Prince Philip like you've never seen him before!

After being educated in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom, he joined the British Royal Navy in 1939, aged 18. From July 1939, he began corresponding with the then thirteen-year-old Princess Elizabeth, whom he had first met in 1934.

least weird thing i've heard about this fellow

Had his pick of navies to serve in tbf.

PM Boris Johnson has cancelled plans to drink a pint on Monday 12 April, as pub gardens are allowed to re-open, following the death of Prince Philip.

— Aubrey Allegretti (@breeallegretti) April 9, 2021

pour one out

What kind of a terrible person do you have to be for even Boris to refuse to raise a glass in your memory?

Checking my Facebook page, literally one person has posted about this, an Australian woman I work with. And no-one has replied to her yet or liked her post.

Good chance for Kieth to set down clear lines of distinction.

By insisting on a month of national mourning, a state funeral and the banning of the wearing of tartan in Scotland.

lol bbc4 have decided to pay tribute by showing absolutely nothing this evening , i was gonna tape the england game, but apparently watching football or old totp would be too disrespectful a choice to be given to license payers.

What does the royal family do for a living and why do n-words care about them? I want to care about mediocre white folks with teeth like xvxvx if it's fun. It looks fun. But I need directions.

— Kiese Makeba Laymon (@KieseLaymon) April 9, 2021

kunt is right in there already, it's not as good as his Michael Jackson one

https://kuntandthegang.bandcamp.com/track/phil-im-missing-you-a-tribute-to-prince-philip

Civil servants and Ministers involved in ceremonial or other public facing events associated with the demise should wear appropriate mourning dress. This includes: dark coat, suit, or day dress; a dark hat and gloves are optional if appropriate for the weather; or dark lounge suit with black tie; dark overcoat if appropriate for the weather.

wtf programmes on BBC4 suspended?!?!? Privatize the BBC!!!!

Don’t they have approximately 26455374 documentaries on the Royal Family to fall back upon at times like these?

So what have? A black panel suitably descriptive?

(I'd look myself but it's all gogglebox here)

It's Dr Terror's House of Horrors for me.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/contact/death-duke-of-edinburgh-tv-coverage/#/Notification

they've already made a page for you to complain about excess coverage

Departments communicating directly with the Royal Household should use black-edged stationery during the period of National Mourning on matters relating to demise. All other Government communications should be conducted in the usual format.

Sad that my bougie flats fb feed* has stopped shagging the royals once another woman and myself talked about how great his racism and teaching his kid to be a kiddie fiddler is. Where is the patriotism?

*Same feed basically accused me of being a terrorist last week for not loving the flag and tried to block me until they noticed they all like my dog

it always helps to have a handsome doggie when you are a friend of the terrorists

ffs I was just enjoying some Beethoven on R3 and then was hit with: "I wonder how many composers Prince Phillip met in his lifetime". Couldn't care less if he had a threesome with Winifred Wagner and Richard Strauss.

This is the best take.

The fun thing about the Duke of Edinburgh was the fact that he came from the great tribe of the Perhapsburgs, Europe's peripatetic aristocracy: always hunting down a throne, marrying it's own money, declaring eternal loyalty to whichever perch on which it can feather a nest>

— jamie k (@jkbloodtreasure) April 9, 2021

"music to reflect Prince Phillip's love of the sea"

there is no escape from this ..anywhere.

it has been ridiculous, who wants this?

BBC Four was going to show an England Women’s international football match tonight, but has instead cancelled all programming. The BBC will however still show the match but it’ll be hidden away as online iplayer stream and not on a traditional channel as a... show of respect?

— Jim Waterson (@jimwaterson) April 9, 2021

I don't know shit about the royal family but I think it's hilarious that you all apparently hated this dude so much

Just want to let all british ilxors know that when it comes to hating the royal family, we Americans may be amateurs, but it is still a part of our birthright, just as it is a part of yours. Cheering you on to the day when "this sceptred isle" loses its scepter holders for good.

FP'd you for racism

comrade aimless preparing the guillotine

if the england mens team had an international last night that the bbc had the rights to i'm gonna guess that they wouldn't have shunted it online.

it wasn't just that he was an old bigot, it was that he weaponised racist slurs in an attempt to seem relatable and friendly, and it shows so much contempt for "common" people that he thought the best way to appear personable and likeable was to talk like this to them. It hurts my head to think about how many vile comments he made that didn't come out, and yet he continued to live a life of luxury to the age of 99. Meanwhile 127,000 people (mostly from structurally disadvantaged sections of society) have died in the past year due the pandemic, with 1000 deaths in a day becoming background noise, and this bastard is going to get eight days of official mourning. It's sickening.

no word of a lie

at first i thought it was the pedo one and was v impressed by the team acting for ghislaine maxwell's defence

relieved to learn that charles is now duke of edinburgh; wouldn’t want them to be dukeless

there should have been a contest with wales, cambridge and sussex forced to duke it out

Radio 3 normal schedule suspended – nothing but “sequences of music” all day. This is absurd, pathetic

— Robert Hanks (@RobertHanks) April 10, 2021

i have reluctantly concluded that it is imperative that the queen never dies because i don’t think i will be able to handle life in the uk for quite some time afterwards

Doing a racism to honour a racist

"He was always two steps behind. Like an Indian Bride as they say"

Who the hell is "they" in this scenario other than Andrew Marr? pic.twitter.com/dtUuaThDEp

— Harry Kind (@harrykind) April 9, 2021

i have reluctantly concluded that it is imperative that the queen never dies

That's fightin' talk. Anyway some cast list in Dr. Terror's House of Horrors: Donald Sutherland, Alan 'Fluff' Freeman, Roy Castle, Kenny Lynch, Tubby Hayes(!)

Tubby Hayes was a man of many talents.. but I didn't know he did acting as well.

He didn't actually have any lines, he just had to blow some sax (and flute!) and pal about with Roy Castle a bit. It's a bit like Graham Bond showing up in "That'll Be the Day", a nice bit of casting!

I hadn't considered that BBC4 going off the air would lead to an influx of viewers to Talking Pictures TV, thank you Prince Philip!

Donald Sutherland, Alan 'Fluff' Freeman, Roy Castle, Kenny Lynch, Tubby Hayes

Donald the last man standing! He's even outlived the Pickled Prince Consort. Will he outlast the Queen herself?

The question now is how long will they keep this going for - will Line Of Duty be affected? 🤔

— Angus Teee (@AngusTeee) April 10, 2021

I motion that LOD is boycotted this week

Why the fuck are all the leftists in my timeline and on ILX obsessed with a basic cop show

I'm not, I just motion that it's boycotted

Oh bless you and your delightfully broken aesthetic sense imago

there's only one thing I'm interested in and that is watching basic coppers

Basic copper, is that like pig iron?