OK… The man is notorious for not giving a flying f**k, in the best style of the honey badger; he apparently collects gaffes like other people collect stamps; he is a living god for some Vanuatu islanders; at 97 years of age he still drives himself, and a few days ago he was in a serious car crash … and he got out of it without a scratch.
Has anybody checked whether he carries a humongous sword or something? Good grief…
Yeah, and the person he crashed into is not happy
Wait, what? Who does he think he is? Does he own the road? Oh, wait, maybe he does.
(Them kooky royals!)
Doesn’t he have lots of security/bodyguards? You would think they would drive.
Do they handle translating straight up? Whole article is in MPH and uses yards, etc.
Only EU Remain folk use metric. Real Brits use imperial! 
I’ve read the Queen and the Prince both love to drive.
About the Queen driving, I love this story about how she freaked out, probably on purpose, the crown prince(later king) of Saudi Arabia. I can’t help but thinking she was making a point about women’s rights.
Hey, maybe he is of Greek origin and his mom dunked him into holy water…
Until recently she did much of her own wrenching. She learned as a lorry driver in WWII.
He drove out of a minor road on to a main road without bothering to notice whether it was safe to do so. It might be fair to call that “driving without due care and attention” at least. Or driving dangerously.
I see no concern in your post for the two women and a baby who were in the other car.
One women has only some cuts, the baby is unhurt, and one of the women has a broken wrist. Oh, nothing life-threatening, but not actually fun either. It will be painful for her and necessitate her being unable to do her job for a little while. Now, had it been Prince Philip who had been hurt in even the slightest way, he’d have any amount of servants to do things for him. You know, like going to buy groceries, cooking said food … Oh yes. Silly me. He never has to do any of that really tedious but necessary stuff anyway.
I really do not understand your apparent glee here. You know - the “look at this guy and what a hero he is” attitude. The joy of him getting out “without a scratch” when you seem to think no other person involved matters in the slightest. Really. Why?
I have no idea about the honey badger reference at all. I suppose Google might help me there.
Celyn, the search terms are “honey badger don’t care”. It’s one of those things that either you’ve heard the reference before or you will have no idea wtf they’re talking about.
Glee? That was not the tone I was trying to convey.
Prince Philip is a notorious individual, in that he apparently doesn’t give a flying fornication about what he says or does, and appears to positively enjoy being a reckless asshole.
My feelings are ones of exasperated amazement and disbelief at him; he seems to be the personification of that typical caricature of a curmudgeonly great-great-grand uncle with zero graces, whom everybody is embarrassed by and who ends up outliving everybody else.
So, he is 97, still drives himself (unexpressed but implied feeling: ”against all common sense”), gets into a crash and gets out of it without a scratch (implied feeling: “at his age and frailty he should have been killed, but the bastard gets out basically unhurt”). That is why I wondered whether he actually was a Highlander (or perhaps I should have mentioned “the Kurgan” instead). My mention of his status as a living god for some tribes in Vanuatu was intended to highlight the general weirdness that surrounds him.
So, I guess I should have expressed myself better. But no, it is not “glee” what I tried to transmit. Rather exasperated disbelief, as I said earlier.
And, as Nava said, that “honey badger” stuff is one of those things that you either get or don’t. It has enjoyed a rather large measure of notoriety in the web, for what is worth.
He should have had his license revoked at LEAST a decade ago. Not only was he involved in a collision a few days ago, today he was back behind the wheel sans a seat-belt. What would have earned your average punter a substantial fine got the ponce a ‘stern warning’ from the wallopers. 
FFS…he’s 97. Pop a bracelet around his ankle that disables his car as soon as he tries to drive out of Sandringham. Simples.
They say, It’s good to be the King but It’s better to fuck the Queen.
AFAIK the warning was just for being seen without a seat belt. I don’t think the accident has been dealt with yet. I highly doubt that the police are in the habit of giving anybody “substantial fines” based solely off of newspaper pictures of them driving without a seat belt.
Yes, it’s a £100 fine, with no penalty points… not what you’d consider ‘substantial’.
I do think we need tougher rules around elderly drivers - my 90 year old father has become a terrible driver and refuses to give up, but as long as he keeps ‘self reporting’ that he’s fit to drive, he keeps driving.
I don’t advocate a standard age bar, like they have in Italy (anyone over 80 is banned), but I do think we need to start retesting people.
But even then, are any of those fines ever based on people calling the police to tattle about a picture they saw in a newspaper?
My impression was that the “warning” was something they did so they could say they did something, not an actual enforcement mechanism.
As to the age thing, it’s possible this is indicative of him being at the point where he shouldn’t drive, but this is a very common type of accident. It’s not like he confused the accelerator and brake, or got on a motorway going the wrong direction.
Do they still let him fly airplanes at that age?
Should probably let the Queen drive. If I recall, being Queen she doesn’t need a license? Hmm… wonder how you keep a monarch off the road in England?