serve. Should he not be allowed to wear some sort of uniform?

Anyway, royals in uniforms are weird. I'm reminded of the Frankie Boyle joke:
We sent Prince Harry to Afghanistan. Beacuse when you want to teach people about democracy, you send them a prince. You teach them about peace and democracy by having a prince shoot at them from a helicopter.

Quite obviously this is more about the rapist son than Harry, but this way they have the bonus of kicking Harry for leaving.

[Admiral Yi]

Why is the remembrencer balancing a felt frisbee on his head?

[Sheilbh]

It's his hat.

It's actually a small tricorn on a wig.

[The Minsky Moment]

Harry should be able to wear his regimental uniform regardless of whether he gave up his archaic feudal titles.

Andrew should be permitted to wear his proper uniform of prison stripes and dunce cap, and be placed outside the chapel in the stocks.

[Sheilbh]

On Philip's links to the pre-WW1 Ruritania:

Mourners will include the duke's children and grandchildren, as well as relatives from the German side of his family, who have flown into the UK and are isolating before Saturday's service. Those invited are Bernhard, Hereditary Prince of Baden, Donatus, Landgrave of Hesse, and Prince Philipp of Hohenlohe-Langenburg – two great-nephews and a cousin – who are staying at a house in Ascot.

[Admiral Yi]

I guess enough time has passed you don't need to worry about Nazis lurking in the family tree?

[Sheilbh]

I guess enough time has passed you don't need to worry about Nazis lurking in the family tree?

I feel like one of his brother-in-laws joined the SS and they cut that side of the family. The rest were just nobility in the Wehrmacht.

[Valmy]

Wasn't he Prince of Denmark and Greece? Are any Greeks or Danes coming? Though the Greek nobles were all Germans weren't they?

[Sheilbh]

Exactly

And they're only allowed 30 people, plus I think that's more his ancestry and when you're 99 chances are not many of the family members older than you will turn up to your funeral. While I think all of his sisters married German princes etc.

[The Larch]

I wonder if our Queen Sofía will attend, I believe they were second cousins or something. 

[The Larch]

I wonder if our Queen Sofía will attend, I believe they were second cousins or something. 

Apparently not, only 3 foreign guests seem to be in attendance, all fantastically ruritarian German aristocrats (The Prince of Baden! The Landgrave of Hesse! The Prince of Hohenlohe-Langeburg!).