Anonymous wrote:I really hope Meghan goes. He was quite fond of her and vice versa. I think they were closer than he was to Anne, Sophie, and Kate

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Anonymous wrote:I am very surprised at this. I wonder which of Phillip’s friends are still alive?

I am surprised by this as well. It seems borderline disrespectful.

I think it’s very respectful.

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Anonymous wrote:Charles speaks - he always sounds like he's straining for words

Really? I find him to be one of the most eloquent members of the family. For a son who is grieving, I found this very well-done and moving.

It was obviously heartfelt rather than rehearsed. It was lovely.

I think Charles will be a stabilizing head of the BRF, and William’s family will provide the more youthful connection that seems to resonate with people (family, fashion, and personal appearances).

Yeah okay. I'll believe it when another woman stops living rent-free in British heads.

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Anonymous wrote:Charles speaks - he always sounds like he's straining for words

Really? I find him to be one of the most eloquent members of the family. For a son who is grieving, I found this very well-done and moving.

Anne was better - also grieving and wearing proper mourning black.

Anne was not better.

And, Charles always looks classy. There are no hard and fast rules when it comes to grief and attire...especially when you are the future King.

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Anonymous wrote:Charles speaks - he always sounds like he's straining for words

Really? I find him to be one of the most eloquent members of the family. For a son who is grieving, I found this very well-done and moving.

+1.

I think that the bolded comment is not fair. The short speech that Prince Charles gave was very touching. One can assume that those things are heavily rehearsed and not off the cuff yet he sounded like he meant what he said and he said from the heart. I can not imagine that anyone with semblance of empathy can judge a son who just lost his father on the speaking merit.
However many years he was preparing for this, it is a loss.. loss of a parent at any age make one feel like a child and hits hard.
He kept his class and composure because this is what they are raised and groomed to do but behind the facade there is a normal grieving person with all that comes with loosing a father.. all that grief comes with regardless of a rank of a person. There is a whole lot that is on his shoulders and mind now. And the whole world is watching. That is really tough.

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Anonymous wrote:If you add us the age of Prince Philip when he married, to the years of his marriage to the Queen...it adds up to his age at death. 99 years.

Yeah someone earlier mentioned that the ages of Charles wives together is 99.

And Phillip died on the 9th day of the 99th day of the year or something. It’s weird.

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Anonymous wrote:Charles speaks - he always sounds like he's straining for words

Really? I find him to be one of the most eloquent members of the family. For a son who is grieving, I found this very well-done and moving.

+1.

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Anonymous wrote:This is who I bet will be in attendance (from the Royal Family):

The Queen, Prince Charles, Duchess of Cornwall, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Duke of Sussex, Prince Andrew, Prince Edward, Countess of Wessex, Lady Louis, James, Viscount Severn, Princess Anne, Timothy Laurence, Zara Tindall, Mike Tindall, Peter Phillips, Princess Eugenie, Jack Brooksbank, Princess Beatrice, Edo Mapelli Mozzi, possibly the Duke and Duchess of Kent

Not part of the RF: Prince Philip's private secretary, a few long-time staff, Boris Johnson, Archbishop of Canterbury

Philip doesn't have any surviving members from his Greece family?

Nope

Not true - at all.

His uncle was King of Greece and desposed. The entire Greek royal family lives in the U.S. and would have been included in a normal ceremony. Nothing would have stopped Marie-Chantal from showing up in royal finery.

In addition Phillip had 18 nieces and nephews born of his three sisters. 5 of the nephews and 1 niece is still alive. On top of all the grand-nephews and nieces who are in their 40s, 50s, and 60s.

Deposed Crown Prince and Princess of Greece at William + Kate's wedding


Phillip and Elizabeth at Marie-Chantal's wedding

What's with the headdress???

Good God,,,, poor woman

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Anonymous wrote:Charles speaks - he always sounds like he's straining for words

Really? I find him to be one of the most eloquent members of the family. For a son who is grieving, I found this very well-done and moving.

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Anonymous wrote:Charles speaks - he always sounds like he's straining for words

Really? I find him to be one of the most eloquent members of the family. For a son who is grieving, I found this very well-done and moving.

Anne was better - also grieving and wearing proper mourning black.

We’re ranking the grieving children now?

I mean - isn't that what the royal family's for?

Charles is well-known to have been a horrible father in his own kid's childhood and didn't get along with Phillip (who thought he was weak) in his own youth. Its weird to me how families will butt heads for decades but when one dies the waterworks come out.

That is actually not true - at all. He was not a horrible father at all. I don’t have the time to get into it with you but one of the best examples of the way in which the media portrayed Charles as a father was that iconic video of Diana running to hug her sons after they got back from a Royal Tour. The video no one ever showed? The moment after when Charles went in for the hug as well.

And what kind of monster are you? There’s a difference between butting heads and not caring when one dies, Jesus.

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Anonymous wrote:This is who I bet will be in attendance (from the Royal Family):

The Queen, Prince Charles, Duchess of Cornwall, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Duke of Sussex, Prince Andrew, Prince Edward, Countess of Wessex, Lady Louis, James, Viscount Severn, Princess Anne, Timothy Laurence, Zara Tindall, Mike Tindall, Peter Phillips, Princess Eugenie, Jack Brooksbank, Princess Beatrice, Edo Mapelli Mozzi, possibly the Duke and Duchess of Kent

Not part of the RF: Prince Philip's private secretary, a few long-time staff, Boris Johnson, Archbishop of Canterbury

Philip doesn't have any surviving members from his Greece family?

Nope

Not true - at all.

His uncle was King of Greece and desposed. The entire Greek royal family lives in the U.S. and would have been included in a normal ceremony. Nothing would have stopped Marie-Chantal from showing up in royal finery.

In addition Phillip had 18 nieces and nephews born of his three sisters. 5 of the nephews and 1 niece is still alive. On top of all the grand-nephews and nieces who are in their 40s, 50s, and 60s.

Deposed Crown Prince and Princess of Greece at William + Kate's wedding


Phillip and Elizabeth at Marie-Chantal's wedding

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Anonymous wrote:If you add us the age of Prince Philip when he married, to the years of his marriage to the Queen...it adds up to his age at death. 99 years.

Well, yes. Because he was 99 and had one wife. That is math.

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Anonymous wrote:I am very surprised at this. I wonder which of Phillip’s friends are still alive?

I am surprised by this as well. It seems borderline disrespectful.

Anonymous wrote:If you add us the age of Prince Philip when he married, to the years of his marriage to the Queen...it adds up to his age at death. 99 years.