Mine does. I’m not sure how many people actually work 16 hours a day 5 days a week, but as long as the pay was the same, I’d personally rather do manual labor for 10 hours a day as long as it is not in the hot sun than go to more than one social event a day where I’d be the center of attention and have to watch my words. Not to mention being occasionally skewered in the press. Lauds from the press would get old after awhile but attacks would never stop being tiresome.
I don’t either. My personal theory is that it is easy to make once you have the infrastructure: you just have to say things while you’re recording and then you can upload once you have it right, instead of thinking of what to say, typing it, uploading it, and formatting it.
But I definitely prefer the written word and other than ease of production I can’t think of why they’d do it. It can’t be revenue because videos are easier to link to without ads, whereas you have a chance of seeing an ad if you actually go to the full web page with text.
Probably, but the Navy wasn’t his first choice. He always wanted to join the Air Force.
He still managed to get a pilot’s licence and accumulate nearly 6,000 hours of flying over the years anyway.
Which he passed down the generations. Charles and Andrew both flew as did William and Harry.
Change the channel? That’s a laugh. Yesterday all five major channels, including both BBC channels, were showing Prince Phillip news (still dead). The minor BBC channels were off and BBC radio was playing their various ideas of solemn music. I don’t have Netflix etc so that left a load of repeats and dross. And the weather was shit and I’m a bit unwell so I was relying on a couple of my usual programs for distraction and relaxation.
Thankfully Saturday night programming is back to normal. Back when Diana died we had only five channels and no streaming. It was a nightmare! I saw a report on the effect on mental health. They said that it caused people’s mental health to worsen in two ways. First the continual reference to death and mourning (of course!). Secondly the loss of regular programming that people. Whether it’s sport, soap or game shows most TV watchers have programmes they rely on to decompress.
Consequently they scaled things back when the Queen Mum died and as people have said got a lot of push back for disrespect which led to where we are now.
In the United States on September 11 2001, I know my mother turned to The Game Show Network for a break from the endless coverage.
By the way, imagine what it’s going to be like when the queen herself passes.
Fortunately for me, i live in America. But i can only imagine. Maybe now is a good time to invest in Netflix.
I’m sure it didn’t do him any favors. I mean, how would anyone cope if they had a job like that and were extremely good at it, and they were forced to quit because their parents wanted them to go do family stuff all the time?
I suspect something similar went on with Prince Harry as well- I don’t know if he’d have been a General, but from all accounts, he was a competent and respected officer in the British Army, and was basically forced to give that up for family stuff, even though there’s about zero chance he’d actually be King.
The whole royalty thing seems very much like a gilded cage these days; none of them seem to be free to pursue what they want to do with their lives, or who they want to do it with. It’s not surprising that the ones who aren’t in line for the throne tend to flame out somehow- they’re bound by all the bullshit, but don’t get the ultimate payoff for it.
This. Precisely.
I sent a complaint … first time ever !
Just what i said to my gf !
Although, other cable stations such as Food Network, HGTV, Lifetime and QVC, to name a few, stopped showing any programming at all.
As someone who has, myself, been widowed I have sympathy for Elizabeth of Windsor as a fellow human being.
For the rest - I have no opinion.
May Phillip rest in peace.
I just saw this FWIW:
Exactly as would be expected of a religion. No big surprise.
Basically every “prince(ss)” is expected to have their main job be doing “royal family” work once they complete their education and/or a tour of duty. The Queen can’t be everywhere but a dozen close relatives from cousins to children to grandchildren can be at a dozen events (and besides there are so many “Royal ____” patronages to fill… we don’t want The Royal Guild of Shrubbers to be missing a warm body with a HRH as a figurehead, do we?)
Modern British royals can marry whoever they want to, but if they’re anywhere close to the line they still “have” to do so sooner rather than later, in some sort of big-deal public event, then hurry up and pump out “issue”, and the Court and the media still get to get all up in their grill over how they did it wrong.
A brief word from the Prince of Wales: Prince Charles thanks public for condolences after death of his 'dear papa'
Tolerant of what?! Does this term have a different nuance in Britain?
Maybe I’m mis-reading but it makes the glowing words sound like damning with faint praise: “Best thing I can say about the guy is he’s not a complete racist!”
… am I missing something?
Probably not - certainly by modern terms Phillip was abrasive and… other words. Then again, he was the product of a century ago, at which time he was probably considered middle-of-the-road.
Tolerant of different views and opinions in general. He’s not talking about racial tolerance, he’s saying that Philip didn’t assume that his opinions were necessarily right and other people’s were necessarily wrong.
I don’t think he was a racist, though sometimes his attempts at humour using national and racial stereotypes were a bit off.
Andrew did 22 years of active service in the Navy. That’s a full career for most. I’m not so sure Harry was forced to leave the military. He spent 10 years in his uncle in a similar position was in for more than double that.