Prince Philip’s mustard prank

[Dogmatix34]

I don’t have any very strong feelings about the Royal family except to find it all a bit outdated but I found this story a real sign of how out of touch they are. The thought of my grandfather encouraging me to squirt mustard on to his ceiling! Since he a) wouldn’t have an army of cleaners to clear it up b) only had a small number of rooms to go in to and would not have wanted disgusting mustard all over the place c) didn’t have incredibly high ceilings where perhaps you wouldn’t have noticed.
I could understand if it was squirting mustard outside or maybe on clothes that could be washed but I found that story really jarring. They don’t need to be house proud, they haven’t worked for what they have and have so much.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58628865

I agree. That was our thoughts too. It's not a funny story. It's a story about a horrible person who thinks it's funny almost because it makes more work for others.

I thought exactly the same thing! They are so out of touch! It has made me really cross.

It is rather like Kate talking about all the fun art and baking during lockdown. She certainly wasn’t cleaning all that up either.

Rubbish. My Dad used to start food fights with peas launched off spoons. He grew up incredibly poor in a tenement with no money for lighting or coal.

It's not about money or cleaners or entitlement, it's any humour and entertaining the grandkids.

Have you never had fun while making a mess?

Christ, chill out. It’s a fun game.

I agree with you OP, someone’s got to clean all that lot up with ladders and special cleaning agents as it’s a Grade 1* building” and secondly, I thought Prince Philip was an environmentalist? You can’t squeeze a glass jar. That joke had to happen with a plastic bottle.

@PinkFootstool

Rubbish. My Dad used to start food fights with peas launched off spoons. He grew up incredibly poor in a tenement with no money for lighting or coal.

It's not about money or cleaners or entitlement, it's any humour and entertaining the grandkids.

Have you never had fun while making a mess?

This is my take on it. We have never been scared to make a mess. We prefer fun. No privilege here either. Live in a run down ex council house on a very low income due to circumstances.

@SandlakeRd

I thought exactly the same thing! They are so out of touch! It has made me really cross.

It is rather like Kate talking about all the fun art and baking during lockdown. She certainly wasn’t cleaning all that up either.

Wasn’t she? Prove it.

Not even a remotely funny prank, either

Give it a rest, someone always has to find fault with every single thing the Royals do

There’s mess and mess. I imagine the ceilings would have needed repainting after that game.

You can’t squeeze a glass jar. That joke had to happen with a plastic bottle.

Nobody said it was a jar

What does this comment even mean?

It was a tube of mustard. A tube.

@seaandsandcastles

Christ, chill out. It’s a fun game.

I can think of better ways to have 'fun'

Peas would be far easier to clean than mustard from the high ceilings of a palace.

Obviously if you are cleaning it up then you can do whatever you like. However given that they have an army of servants and don’t lift a finger at the best of times it just feels really disrespectful to make a hard to clean mess.

@thereisonlyoneofme

Give it a rest, someone always has to find fault with every single thing the Royals do

Probably because they fuck up so much

The Royal Family preach on and on about the environment and climate change while taking private jets etc etc. Prince Charles won’t have plastic at Highgrove. He makes the gardeners saw off any plastic handles on garden tools and refit them with wooden handles. It’s in the Highgrove book. So why do they have plastic bottles for mustard?

Ffs what do you want them to do. Just sit on the throne looking serene. By the way we relatively regularly have food fights. We are better off than most and we all help clean it up afterwards. Lighten up.

@Billlius

The Royal Family preach on and on about the environment and climate change while taking private jets etc etc. Prince Charles won’t have plastic at Highgrove. He makes the gardeners saw off any plastic handles on garden tools and refit them with wooden handles. It’s in the Highgrove book. So why do they have plastic bottles for mustard?

Why do you keep saying plastic bottles?

TUBE. It was a TUBE.

You can't just change it to suit your environmental angle!

I’m normally a massive royalist, but I didn’t like hearing this story. You can tell he didn’t have to clean up after himself. My nan would have had a fit if grandad squirted mustard everywhere regardless of how much it made the grandkids laugh. Definitely shows he was out of touch with the normal people.

@Billlius

The Royal Family preach on and on about the environment and climate change while taking private jets etc etc. Prince Charles won’t have plastic at Highgrove. He makes the gardeners saw off any plastic handles on garden tools and refit them with wooden handles. It’s in the Highgrove book. So why do they have plastic bottles for mustard?

It’s that type of behaviour that makes me cross. They make decisions and do stuff without having to deal with the reality of it. I wonder if Charles would be so anti plastic handles if he was doing the sawing and re fitting. Just like would Phillip find so much fun in mustard if he was up the ladder afterwards cleaning it off?

@PinkFootstool

Rubbish. My Dad used to start food fights with peas launched off spoons. He grew up incredibly poor in a tenement with no money for lighting or coal.

It's not about money or cleaners or entitlement, it's any humour and entertaining the grandkids.

Have you never had fun while making a mess?

Cleaning mustard stains of a high ceiling in a listed building is hardly the same as picking up a few peas off the floor is it?

Sounds like he just wanted to be a fun grandad. Let's not dissect everything they do

It’s easy to be po faced about a prank you don’t like, I guess. But it’s a typical enough GrandPa type prank. Not everything has to be self righteous, surely.

Really? My dad used to get up to all sorts of pranks with his grandchildren much to my mum's disgust causing chaos.

It's nice seeing an insight into a "normal" family life

It was at a BBQ. So outside somewhere I’d imagine. Not in a palace. Probably on a canvas tent awning or something.

Sounds like a funny prank to play on his grandkids.

What is the tube made out of?