£360k to Phillip!

[BarbieBunches]

He got paid £360k for wandering around the world being a racist!!! Fuck me they truly do milk the cow don’t they 😳.

Camilla is not going to be paid - how will she get by? 🙄

Why do you say Harry is 'the worst racist of all'? And what makes Philip, less of a racist despite saying many more racist things? Harry acknowledged he had work to do, and still does. Did Philip address his many racist comments in a similar way? I don;t think so.

He didn't;t make childish remarks, he made multiple racist remarks.

@Zippedydodah what facts did I get wrong?

He was a racist 🤷‍♀️. I’m criticising the institution that pays that kind of money to someone already living in absolute luxury.

A)Almost anyone born in Europe in 1922 would have made similar remarks, including your great grandparents no doubt. Doesn't excuse them, but he was a product of his time. He just was in public an awful lot longer because he lived so long. I think back to 70s sitcoms and cringe at the casual racism of shows like 'it ain't half hot mum' and that one where the black man moved next door, shock horror. It was everywhere. Philip was by no means an exceptional person in terms of his attitude to difference. And if you read his list of racist comments, it includes statements like "British women can't cook" and a comment about Scottish people drinking too much, plus a comment about (white) Hungarians etc.

B) he retired at 95 years of age. That means he worked 30 extra years compared with Joe Public. And everybody's state retirement money is paid by my taxes.

@AvaCallanach my grandad didn’t live in the lap of luxury from the public purse 🙄. He wasn’t a stupid man - I’m sure he could have curtailed his rudeness if he’d really wanted to. Jesus Christ 🙄.

What nonsense

The ‘royals’ do not work , and we can prove this by pointing out that the queen at 96 while being treated for cancer , was ‘working’ .

1. She clearly wasn’t doing anything of the kind which raises the more important question of who exactly was acting as unelected head of state in her place .
2. Phil continued to rack in his taxpayer funded 360K after his so called ‘retirement’ . He didn’t work and he didn’t reduce what he took from the state even when the pretence of ‘work ‘ was stopped .

why did he continue to receive the same 360k and not a penny less ?

would anyone want their life - all the money in the world couldn't pay me to be a member of the royal family

Well luckily for you , no matter what your skill or brilliance only a Windsor dullard can be our unelected head of state ( for now )

And if it’s so onerous and burdensome how come only Harry has left ? The rest of them cling like leeches

Almost anyone born in Europe in 1922 would have made similar remarks,

Absolutely untrue, how insulting to say everyone born around then was a racist. Thank god it wasn't the case. My grandparents were British born around that time, earlier in Grandpa's case and my Dh's grandma is still alive, born same year as the Queen. None of them said things like Philip did, ever!

you can marry in - Kate managed it

Hear Hear.

I agree with this

Yeah, you still don't understand the meaning of the word "grifter".

Camilla will not be receiving the same allowance-

https://news.sky.com/story/queen-will-not-receive-360-000-allowance-from-parliament-given-to-prince-philip-12920764

I'm surprised that you're surprised at this really.

Did you really not know that the royal family are well off ?

I saw Phillip a couple of days ago walking past my house. He waved to DH and DS, who had just go into our car outside, and they were delighted!

We live in a Duchy of Cornwall owned new town, and he visits a few times a year and does a a walk around.

I felt really sorry for him actually, despite the wealth, as he just had people all around him, all the time, taking photos on phones (particularly children, I’ve seen a comic ones taken from a low height!)

He was so gracious about it, and shook hands with children, got in photos, waved to everyone who passed… chatted to workmen on site, acted interested in every new shop and person he met … and this was a really low key visit as they aren’t publicly announced in advance, he just appears.

I know he is ridiculously rich and no-one needs that much money (and we all had to pay an extra yearly fee to the Duchy, on top of the high council tax here, which can be a sore point!)

But at the same time, that day, when I saw him being crowded in the street and being followed all the way around by various teenagers and families with phones, and all the attention and his every move being monitored… I wouldn’t have wanted to be him for a minute.

I thought about what the big official engagements must be like, and that this is his whole life, with no privacy if he wants to go out anywhere. He didn’t choose it either, not like a celebrity who worked hard to get famous, he was just born with this responsibility already on him.

Oh, I am talking about Charles 😂😂 completely ignore me please, have just woken up 🙈

😂😂

I was thinking... now this is a strange post!

I have no sympathy to be honest. The RF have a choice of 27 castles, estates, properties to be private at if they want!

Think of Balmoral 50,000 acres, Sandringham 20,000 acres, Buck House 775 rooms! And then Highgrove where he can be as private as he could ever want on a beautiful estate he designed himself!

However, glad to hear he engaged with everyone

@Roussette - I’m blaming menopausal brain fog 🙈😂

He was very pleasant though.

Oh you've fallen for the spin.

It's marketing genius to have a family living in the lap of luxury, multiple castles and palaces, barely doing anything and all at our expense, yet we aren't angry or jealous or think how lucky they are. No, they've actually convinced us that not only should we be grateful but that their lives are so awful we should also pity them.

Their lives are bloody fantastic.

Quite right. He was forced to quit the Navy when Elizabeth inherited the throne. He was a fantastic naval officer and was actually commanding a ship when only 22 during WWII.

"He was commanding a ship when he was 22....."

There's an interview with him, possibly on Youtube, not just 3 minutes, more like 30, about his war service. It might have been made with an ITV interviewer. He was in the Mediterranean and the Baltic Sea iirc, and then off Japan when his ship took on board men who had survived being prisoners of war. Later in his life he was asked if he'd been to Japan and he diplomatically glossed over the circumstances.

Completely agree @BarbieBunches - we’ll said.

I’m sure lots of us would enjoy being paid over £300k a year pension but for myself as a nurse - that ain’t happening 😅. I’m not buying the argument of poor old Philip missing his true calling. He seems to have done just fine - thanks very much.

My point was, that Philip would far far FAR rather have been able to work in his field and earn his own money

Really? So why did he marry a future Queen? Why did he accept this money when he had no need for it? I don't buy the narrative that he did us some huge favour, he himself said anyone can cut ribbons and walk about. He accepted this money even when he was not 'working' and well past the age he was doing anything like what they did when they were younger. He should not have accepted this money, regardless of whatever he perceived he gave up 'for the public'.

yes exactly. He had no need for this money and its quite obscene when you compare it to people like yourself who actually are doing something for the public that's hard work.