Here's My Thought....

When Princess Diana died I think it tapped into a kind of Zeitgeist of friends, families and loved ones dying and that a lot of people 'transferred' those feelings onto the situation with Diana...

With Prince Philip passing away in the middle of this worldwide pandemic, do we think that the same kind of 'transference' will happen; that people who have lost their mums, dads, family members, friends, work colleagues from COVID will use it as a central point for all their outpouring of grief?

I am getting a sense of that myself....

What do others think/feel ?

😔

SJD x

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HootyTheNightOwl

The Royal Family aren't liked as much as you might like to think they are among the British public.

I spent most of yesterday trying to get through people's thick skulls that Philip made an impact on the lives of many more commoners than he ever got to meet through his Duke of Edinburgh programme. He gave people skills that they used to better their lives and that they will continue to use to better their lives, even though he is now no longer with us.

SammyJo · 51-55, F

@HootyTheNightOwl Hey hun...please see what I wrote to @NotJamieM 's reply....to see what I mean...

But yes, he will sorely be missed...

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SJD x

Justme264 · 70-79, M

@HootyTheNightOwl will he be sorely missed... by some suppose ?

His scheme was a seems to help many but he was not the greatest father and his children did not turn out great...

HootyTheNightOwl

@Justme264 Yes, it seems that only few people will miss him and remember him fondly.

No, he wasn't perfect, but:-

1) The day of his death was hardly the ideal time for anyone to have been stating that. I get that he was 99 and he looked like death when he came out of hospital that last time - but he had looked worse than that on other occasions and still managed to pull through... you can't blame some people for being shocked by the news of his death particularly when every indication was that he was going to live to be 100 years old - which would have been a once in a lifetime event for some of us commoners to witness. Even now, I still have to wonder how the celebrations for that would have been managed, considering the pandemic and the fact that gathering is still frowned upon.

2) Show me someone who is perfect and I will show you a liar.

At the end of the day, we are all products of our own environments - and Buckingham Palace is hardly the most ideal place to be raising children anyway. Being a parent had to come second to being a monarch. For all we know, the upbringing they gave their children is the mirror image of the upbringing that they had themselves.

Justme264 · 70-79, M

@HootyTheNightOwl he had a difficult if almost non existent family upbringing. It probably made him who he was

None of us is perfect I agree.... and I won't speak ill of the dead...

Best Wishes to you