Duke of Edinburgh’s Road Accident

[SirGawain]

AIBU to ask why on earth is the Duke of Edinburgh driving at the age of 97.

That's very sobering Degrees bloody hell.

Good god, what a hateful way to speak of anyone.

Have there been droves of admirers on here, I haven't noticed any I must say!

Bloody bizarre how a nonagenarian tips a landy and escapes unscathed.....

Some sort of conspiracy now is it? He went in to hospital the next day apparently, I imagine that would be due to needing follow up of some sort. Why bizarre ? What's bizarre about it?

Good god, what a hateful way to speak of anyone

I think the very same comment was often heard to be made after the DofE's many 'gaffs' as his offensive comments are often dubbed in the pro royal press!

smother I know that carers are paid very little so yes she will need the money. That is common sense.

And he has a long history of saying racist things.

Whats bizarre about it?

Honestly most men twenty years his junior would not have survived that crash without significant injury. The man is over ninety and he didn't break a bone.
Its just bizarre.

Here is a few
“If you stay here much longer, you will go home with slitty eyes,” he remarked to 21-year-old British student Simon Kerby during a visit to China in 1986.
“I would like to go to Russia very much – although the bastards murdered half my family,” he said in 1967 when asked if he would like to visit the Soviet Union.
“You can’t have been here that long, you haven’t got a pot belly,” said to a British tourist in Budapest , Hungary in 1993.
“You managed not to get eaten then?“ he asked a British backpacker who trekked through Papua New Guinea in 1998.
“We don’t come here for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves,” he said about a trip to Canada in 1976.
“Aren’t most of you descended from pirates?” he asked residents of the Cayman Islands in 1994.
“Do you still throw spears at each other?” he asked Aboriginal leader William Brin at the Aboriginal Cultural Park in Queensland in 2002

crush What are you implying?

We pay him and he talks like this!

“A few years ago, everybody was saying we must have more leisure, everyone’s working too much. Now that everybody’s got more leisure time they are complaining they are unemployed,” he said during the recession in 1981.

“All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury,” he said talking about high taxes in 1963.

“We go into the red next year… I shall probably have to give up polo,” he moaned about the Royal Family’s finances on US television in 1969.

I have been connected with the DofE Award, the Duke has not been actively involved in recent years (he in his nineties) but in the past he did a great deal personally in all areas of the award. So wind your neck on commenting on something you have no knowledge of

So, by modern standards, he's racist, what the hell does that have to do with this accident? The level of vitriol on this thread is truly horrible.

I'm not implying anything other than the fact that everybody seems to have overlooked the part of this occurance that appears to me to be the most mentionable.

It is extraordinary that he was not significantly injured. By way of explanation I am an orthopaedic sister with years of experience of gerontology. This is not merely supposition on my part.
It is legitimately strange.

And how he regards and speaks to women.........so much to admire here.......

“British women can’t cook,” he told the Scottish Women’s Institute in 1961.

“You are a woman, aren’t you?” he asked woman in Kenya in 1984.

“People think there’s a rigid class system here, but dukes have even been known to marry chorus girls. Some have even married Americans,” he said in 2000.

“Do you have any knickers in that material?” he asked Scottish Tory leader Annabel Goldie in 2010, while they were admiring tartan made for the Pope.

“I don’t think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing,” he said confusingly in 1988

“Ah, so this is feminist corner then,“ he asked a group of female Labour MPs whose name badges read “Ms” at a Buckingham Palace drinks party in 2000.

. “I thought it was against the law these days for a woman to solicit,” he told a woman solicitor

. “You’re not wearing mink knickers, are you?” Philip ASKS fashion writer Serena French at a World Wildlife Fund gathering in 1993

. “I would be arrested if I unzipped that dress,” he remarked to a well-wisher during a Diamond Jubilee visit with the Queen to Bromley in Kent.

“Who do you sponge off?” he asked women at a community centre in Barking and Dagenham in 2015.

StoneofDestiny

Loads of people fought in the war, loads support their partners and work in dangerous difficult jobs as well as running voluntary groups, not just giving their names to it! All that without recognition, a squad of free enormous houses, servants on call and buckets load of taxpayers money given for the privilege.
He can't even be arsed to be courteous or civil on his foreign travels, meeting the public or attending events.
No, nothing at all to admire.

well said

Yes - a really really empathetic, sensitive, much to be admired person.....some more of his utterances to the bereaved and grieving.....

“[Smoke alarms are] a damn nuisance – I’ve got one in my bathroom and every time I run my bath the steam sets it off,” he said to a woman who lost two sons in a fire in 1998

“If a cricketer, for instance, suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, which he could do very easily, I mean, are you going to ban cricket bats?” he said talking about guns shortly after the Dunblane shootings in 1996

“People usually say that after a fire it is water damage that is the worst. We are still drying out Windsor Castle,” he told survivors of the Lockerbie bombings in 1993.

“The level of vitriol on this thread is truly horrible.”

Actually quite mild compared to DofE’s public statements on people from other countries. And rhat’s just his public statements

Incidentally, if his age is irrelevant when discussing his driving, then it must also be irrelevant when discussing his racism.

For all those saying Emma should have compensation, normally I would agree but honestly what she did was so heartless. Fingers crossed the press picks up Lulu's story especially as I see Emma is a carer now she shouldn't be trusted near vulnerable people.

Smother honestly I don't understand your comment

Did anyone mention his age in relation to his racism?

The 'victim' of the crash has done herself no favours talking to the press and clearly seeks 15 mins of fame and some £££. She has opened Pandora's' box now ..........you will undoubtedly live to regret it.

However - With the amount of money spent on top media advisors, PR gurus, legal eagles etc to 'protect' the Royals - they could have done a bit more to avoid the inevitable here. (Taxpayers should get a refund).

The papers are now full of how difficult it is to work with Philip, how everybody is scared of him, how he insists on doing things his way......................everything Ms Markle was being battered for in the press. She should be smiling at the irony now.

It is extraordinary that he was not significantly injured

Because the impact wasn't that great and the forces were absorbed by the car he was in. If you hit a landy at the right place its not that difficult to turn it over it does have a high centre of gravity unlike say a lot of ordinary saloon cars. I suspect that it was hit at the front whilst being angled one way say to the right now hit that from the front left it woul be an impact but the mass of the vehicle would absorb a lot of the energy and it didnt as best can be seen move that far i reckon it was rotated more then moved any real distance.

What causes the injury is how fast a body is accelerated or decelerated and the energy involved in that and how thats dissapated.

I don't think he absorbed that much at all as he didnt move that far or fast.

Still the police will investigate this one but I doubt the findings will be published somehow;!.

Sorry, you'll have to excuse me for not joining the public stoning, feel a bit queasy.