When Phillip's wife dies. I half expect the BBC will go into meltdown, perhaps we'll have blank screens for a month but for a wee picture of her to haunt us in our sleep.
My immediate reaction when I heard the BBC presenter on the BBC's news channel telling us of Phillip's death was a very loud, 'Good' one down who's next? I'm sorry if my words offend but I've never had much time for Phillip and when I read a bit more about him, in particular his WW2 service, I didn't find any reason to change my opinion of him. I read of how Phillip was "mentioned in dispatches" sure he was for directing a battery of search lights in a naval battle against the Italian Navy in the Med, I asked myself just what is so fantastic or brave about ordering the guys to point their search light this way or that? And if it wasn't Phillip doing this ordering it would have been any other seaman serving on the ship. Put it this way Phillip was just doing his job. What else were the Royal Navy ships going to do? Say awe it's too dark so we'll come back in the morning when we can see what we're doing?
I had read of Phillip at the age of eighteen writing to a lassie, a thirteen year old lassie, and today I noticed a photo of his meeting this thirteen year old in some gardens, what was his problem, did females nearer his own age reject him? Or maybe it was something to do with the fact his family had been more or less thrown out of Greece and he was, in the circles he frequented, pretty much a pauper. I guess to some extent it was a pretty good idea Phillip had, chat up a wee lassie who any other guy of his age would think of as a child and stay well clear of so far as chatting up went and engineer a relationship with a future Princess who was not from an exiled Royal family. Has me wondering now if Phillip had any other thirteen/fourteen or fifteen year olds in he might like to contact and preferably only those with financially secure families.
It might actually be something of a normal pattern of behaviour amongst Royal families, I'm sure I read of a six year old Scottish lassie being married to some King because it suited the Royal family of the time, pre 1745.
When Phillip's now widowed wife passes away the country will go into a such a lockdown Covid19 lockdowns will be looked on as good preparation, guess the only punter who'll be trying to keep that wee trace of a smile of his coupon with be Charles, perhaps it might be an idea to have an emergency resuscitation team on hand when Charles is told of his mother's passing as the shock/disbelief that he had actually lived long enough to be crowned as a King might be too much for his heart, and besides Charles having a fatal heart attack on hearing of his mother's passing would simply be too much for the BBC to cope and it would follow him with its own corporation heart attack.
Just another thought as it crosses my mind, how would any parent react to an eighteen year of man chatting up their thirteen year old daughter? How would a parent meeting their thirteen year old daughter at the school gates react if they saw a bunch of eighteen year old guys eyeing up young second year student girls as they left school? Was the Queen Mother happy about this exiled Greek guy chatting up her daughter? Would the Queen Mother have been happy to leave a young daughter or grand daughter alone in the company of a, now deceased, charity/BBC presenter? Naw I doubt she would, so why did the Queen Mother and her husband the King feel it right to have Phillip courting (to put it politely, there are other more modern terms that could be applied) their thirteen year old daughter?
Oh and another thing, yes Phillip's marriage to his wife did last seventy three years, well for one thing he was never going to divorce her, he couldn't afford to.
