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Always thought his brother Lord Mountbatten was the last limey of any importance with a set. The Irish certainly seemed to think so.
These are my opinions, feel free to disagree.
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So can the Queen shack up w a rap artist now?
That'll upstage that Markle gal.
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Good. One less evil globalist on the planet.
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Always thought his brother Lord Mountbatten was the last limey of any importance with a set. The Irish certainly seemed to think so. Yup!
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Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
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I'll just leave this ... Phil says
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Founder
Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
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Always thought his brother Lord Mountbatten was the last limey of any importance with a set. The Irish certainly seemed to think so. Yup! Uncle actually IIRC. Had two ships sunk out from underneath him, and ended up as maybe the best British General Officer in WWII for his work as CIC in SE Asia. Which is a pretty neat accomplishment for a Naval Officer from Germany.
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Always thought his brother Lord Mountbatten was the last limey of any importance with a set. The Irish certainly seemed to think so. Yup! Uncle actually IIRC. Had two ships sunk out from underneath him, and ended up as maybe the best British General Officer in WWII for his work as CIC in SE Asia. Which is a pretty neat accomplishment for a Naval Officer from Germany. Thanks for correction. Hence my comment. I thought they were more Greek?
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Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
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He served his country in the military, more than most of our politicians do.
Rest in piece.
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He served his country in the military, more than most of our politicians do.
Rest in piece. After his little run in with the IRA, more like rest in pieces. Lord Mountbatten that is! 😉
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Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
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Yep, the British royals tend to be long lived. All the infant blood they drink. LOL. But seriously, RIP. He seemed a decent royal type. The very best medical care would help, and not flogging their bodies to pieces earning a crust wouldn't hurt either. That dude was busier'n hell up till a few years ago.
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He served his country in the military, more than most of our politicians do.
Rest in piece. After his little run in with the IRA, more like rest in pieces. Lord Mountbatten that is! 😉 I am surprised he survived the partition of India to tell you the truth.
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He served his country in the military, more than most of our politicians do.
Rest in piece. After his little run in with the IRA, more like rest in pieces. Lord Mountbatten that is! 😉 I am surprised he survived the partition of India to tell you the truth. That made him fewer friends.
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Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
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Thanks for correction. Hence my comment. I thought they were more Greek?
IIRC Mountbatten was related to both Elizabeth and Phillip, so I guess they were related to each other as well, which is probably why Charles' eyes are so close together. The Battenbergs changed their name to Mountbatten and then (at least Phillip) again to Windsor to clean the kraut off of themselves for their subjects. Phillip was from some branch that had wandered off and intermarried with Greece at some point. Just looked it up, Mounbatten's sister married into the Greek royal family. Between Queen Victoria and there it was pretty much Deutschland Uber Alles.
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Thanks Rufus. Knew the Boche connection. Couldn’t remember where the greek blood came from.
Hemophilia marches on!!
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Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
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Philip liked to hunt, or shoot as they call it. I read that the queen raised and trained labrador retrievers. She didn't hunt so they'd go out together. She'd work the dogs and he'd do the shooting. When a dog returned a cripple, she'd personally wring it's neck with her queenly hands. I wonder if Kate or Meghan would do that.
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
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The full list of titles is: [i]"His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Earl of Merioneth, Baron Greenwich, Royal Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, Extra Knight of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, Member of the Order of Merit, Grand Master and First and Principal Knight Grand Cross of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Knight of the Order of Australia, Additional Member of the Order of New Zealand, Extra Companion of the Queen’s Service Order, Royal Chief of the Order of Logohu, Extraordinary Companion of the Order of Canada, Extraordinary Commander of the Order of Military Merit, Lord of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council, Privy Councillor of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada, Personal Aide-de-Camp to Her Majesty, Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom.
Yo bitch, 250 years ago we kicked your ass.
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They came back and Ol’ Hickory gave em a second dose of whoop azz.
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Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
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..., Extra Companion of the Queen’s Service Order,... Not sure but that sounds like a very proper way of saying sloppy seconds...
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Interesting education and military service:
In 1933, he was sent to Schule Schloss Salem in southern Germany, which was run by educational pioneer Kurt Hahn. But within months, Hahn, who was Jewish, was forced to flee Nazi persecution.
Seafaring tradition
Hahn moved to Scotland where he founded Gordonstoun school, to which the prince transferred after only two terms in Germany.
Gordonstoun's Spartan regime, with its emphasis on self-reliance, was the ideal environment for a teenage boy who, separated from his parents, felt very much on his own.
With war looming, Prince Philip decided on a military career. He wanted to join the Royal Air Force but his mother's family had a seafaring tradition and he became a cadet at the Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth.
While there he was delegated to escort the two young princesses, Elizabeth and Margaret, while King George VI and Queen Elizabeth toured the college.
According to witnesses, Prince Philip showed off a great deal. But the meeting made a deep impression on the 13-year-old Princess Elizabeth.
Philip quickly proved himself an outstanding prospect, passing out at the top of his class in January 1940 and seeing military action for the first time in the Indian Ocean.
He transferred to the battleship HMS Valiant in the Mediterranean Fleet, where he was mentioned in dispatches for his part in the Battle of Cape Matapan in 1941.
As the officer in charge of the ship's searchlights, he played a crucial role in this decisive night action.
"I found another ship and it lit up the middle part of it, whereupon it practically disappeared instantly under a salvo of 15in shells at point-blank range," he told BBC Radio 4 in 2014.
By October 1942, he was one of the youngest first lieutenants in the Royal Navy, serving on board the destroyer HMS Wallace. A great man has passed. God Bless him and the Queen. Edited to add, easy to discern the classless here...
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