Prince Phillip
 

Retires at 96! It's debatable whether meet & greets are real work, but after 71 years of public service, I guess he can be given the benefit of the doubt. He seems incredibly sprightly for that age, and generally, he's been a good egg. Hope he enjoys a long retirement.

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More work than it appears, especially at that age !

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Good for him, a long and mainly successful public life culminating in well earned retirement. More than many UK MP's can boast, spending decades polishing the seats of their trousers in the House of Commons, having done little more than turn up, their over riding priority in all things being self interest!

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The man is a waste of space. Good riddance to him.

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My understanding is that, at 96, he rides horses every day, drinks a lot and doesn't give a shit what people think. I may not admire him but I'd certainly like to emulate him.

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Still rides? If true, that's remarkable. I know he's played a lot of polo in his life but watching his public appearances the last few years it looks like walking is a chore.
Maybe a little riding provides a beneficial workout, and that's what has kept him as spry as he is.

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And you Sir, are..? (50 words will do - not counting "Daily Trash" reader).

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I can't recall where I saw that, Nag and Dog probably. A quick search shows no direct evidence but here's his wife riding at 90+:

At 91 Queen Elizabeth Is Still Riding Horses - Photo of Queen Elizabeth Riding Horses

She has no helmet! How on earth does her riding school get liability cover?

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Meine alte freunde Siggy lived through Bomber Command's assault on Berlin and he doesn't give a shit either, I suppose once you've been through the Blitz....

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Oh come on James, his name isnt Kardashian....no one beats that crew for defining a waste of space!

And to be fair he has kept the public entertained over the years with his one liners! Im sure hes been in the dog house with the missus a few times after such one liners!

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I would posit that the world's wealthiest woman is, rightfully so, not too interested in others having liability cover for injuries to her. It would make interesting reading, the lawsuit would.

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Having unlimited money available combined with advanced years provides one with much liberty as to one's conduct. What would/could HM do if he pissed her off?

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Oh yes, I should have thought of that. Maybe she doesn't even attend a riding school, maybe she has her own horse and keeps it at home.

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I understand that the retirement if off. Apparently, he had an ATOS work capability assessment and was deemed fit to work.

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He'll be sanctioned. :lol:

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Maybe you should Google 'The Duke of Edinburgh's Award' and then come back and tell us what a waste of space he is. How all those millions of kids spread over 10+ countries were better off staying at home instead of volunteering or gaining new skills.

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Not the world's wealthiest woman.

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I cant imagine how she wouldn't be the world's wealthiest woman. She has ownership of assets that are beyond the reach of the wealthiest.

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Most of it is state-owned, property of the Crown, not Elizabeth Windsor.

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Isnt the Crown Estate owned by the Queen ? Two years ago Guardian reported the value of those holdings alone at 11.5 billion, though Queen as I understand it keeps only 15% of revenue. Then they are assets held outright like Balmoral Castle- how would one value such assets ? Plus if I remember whales within three miles of the shore.

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Fairly easy to value real estate. Forbes does an annual list of the wealthiest women (as does the Times) and in recent years it usually lament's Liz's fall from the top position. And in any case, as Brit pointed out, they are state not personal assets. Constitutional monarchy and all that.

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I should correct myself slightly when I said 'state-owned', the Crown Estate is neither property of the monarch nor their government, but held in trust for the nation. This means neither the Queen nor the government can sell off the assets but income from the estate does go into the government coffers from which the monarchy receives 15% of the net revenue which is the Sovereign grant and helps pay for the upkeep of Royal residences, etc..

Those properties that the Queen does own outright were bought by her predecessors for private family use; this is why she holidays in Balmoral during the summer and Sandringham during the winter, as those are the family's private homes and therefore allows them to be 'off-duty', or at least a reduced workload for the Queen.

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:goodpost:

A very good point.

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The Duke of Edinburgh award was founded by Kurt Hahn.

Good effort though.

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It was modelled on Kurt Hahn's philosophy (Hahn was Philip's headmaster at Gordonstoun) but it is incorrect to state that Hahn was the founder.

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As well as Gordonstoun, where Philip was one fo the first pupils, Hahn founded many other schools based on his "Salem School" model, including the first Outward Bound school in Wales in the 1940s. It was this, and the educational philosophy expressed in his "Six Declines of Modern Youth" (and his recipe to reverse those declines) that the Duke of Edinburgh adopted to base his awards on. By the time the DofE awards were established in 1956, Hahn had retired due to ill health.

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So does the queen thanks to the great diet they eat and access to beyond imagination expert healthcare professionals.

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You mean a bit like Oskar Gröning?