“I just got on with it. It’s what one does” – Prince Philip, 1921 -2021
The nation’s and the world’s MSM are dedicating pages and pages, hours and hours, to the death of Prince Philip. The ‘good and great’ are all having their say and we, the little people, have been reading and looking. After all – unless one’s one of the over-80s, there wasn’t a time when ‘we’ didn’t know about Prince Philip. He has ‘always’ been there. So it’s only proper to pause and reflect because his life was a constant in our lives.
Prince Philip was of that tough generation, the one born between the two world wars. I am sure we all know one or the other of that generation living in our neighbourhood. Their number is dwindling fast. We must cherish them, not least because there’s so much we still can learn from them.
Given that background I found one of Prince Philip’s quotes hugely significant. I read it in one of the personal observations written by those with instant access to the MSM. It’s an answer Prince Philip gave on different occasions when he was asked about his experiences in his early years – experiences which, according to one writer, would have had social services on the scene immediately today. These early experiences would have made today’s youth workers insist he be taken into care, experiences which, according to today’s attitudes, should have meant perpetual counselling and hiding under the bedclothes behind drawn curtains.
This is the quote: “I just got on with it. It’s what one does.”
It’s what he and that great generation did – that generation of which he was a most prominent member. Many of us have also been taught this attitude by parents and grandparents belonging to Prince Philip’s generation – an attitude which seems quaint to those inside the M25, to those on the Islington dinner circuit, to those who are now peacocking about, telling us their ‘personal’ reminiscences about how and when they were fortunate enough to have met Prince Philip.
I’m sure many of you will have watched and read the outpourings – the ‘official’ ones and the comment posts where they were permitted. I’ll not quote from them nor will I link to them. There’s only one report I’ll have to mention. It’s about the huge online moan by the twitter generation, complaining that the BBC had cancelled all normal output yesterday, only broadcasting programmes about the death of Prince Philip (link) – what outrage!
This is strange because these are the same people who thrive on binge-watching Netflix and other video channels. These are the same people who most certainly never watch wall-to-wall BBC. These are the same people who think that only their opinion matters because they ‘have followers on twitter’. These are the same people for whom no opportunity must be missed to denigrate and belittle all of us and especially ‘the elderly’, one of whom was Prince Philip.
These are the same people who, thanks to their ‘connections’ to the Westminster “elite” in MSM and Whitehall, have been betraying us for decades. This is the same “social media prominence” who has been doing ‘politics by twitter’, who is content with having Zoom Peacocks in Parliament.
It’s this ‘generation’ who has been denigrating Prince Philip’s generation and the one born just after the end of WWII. While we, raised to get on with it because “that’s what one does”, have done so as best we could, they have infantilised themselves to such an extent that they cannot get on with anything unless they have ‘guidance’ and ‘counselling’ and hashtags on twitter.
On this day, reflecting on the life of a WWII veteran who happened to become the ‘liege man’ and mainstay of our Queen, we should humbly demand that all those who are now signalling their ‘virtue’, by mentioning that they too had ‘known him’, by tweeting and peacocking about, now blimmin’ well get on with doing their duty – the duty of protection this our Nation in the way we, their sovereign, have told them to do.
It’s what Prince Philip would’ve told them to do.
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The one decent guy in the royal family. Can’t say the same about Lizzie who failed to speak out about giving away our sovereignty.
RIP Prince Philip. I always enjoyed his off the cuff comments. As for the jab, I know of a number of people who have had very uncomfortable side affects but refused to report them so there will not be a proper record of how people have reacted to them. Pathetic.
His gaffes were good especially the politically incorrect ones. Didnt they publish a book of them? I liked the outrageous one about (I thought) the Pope’s tartan underpants when he came here; although it turned out it was the Pope’s assistans underpants he meant.
When I first read your title this morning Viv “Daily Betrayal ……….on the death of Prince Philip” I was rather astonished and racked my brain for “naughtiest” which might fit the circumstances, I certainly didn’t believe it was anything he’d done or left undone.
In fact the only thing I could put my finger on was perhaps he had been denied a State Funeral, which I consider is essential for the Monarch and I would have expected for such an honoured Consort who did share the burdens of state even as in the position of husband to the Queen.
The reason I considered this could be a possibility was I had heard that Prince Phillip had made all the arrangements for his funeral himself.
A likely tale I thought, they are using Covid as an excuse to evade the issue.
Anyway ten out of ten to you Viv you’ve stated a glaring case superbly, it needed to be said, his and our generation did “have to get on with it”
My Scottish wife learned from her Grandmother, if you are facing difficult decisions ask yourself “what would the heilan man do?”
Yes! Tough it out and don’t moan, unfortunately we are peopled with a land of vociferous moaners and particularly lately Remoaners .
Personally I usually approved and will particularly miss many of his “salty” comments
Thank you, Roger, for your kind words! Sorry if my choice of title misled you somewhat, but I’ve felt strongly that Prince Philip’s ‘I just got on with it’ reply to the various hacks encapsulates perfectly the gulf between his generation and the one born immediately at the end of WWII – and the ones following.
Are the snowflakes ‘our fault’? Or isn’t it the case that, From prince Philip down, all of us who ‘got on with it – it’s what one does’ were depicted, ever more stridently, as cold, as people with no empathy, with no feelings – especially not for the ‘feelz’ of those who get hysterical when a word is misused, in their view.
I dont know when his actual 100th birthday would have been but….I cannot help thinking that perhaps he might just have been ‘robbed’ of that milestone day. Couldn’t have been ‘that jab’ could it? No State Funeral because….COVID! Would they have been saying that if it had been The Queen?????
This Country has lost its collective marbles. Most of the population is living in a cardboard cut-out, superficial World now. Anaesthetised by Bread and Circuses; Facebook and Twitter (twitter by name and twitter by nature…..(nothing I’ve ever seen on there seems to be of any substance!) their brain cells are so diminished that they are unable to distinguish fact from propaganda. Still….poor things….they wont ever know any differently! Not like those of us ‘oldies’ who remember the ‘real World’ and the life we had in it when we were ‘really free’!
RIP Prince Philip. The Royal Family (and The World) is the poorer because of the loss of this strong, cantankerous and determined human being!
No, i don’t think covid or the jab had anything to do with Prince Philip’s death. He’s been in hospital a few times already, “BC” – that is, ‘before covid’. And from what I read between the lines the doctors were doing their utmost to keep him going. Only, when the years pile on there’s not much to be done, no matter what all modern medicine might claim to be able to do.
Personally, I think his insistence on being let out of hospital gave hime some more time – and yes, thanks to covid he was able to spend the last days with the wife he loved. Moreover, thanks to covid there’ll be ‘no fuss’ made for his funeral, just as he wished.
It’s made me realise I’m not SO old after all. Born 1944 I’m actually one of the next generation!
Anyway I haven’t been surfing any news especially so I still don’t know when he would have reached 100. Also, is it true he will not get a ‘State Funeral’?
Thank you, Viv.
I am one of those over 80s donosaurs. I have memories, and one of them is, “Pull yourself together…and get on with it.”
And we did.
What I remember of Prince Phillip is that he was keen on carriage horses. He drove a coach and four competitively at one time I believe.
Queen and Prince Consort jabbed 9 Jan 2021.
Invoking the govmt rules:-
– If they needed another, second jab, then Prince Phillip died from the jab – Hence added to the death from jabs statistics.
– If it was an apache ‘one shot’ jab then he was not killed by the jab.
As to the location and by whom theses are collated, who knows?
As to side effects – many adherents to the jab I have spoken to have told of severe headaches, sweating, felling like death warmed up, no appetite and cannot drink and so forth – same as my and surrounding district population flu sysmtoms. That was late December 2019 .
One, a good friend, a couple of weeks ago, suffered the above just after the ‘jab’. After two days of hell she felt OK and went into the garden. On returning to house collapsed bashing her face on concrete stairs. Two black eyes and emergency dental treatment.
No stats please, we’re UKish.
Biscotte. I wondered about whether it was the jab that killed him. Was he done on the same day as her majesty? Wasn’t he already in hospital when she was done? That’s how I remembered it.
He’s been in and out of hospital I believe and I’m not sure we have been told exactly what for.
Agree with all of this but then I would as my Mother said to me very similar words to those uttered by the Duke: ‘Pull yourself together and get on with it’. So I did.
Without his loyal support it’s difficult to believe that Her Majesty would have been able to bear the burden. A man who put duty and service before self.
Politicians please note.
JF
Fat chance of politicians doing likewise Julian.
Prince Phillip’s death does feel like yet another blow to our nation.
Pauline…….quite right. Compared with Prince Phillip’s personal stature, most of our politicians have yet to climb out of the gutter. Very very few of them know the meaning of the phrase public service. Most are self publicists and more interested in their personal vested interests, and clawing as much money as possible out of the system for doing as little as possible. I am disgusted with the whole of them from top to bottom.
“Compared with Prince Phillip’s personal stature”? Compared with all the creatures that crawl about on the earth they have yet to climb out of the gutter. At least the crawly creatures are going about their station in life honestly, “just getting on with it”.