To think Prince Phillip is great?

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I love this guy, AIBU?

I don't think his comments re Dunblane were wrong as such (it was such a ludicrous knee-jerk reaction after all)

A younger more 'savvy' celebrity/public figure would have realised however that openly expressing that view might not be such a good idea but I do think he came from a generation where it was OK to be more forthright.

Does he leave the younger generations gasping?
I don't think so.

He's brilliant,

Well you have a point there Primal :) They probably would think he was a hoot!

As do I.

I'm not sure that some of his comments weren't a bit misguided mind you but I doubt he cares about that at all :)

"I was also surprised at how relaxed he seemed around a couple of young children who were in the room - he played and chatted with them quite happily."

Why were you surprised? Wopuld you be even remotely surprised at any other father and grandfather being relaxed around a couple of young children?

I just cannot get my head round this "Oh [insert celebrity of choice] picked his child up when she fell over - what w wonderful caring individual he must be"

So.Prince Phillip talked to a child - what else has he done? He allowed the Dof E scheme to use his name - he's not out there actually supervising the expoditions, you know! That's down to people who do real work , in their own time for (often)no money at all. For decades.

That's why I admire him - he didn't change for anyone.
all the years of being called racist, bonkers, you name it - he just waved them away and carried on.
And he's been a fantastic supportive husband - I'd love to be married to him ( if he was 40 years younger )

Seeker- Is there anyone or anything you actually like?

Yep. Loads of people. WHy would you think otherwise? I don't know whether I like Prince Phillip or not - he may be a positive sweetie. But based on every single thing he has said and done publically, I don;t see how anyone who isn;t projecting thean image of their own grandfather onto him could think he was anything but a git.

yes lovely supportive husband, bullied son and made his life a misery and had a mistress for years that everyone knew about smashing bloke

I suppose I should have said that I was pleasantly surprised at how relaxed he was with the children.

Yes, most people are relaxed and at ease with their own young children and grandchildren, but many are not so relaxed with random children who run up, start hanging off them and bombarding them with random questions (myself included).

It is a quality I admire in others, no matter who they are.

Seeker - I'm sure it was you I was on a thread with a few days ago - you didn't like wuthering hights or heathcliff -

There are a lot of people in the world who aren't either Prince Phillip or Heathcliff...........

browneyesblue - I would expect anyone who is living a very good life at public expense to do a very good impression of being good with young children even if it doesn;t come naturally!

seeker - and you are absolutely entitled to your opinion. I just shared the impression I gained of him during the small amount of time I spent talking with him in an informal setting.

Love love love him.

Didn't see the interview but if he brought Lady Smug Pants down a peg or two so much the better

Being fair, the Indie did point out that Philip was the only one of his sibling group who fought the Nazis, rather than marrying them...

But there are millions of other people who fought the Nazis who haven't gone around making racist remarks ever since.

btw, I know plenty of 90 year olds who know full well that discrimination against minorities is wrong ? that's why many of them fought the ruddy Nazis in the first place. His age is not an excuse for his habit of making vile hateful remarks.

OK -nobody's come up with the three quotes shoing his intelligence, wit and concern for the envilronment.

How about 3 useful things he has done in his whole life?

1. Fought in the war and was mentioned in dispatches
2. Married and supported the Queen, who has represented this country

incredibly well through good times and bad

1. Founded and supported the Duke of Edinburgh award scheme

1. Fought in the war and was mentioned in dispatches

Like many other men of his generation who have not been kept in luxury at the tax payers expense ever since

1. Married and supported the Queen, who has represented this country

incredibly well through good times and bad How do you actually know that? He may have been an absolutely crap husband for all we know! Also, if he is a good husband,this is another case of famous people doing fairly normal things, like being a loyal partner, and getting massive credit for it.

1. Founded and supported the Duke of Edinburgh award scheme

Out there every weekend taking kids on expeditions, is he? All he did was allow his name to be used.

Someone like Moira Stewart would have had a better attitude and more respectful approach.

Fiona Bruce is too smug, and although at times I felt sorry for her - some of her questions were just rubbish.

The information about him is on the internet for one and all to access if they want to... just saying.

"Love him! Very clever and very witty and gloriously un-PC. Fabulous man!

As for you frilly - you sound like there's something badly amiss in your gene pool"

I don't usually bother to respond to nasty posts - but on this occasion I will. I think this is an offensive and directly abusive remark.

No wonder you are so fond of Prince Philip.

Seeker - you seem to miss the point about him fighting in the war the Britian, he didn't have to - he didn't become a British citizen until after the war (just before marrying the then Princess Elizabeth). He could have easily chosen not to - really, this wasn't his fight, it wasn't his country under attack, but he did anyway. I have respect for that in the same way I do for the Americans who chose to come to Britain and fight with us several years before the USA joined the war.

Not his war?????

Greece entered World War II on 28 October 1940, when the Italian army invaded. The German army invaded more successfully the folowing year.

We are talking here about the man who told Alfredo Stroessner, the murdering dictator of Paraguay that: "It's a pleasant change to be in a country that isn't ruled by its people."

Ah, the endearing old fellow that he is.