I wanted Prince Philip to make it to 100 to get a letter from The Queen

[JackieWeaverHandforthCouncil]

Losing your DH after such a long marriage must feel like losing an organ. RIP.

I shouldn’t have looked on Twitter there’s some truly disgusting people in this world 🤮

How sad.

Such sad news. RIP Philip.

Not unexpected but very sad all the same. He led a remarkable life and achieved much that went un-noticed because he was the Queens husband first and foremost.

He was a super character. I too wanted him to make it to 100 to receive the card from his own wife. RIP Sir.

He was probably one of the only living people who could be totally candid and relaxed with her. Is there anyone alive now who would call her Lilibet or Elizabeth?

I agree about the "candid and relaxed" thing - yet another aspect of the Queen's loss - but Princess Alexandra's still around and I believe it's said they're close?

Plus I think there's at least one of her bridesmaids/lifelong friends still living?

I think of Billy Connolly joking about her being in bed with the blanket pulled up saying look Philip I am a stamp

😲 Did Billy Connolly do that? I hope Russell Howard didn't steal it from him in that case!

@JensonsAcolyte

I was in the car and had to pull over. Really weird, I’m not a royalist at all but I got a bit choked up.

RIP.

When someone elderly dies it can hit you or out of the blue

He was always the most attractive one in the family.

@Puzzledandpissedoff

He was probably one of the only living people who could be totally candid and relaxed with her. Is there anyone alive now who would call her Lilibet or Elizabeth?

I agree about the "candid and relaxed" thing - yet another aspect of the Queen's loss - but Princess Alexandra's still around and I believe it's said they're close?

Plus I think there's at least one of her bridesmaids/lifelong friends still living?

Maybe Lady Glennconnor?

@littlepeas

I know they have the obituaries ready and said do in my post, it’s the speed of it appearing I find in poor taste. It really wasn’t very long ago we’d have had to wait until tomorrow’s papers. Why does everything have to be instantaneous?

I feel the same. Literally minutes after the announcement the obituary was being shown.

Maybe Lady Glennconnor?

That's the one!!

I just looked it up and she, Princess Alexandra and Lady Pamela Hicks are the only bridesmaids still with us - though probably there are some other personal friends left too?

I wouldn't have wanted him to suffer on, ill and in pain, but I did hope he might make it to his 100th Birthday, only because I think with their sense of humour, it would have tickled them both pink, for the Queen to have sent the "telegram" to him.

RIP HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

Such sad news. I feel very sad for the Queen. He was a war hero too remember. RIP Phillip.

It really wasn’t very long ago we’d have had to wait until tomorrow’s papers. Why does everything have to be instantaneous?

It really was a long time ago we had to wait for that.

As has been said, the timing of releasing information and what they can broadcast is set by the Palace.

Absolutely nothing wrong with having obits ready to go and broadcasting them when a death is announced.

Wonder how long his funeral has been planned for? . I read yesterday the Queen Mother's had been planned for 22 years before she actually died!

He died?!

I wasn’t surprised by the news, as he recently spent a month in hospital, so his health clearly wasn’t good and he was obviously very elderly at 99.

I’m sorry he didn’t make it to 100 to receive his telegram from his wife the Queen, but he lived a very long life, a ‘good innings’ as some like to say.

@GhoulWithADragonTattoo

RIP Prince Phillip. I just hope the Queen doesn’t die of a broken heart as I do think she adored him.

I would think that dying of old age is significantly more likely.

And she does have a job, large extended family and plenty of people around her to make it considerably less likely that she fails to eat or take care of her health; anecdotally, it's more common for elderly men to die shortly after losing their wives rather than the reverse, partly because the women tend to have wider social connections and responsibilities.

As an extra, it's always said that she believes in duty first and foremost - I do not think that somebody who believes that would be as prone to 'giving up', as she would believe it is necessary for her to carry on because it's her responsibility to do so. As did many women who lost their husbands much younger, particularly in wartime, something she would absolutely have been in agreement with - it wouldn't be socially acceptable for somebody to do anything but carry on, just as she and her mother had to do when her father died.

NeverDropYourMoonCup

I agree, especially as her mother lived on for 50 years after her husband died, that’s the example she’ll want to follow now.

Condolences to the family.

Whatever one may have thought about Price Philip, his early life sounds awful. I've just read one article which said 'as his family disintegrated'... his mum entering an asylum; his dad heading off with a mistress; his sisters scattered to Nazi Germany. It must have been very lonely for him.

Given his age, and the fact he's been unwell lately, this shouldn't be unexpected news - but there was still a part of me that thought he would go on and on.

My heart goes out to the Queen and the royal family.