Well, any religion based around a living person will eventually have their god die.
Rastafarianism and Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia.
I’m glad he made it home from hospital to have his last days in the familiarity of home with his wife.
On the contrary, he didn’t retire until he was 96. He worked harder than most people 30 years younger than him.
Did he? Really?
I am not trying to dump on the guy but royalty working their ass off is an oxymoron.
Huh. Something for me to look up.
But I’d guess that most of the people who are really upset at his passing consider Liz to be their queen.
Well, except queen Elizabeth herself, of course. I imagine she’s pretty sad.
The Jewish tradition says one year.
It’s estimated that in the last 66 years, Prince Phillip did 22,000 solo engagements, at community events, charity events, commercial conferences and so on. He’s also believed to have made 5,500 speeches.
That averages 83 speaking events a year, and 333 solo engagements a year. That’s a pretty impressive workload, especially considering he was still doing it (albeit at a reduced pace) until just 3 years ago, when he turned 96.
That doesn’t count the engagements when he was accompanying the Queen, two steps behind.
Stats from this article:
The Commonwealth has 55 member states.
I think of a woman working 16 hours a day scrubbing floors as working your ass off and you put this up as working your ass off.
Not the same thing. At all. Not even close.
YMMV
Thanks. No idea why I typed 33.
And I mistyped myself. 54, not 55.
In the shorter term, she will be sitting shiva for a week.
There are hundreds of obituaries and articles about Prince Philip, but this is probably the one that’s most worth reading. Highly recommended.
“And when you are dead,” I said, “how do you think you will be remembered?”
“I’ve no idea,” he replied.
“No idea?” I persisted.
He looked gloomily about him and sighed (we were at Buckingham Palace, sitting in what is known as The Duke of Edinburgh’s Sunshine Room).
“If the media have anything to do with it, ‘cantankerous old sod’, I suppose.” He leant forward and looked me straight in the eye. “Isn’t that what I am? A cantankerous old sod. Isn’t that it?”
On that particular day, it was. The Duke had his moods. He could be irritable, contrary, pig-headed and ungiving.
But on the whole and as a rule – and I knew him for almost 50 years – he was the best of company: funny and surprisingly tolerant.
I would assume he would not use it out of respect for his father except for as you say when the full list of his titles is to be used and also when he is doing duties inherited from his father, such as charities.
I use my parent’s name out of respect for my parents. I’ve never heard that the royals were any different.
Yeah, I am not very close to how titles are used or anything, but it seems odd to me that it would be thought of as disrespectful to use a title inherited from your deceased father.
I’ve read most of the obit that I got phone alerts for. i guess the two that I’ve found most interesting were from The Economist and al Jazeera.
The al Jazeera one was surprisingly (to me) warm. I would have expected them to have a dimmer view of an embodiment of Empire. Of course, they did have a tag for this trending article: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2017/8/13/the-priceless-racism-of-the-duke-of-edinburgh
Reading about his life, I think it must have been very hard for him to always be the second fiddle.
From what I’ve read, he would have been much happier staying in the Navy.
There’s an AP story that some in the UK think the wall-to-wall coverage on the BBC is excessive, while others think it’s entirely appropriate. In short, they can’t make everyone happy. (Although surely those who want to avoid the coverage just have to change the channel or switch to streaming something. I’m visiting my parents who are complaining about the endless coverage of the Derek Chauvin trial in Minneapolis, but I haven’t noticed as I don’t watch the channels that offer all-day coverage.)