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Anonymous wrote:I highly recommend watching SkyNews UK live coverage of Prince Philip's funeral -- features commentary by Alastair Bruce -- he is a stellar Royal contributor, former British Army Major General and current Governor of Edinburgh Castle who knew Prince Philip well and has extensive, thoughtful commentary and background.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Auq9mYxFEE

Alastair Bruce's style is so good -- reminds me of Lucy Worsley (for those of you who follow British historical documentaries) in terms of breadth of knowledge and vignettes. Such great coverage so far.

Agree. Thank you for the heads up on the coverage.

Anonymous wrote:I highly recommend watching SkyNews UK live coverage of Prince Philip's funeral -- features commentary by Alastair Bruce -- he is a stellar Royal contributor, former British Army Major General and current Governor of Edinburgh Castle who knew Prince Philip well and has extensive, thoughtful commentary and background.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Auq9mYxFEE

Alastair Bruce's style is so good -- reminds me of Lucy Worsley (for those of you who follow British historical documentaries) in terms of breadth of knowledge and vignettes. Such great coverage so far.

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Anonymous wrote:Louise and Sophie ride - the Queen rides
And Louise had to recover from partial blindness which I believe Q&P helped with

Remind me who Louise is?

Is your google broken? Look it up!

Lady Louise is 17 year-old daughter of Prince Edward and Sophie, Countess of Wessex. Prince Edward is the youngest son of Queen Elizabeth. Edward and Sophie also have a 13 year old son, James, Viscount Severn.

Also, Prince Edward and Sophie, Countess of Wessex and their family are extremely close to the Queen and live near Windsor. They were all very close to Prince Philip, and Lady Louise particularly had a close bond with Prince Philip, who encouraged her love and talent in horse-carriage driving. Prince Philip embraced carriage driving after he was forced to give up polo due to injury.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Louise and Sophie ride - the Queen rides
And Louise had to recover from partial blindness which I believe Q&P helped with

Remind me who Louise is?

Is your google broken? Look it up!

Lady Louise is 17 year-old daughter of Prince Edward and Sophie, Countess of Wessex. Prince Edward is the youngest son of Queen Elizabeth. Edward and Sophie also have a 13 year old son, James, Viscount Severn.

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Anonymous wrote:Louise and Sophie ride - the Queen rides
And Louise had to recover from partial blindness which I believe Q&P helped with

Remind me who Louise is?

Is your google broken? Look it up!

Anonymous wrote:The whole separating William and Harry is a bit ridiculous. As a civilized people during a funeral they should not need any special strategies to behave civilized.

As a members od BRF double that. Pople are paying them to behave. Being on the taxpayers roll they should controll themselves without extra separation.. unles this is all about putting a show and upping the drama.

The placement of precedence for this formation is that of eldest grandchild -- Peter Phillips in the center -- who is placed in center because of his being the eldest grandchild. Highest "ranking" person always goes in the middle, then next-ranked to the center person's immediate right (William) then to Peter's left (Harry).


They are not using royal rankings, in which case William would be in the middle and then Harry on his right.

I highly recommend watching SkyNews UK live coverage of Prince Philip's funeral -- features commentary by Alastair Bruce -- he is a stellar Royal contributor, former British Army Major General and current Governor of Edinburgh Castle who knew Prince Philip well and has extensive, thoughtful commentary and background.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Auq9mYxFEE

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Anonymous wrote:People are calling Penny's daughter Alexandra Knatchbull 'William with hair'. They're the same age too. Of course Phillip is her 'grand-godfather'. O.O

What are you insinuating here OP????

William looks like Diana in this picture.

Go ahead finish the sentence...

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Anonymous wrote:People are calling Penny's daughter Alexandra Knatchbull 'William with hair'. They're the same age too. Of course Phillip is her 'grand-godfather'. O.O

What are you insinuating here OP????

William looks like Diana in this picture.

Anonymous wrote:Louise and Sophie ride - the Queen rides
And Louise had to recover from partial blindness which I believe Q&P helped with

Remind me who Louise is?

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Anonymous wrote:one more year and he would have been a century old.

Two more months and Prince Philip would have been a century old.

And BOY what a difference it would make..

oh wait.. no it would not.

Anonymous wrote:one more year and he would have been a century old.

Two more months and Prince Philip would have been a century old.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm not surprised that H and W won't walk behind the coffin. That is usually only done by the children (Charles, Ann, Andrew, Edward, right?) of the deceased, no? Not by the grandkids (H, W, Eugenia, Bea).

While I was thinking that this was usually only done by close, male, relatives— so it’s significant that Princess Anne will be walking.

Princess Anne was a favorite of her father's. She was much more like him than any of her brothers and took over the tile of Captain General of the Royal Marines after he nephew followed his true love to the United States.

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Anonymous wrote:More like ‘close mistresses’ but whatever.

Where have I been, I had no idea the UK PM had a Camp David.

Dwight Eisenhower - grandfather of David Eisenhower for whom Camp David is named -- spent time at Chequers. Franklin Roosevelt also loved Chequers, but he loved Warm Springs, Georgia more -- for obvious reasons --

Anonymous wrote:one more year and he would have been a century old.

Two months actually. He said he didn't want it. He also said he wanted to come back incarnated as a viral plague. Sooo...wishes given

Prince Philip Once Said He Had "No Desire" to Live to 100 and Couldn't "Imagine Anything Worse"
https://www.marieclaire.com/celebrity/a36085808/prince-philip-had-no-desire-to-live-to-100/