The UK still uses imperial for road distances and speeds.
No doubt a person of good breeding would have recognized that as a heartfelt apology.
He should have his car keys taken away, period. It should be done as an example for other families afraid to deal with infirm elderly relatives who insist on driving when they are a menace to everyone on and off the road. We had one of those killer grandpas driving down the jogging path in Lincoln Park once, for god’s sake.
I fear that the woman has made a very bad mistake in going public. She’s going to go through the whole fifteen minutes of fame from sympathy to being devoured alive.
Positively loaded with sincere emotion.
“I say! Fairweather - remember that time when I ran you off the road and put you in hospital? Oh well of course you do - it was only your wrist you broke, not your head. All hunky-dory then! Time for a quick tot of gin before bed, what?”
And she should have been appreciative of it.
In the U.S. get shot in the face by V.P. Cheney and you the victim are expected to apologize to His Disgrace.
Note that the Greek royal family was “adopted” by Greece after independence. None of them had any recent Greek blood in them. His family fled Greece when he was a year old.
Philip is almost completely of German extraction with a little bit of English and borderline Danish in him.
OTOH, he is the longest-lived, living great-great-grandchild of Queen Victoria.
Correct; Her Majesty doesn’t need a license to drive (presumably she got one before the became Queen, but it’s long since expired). Also as the Fount of Justice if hypothetically Prince Phillip were to be charged with an offence the prosecution against him would proceed in his wife’s name just like when Princess Anne was up before the magistrate for not keeping her dogs under control.
To get my grandfather to stop driving my father had to take his car to the shop “for repairs”; after a few months we sold the car off and eventually instead of taking him to renew his license when it expired he got a non-diver’s photo ID instead.
Well if she were American we’d be talking lawsuit and out of court settlement.
He’s one of those tough old coots that just won’t go away that easy.
His bios say he quit piloting in 1997.
That’s an interestingly specific qualification in the middle there.
Who’s the longest-lived no longer living great-great-grandchild of QV, and how long does Phil have to hang on to beat them?
Assuming this page is correct, he’s the longest-lived great-great-grandchild, living or dead, and he only has three months to go to become the longest-lived descendant of any degree.
Cool site!
I see Queen Liz herself is hot(ish) on his heels too
It took fifty pounds if explosives to kill his uncle. And even then Lord Mountbatten didn’t die instantly.