I only mention it in case he’s on your celebrity dead pool list, as he was on mine. So far my youngest kid is leading at three this year. I’m in at two....but the year is young.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/w...-ii-dies-99-n1258159

99 is a good run.

Long live the King! Or something like that. Yeah, 99 is a good run.

$10 the queen goes this year too. 99 is a long run and they have been together for over 2/3rds if it.

If he’s married to the queen, why isn’t he king? Not that I give a crap about so called royalty, just curious.

I think that the idea is to keep it in the family.

Both he and Elizabeth were/are great-great-grandchildren of Queen Victoria.

(Edited to add a couple of 'greats'.)

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I can’t imagine living that long. All this man has seen and experienced. I’m sure at least part of him was ready to just check out. He came from that British “stiff upper lip” stock.

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Originally posted by GarandGuy:
I can’t imagine living that long. All this man has seen and experienced. I’m sure at least part of him was ready to just check out. He came from that British “stiff upper lip” stock.

Being married to the Queen, can you just imagine all the stuff he's seen & kept his mouth shut about?

I wonder if they'll let that little bitch Harry back in the country for the funeral. Or if he even cares.

My wife and I got hooked watching 'The Crown' on Netflix this year. Very fascinating story about Elizabeth and Phillip. We really had little idea of any of it.
RIP Prince Phillip.

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Originally posted by ruger357:
If he’s married to the queen, why isn’t he king?

In the British royal hierarchy, the position of King is the highest, and represents the ultimate authority to rule. If there is no reigning King, the reigning Queen has the highest power, as next in the hierarchy of power. But anyone she marries cannot be styled as King, since the higher position of being King would trump the Queen's authority.

So women married to the reigning King are known as the Queen, since the higher-ranking King is the one with the power to rule. But men married to the reigning Queen are known as Prince, since the Queen has power to rule (and thus outranks her husband).

Served with distinction in the Royal Navy during WWII in both the Med and Pacific fleets, did not suffer fools gladly,had no truck with any lefties, may he R.I.P.

From wikipedia:
Naval and wartime service

Philip served aboard HMS Valiant in the Battle of the Mediterranean
After leaving Gordonstoun in early 1939, Philip completed a term as a cadet at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, then repatriated to Greece, living with his mother in Athens for a month in mid-1939. At the behest of the Greek king, George II (his first-cousin), he returned to Britain in September to resume training for the Royal Navy.[20] He graduated from Dartmouth the next year as the best cadet in his course.[21] During the Second World War, he continued to serve in the British forces, while two of his brothers-in-law, Prince Christoph of Hesse and Berthold, Margrave of Baden, fought on the opposing German side.[22] Philip was appointed as a midshipman in January 1940. He spent four months on the battleship HMS Ramillies, protecting convoys of the Australian Expeditionary Force in the Indian Ocean, followed by shorter postings on HMS Kent, on HMS Shropshire, and in Ceylon.[23] After the invasion of Greece by Italy in October 1940, he was transferred from the Indian Ocean to the battleship HMS Valiant in the Mediterranean Fleet.[24]

On 1 February 1941,[25] Philip was commissioned as a sub-lieutenant after a series of courses at Portsmouth, in which he gained the top grade in four out of five sections of the qualifying examination.[26] Among other engagements, he was involved in the battle of Crete, and was mentioned in dispatches for his service during the battle of Cape Matapan, in which he controlled the battleship's searchlights. He was also awarded the Greek War Cross.[21] In June 1942, he was appointed to the V and W-class destroyer and flotilla leader HMS Wallace, which was involved in convoy escort tasks on the east coast of Britain, as well as the Allied invasion of Sicily.[27]

Promotion to lieutenant followed on 16 July 1942.[28] In October of the same year, he became first lieutenant of HMS Wallace, at 21 years old one of the youngest first lieutenants in the Royal Navy. During the invasion of Sicily, in July 1943, as second in command of Wallace, he saved his ship from a night bomber attack. He devised a plan to launch a raft with smoke floats that successfully distracted the bombers, allowing the ship to slip away unnoticed.[27] In 1944, he moved on to the new destroyer, HMS Whelp, where he saw service with the British Pacific Fleet in the 27th Destroyer Flotilla.[29][30] He was present in Tokyo Bay when the instrument of Japanese surrender was signed. Philip returned to the United Kingdom on the Whelp in January 1946, and was posted as an instructor at HMS Royal Arthur, the Petty Officers' School in Corsham, Wiltshire.[31]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..._and_wartime_service

Sad news. I was fortunate in my life to have met His Royal Highness on several occasions and was presented a military decoration from him while I was a reservist.

He was someone who lived and saw history. Not many of them around.

Yes 99 is a great run.

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Originally posted by Ironbutt:

I wonder if they'll let that little bitch Harry back in the country for the funeral. Or if he even cares.

I guess he'll be there....

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Originally posted by 4x5:
My wife and I got hooked watching 'The Crown' on Netflix this year. Very fascinating story about Elizabeth and Phillip. We really had little idea of any of it.
RIP Prince Phillip.

I enjoyed it too and gave me a whole new insight into the royal family. I can't say how completely accurate it was and I'm sure there was artistic license, but worth watching.

RIP Prince Phillip

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Originally posted by 6guns:

I enjoyed it too and gave me a whole new insight into the royal family. I can't say how completely accurate it was and I'm sure there was artistic license, but worth watching.

RIP Prince Phillip

Same here. I know the UK press liked to take a lot of shots at him, particularly his Greek and German ancestry, I was somewhat confused or, saw those remarks as contradictory, since Corfu where he was born, was a British protectorate along with the rest of the Ionian islands after defeating Napoleon and then making major investments to the area. Marrying royalty from various houses and monarchy's is part of the 'great game' then, perhaps its English snobbery leaking out, finding any fault to worry-about.

He was the love of Elizabeth's eye, with all that's going on and what she's been through, she may not last much longer now that she's the last of her generation.

If I remember correctly, Tac and the Prince knew each other

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Originally posted by Jim Shugart:
Both he and Elizabeth were/are great-great-grandchildren of Queen Victoria.

(Edited to add a couple of 'greats'.)

So kissin' cousins then?

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Originally posted by Krazeehorse:

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Originally posted by Jim Shugart:
Both he and Elizabeth were/are great-great-grandchildren of Queen Victoria.

(Edited to add a couple of 'greats'.)

So kissin' cousins then?

Considering how many children Victoria married off to various European monarchies, I think the odds of a distant-cousin marriage at some point, was pretty great