The Funeral of Prince Philip. (Page 1/1)
blackrams APR 17, 10:15 AM
I don't mean to offend anyone and no disrespect is intended but, I'm not in to funerals.
Upon my own passing, there will be no funeral, maybe a celebration of life but, that's what I have requested from my wife and or surviving children.
Then again, she may throw a party.

It's raining here and there's not another thing on any television station. I don't do things out in the rain unless it's an emergency. I might melt and float away.

I don't understand America's media's love toward the Royals. Whether that's former royal Harry and his wife Megan or his mother or, any of the other "Royals".

Rams

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sourmash APR 17, 11:08 AM
No idea. And the drama queen, Meghan with her toad, Harry are just jealous attention whores.

The royals are getting what they deserve in Meghan. They push the globalism, being invaded and now it has attacked them. Hilarious, really.
blackrams APR 17, 11:12 AM

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Originally posted by sourmash:

No idea. And the drama queen, Meghan with her toad, Harry are just jealous attention whores.

The royals are getting what they deserve in Meghan. They push the globalism, being invaded and now it has attacked them. Hilarious, really.



Well, I don't wish the "Royals" anything bad, I just don't understand why Americans seem so enthralled with them. There are numerous people I have respect for, all of them came from nothing to become what they are. Not through simple birth right.

Rams
rinselberg APR 17, 11:53 AM
A person becomes King or Queen (or Prince; etc.) through the process of Succession. A birth right. But what kind of King or Queen they become and how they are remembered by history--that's "on" them.

Americans tend to view King George III through the lens of the American Revolution, and the first thoughts about him on this side of the pond are likely to be that he was a villain because of his role in the British war against the American colonies, and that he was "mad."

I wouldn't have thought much different myself until I happened to see a documentary that was aired in connection with the opening of a new library in Britain of letters and documents from George III's life. Just a few years ago.

It's a very large collection of letters and documents, partly because George III was (and still is) the longest-serving male monarch in British history, and partly because George III was kind of a Renaissance man, by any standards. He had wide-ranging interests, including the scientific discoveries of his time, and is credited in this documentary as being a great "modernizer" of British government and society. This, despite the intermittent episodes when he suffered from obvious psychological or neurological debilitation.

The "royal" you diss may become the "royal" you miss.

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Jake_Dragon APR 17, 12:32 PM
Same people that follow the Kardashians. I could care less about either of them.
I would rather they just go live their lives and leave the rest of us out of it.

I don't care one way or the other about a funeral. If my loved ones need it for closure then I am all for it. I have only attended close family and was there for support, mine and my family.
Each of us has our own view.
I wonder what Philip wanted? Na not really...
maryjane APR 17, 01:12 PM
Not all British royalty and title come/came from 'blood birthright'.
The connection is/has sometimes been 'created' thru peerage and marriage.
Queen (Mother) Elizabeth I for instance, married Claude Bowes-Lyon, descendant of a knight and her mother was descendent of a lowly prime minister.

cliffw APR 17, 03:36 PM

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Originally posted by blackrams:
I don't mean to offend anyone and no disrespect is intended ...
I don't understand America's media's love toward the Royals. Whether that's former royal Harry and his wife Megan or his mother or, any of the other "Royals".



Ron, I was born in England, London actually, and I am a royal. A royal pain in the azz. They mean nothing to me either, other than "much about nothin'.
blackrams APR 17, 11:24 PM

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Originally posted by cliffw:


Ron, I was born in England, London actually, and I am a royal. A royal pain in the azz.



Cliff, I already knew that. Both parts.

Rams

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randye APR 18, 02:11 AM

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Originally posted by blackrams:

I don't understand America's media's love toward the Royals.


Rams




I'm more concerned with American politician's proclivity for behaving as, and expecting to be treated as, royalty.

The US media are merry sycophants of Demorats and enablers of this disturbing trend.