Thread: Vale Phil the Greek

I get the BBC on cable TV here, and am in a better time zone. Watched the whole thing as nothing else worth watching!

Those Windsor's must have some good business deals working for them, going on the collection of expensive cars! Nice old horse and cart as well!

Yes, if the Land Rover has an electric engine it is badly in need of some new bearings! I was a bit disappointed that they didn't drive it up the steps to the Chapel. Poor buggers tasked with carrying the coffin had to stop halfway up for a breather!

I really felt for the Queen. She appeared to be very stressed and showing her age. Surely at least her Lady in Waiting could have stayed with her.

Originally Posted by jerryd

Just located this “image” of Prince Phillip in MG TC/1362
On April 23rd 2016 at the Chippenham Auction Rooms in London, a rare handwritten letter written in 1947 by the then 21 year old Princess Elizabeth,
was sold for US $20,880.00
It revealed how Prince Phillip’s MG TC, which he purchased on 25th September 1946, played a role in his courtship of the future queen.
The letter was sent to Betty Shew who was writing the official souvenir book called, “The Royal Wedding”.
In her letter Princess Elizabeth recalled how the young couple drove each other around London and were at one point even chased by photographers.
The princess remembered, “Philip enjoys driving and does it fast! He has his own tiny M.G. which he is very proud of - he has taken me about in it,
once up to London, which was great fun, only it was like sitting on the road, and the wheels are almost as high as one’s head."
"On one, and only one occasion, we were chased by a photographer which was disappointing.”
Sadly, there is no contemporary record of what may have happened to this black with green upholstery royal MG TC/1362
(registration plate XHD 99) or if it exists to this day.

If someone does manage to find that MG, it must be worth a fortune if just a letter about it is GBP 20 000, might even be worth more that the "centre steer" L-R prototype.

Originally Posted by silicon_valley

Heh, that story about the 'electric' hearse has vanished now. That diesel rattling we all heard must have dissolved it.

I rather enjoyed watching the funeral of Prince Philip. Whether you are a Republican or Royalist, the Poms do this business superbly well. Superb singing from the choir quartet, the service personnel looked terrific & everything went like clockwork, including the Defender!

It almost brought a tear to my eye when I heard the genial rattle of the TD5!

Cheers,

Lionel

Originally Posted by Old Farang

I get the BBC on cable TV here, and am in a better time zone. Watched the whole thing as nothing else worth watching!

Those Windsor's must have some good business deals working for them, going on the collection of expensive cars! Nice old horse and cart as well!

Yes, if the Land Rover has an electric engine it is badly in need of some new bearings! I was a bit disappointed that they didn't drive it up the steps to the Chapel. Poor buggers tasked with carrying the coffin had to stop halfway up for a breather!

I really felt for the Queen. She appeared to be very stressed and showing her age. Surely at least her Lady in Waiting could have stayed with her.

Nah, they were waiting for the bloke with the key to unlock the door.

interesting how the poms raided the pyramids and took mummies of the ancient Egyptian monarchy and displayed them in museum , got me thinking are the royals safe from archaeologists of the future in their crypts?

I hope Epic_Dragon has watched this, as some very nice horses being used.
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Prince Philip’s love of carriage driving to be remembered at funeral


Prince Philip’s love of carriage driving to be remembered at funeral | Prince Philip | The Guardian

Polished dark green carriage that he rode in his 90s will be on procession route at Windsor Castle

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Prince Philip driving his carriage at the Royal Windsor horse show in May 2019. Photograph: Andrew Matthews/PA

Right into his 90s, the Duke of Edinburgh continued to drive his team of fell ponies around the royal estates from the box seat of a carriage he designed himself.

He took up the sport of carriage driving in his 50s when what he called his “dodgy” arthritic wrist forced him to give up polo playing, and continued competing into his 80s. In more recent years he could still be seen driving, reins in hand, just for fun.

His horse-drawn wheeled carriage and his black fell ponies, Balmoral Nevis and Notlaw Storm, both born in 2008, will be a poignant feature of his funeral. The polished dark green four-wheeled carriage, accompanied by two of Philip’s grooms, will stand in the Quadrangle at Windsor Castle as the duke’s coffin is carried past in a procession on a Land Rover hearse.

The carriage was built to his specifications eight years ago and can seat four people and harness up to eight horses. It has two padded black leather seats and a clock mounted on brass at the front, presented by the Queen’s Royal Irish Hussars in 1978 to mark his 25 years as their colonel-in-chief.

Philip had been designing driving carriages since the 1970s. “I am getting old, my reactions are getting slower, and my memory is unreliable, but I have never lost the sheer pleasure of driving a team through the British countryside,” he said in a book he authored about the sport.

Towards the end of the 1980s he ceased driving four-in-hand teams, but he continued to drive competitively with teams of ponies, eventually retiring from the sport in 2003, though he still took part non-competitively in his 90s.

The Countess of Wessex, in a tribute this week at Windsor, recalled that Philip had been “pulled out of a few ditches here, I seem to remember”.

Fell Ponies: Fell pony - Wikipedia

Originally Posted by silicon_valley

Heh, that story about the 'electric' hearse has vanished now. That diesel rattling we all heard must have dissolved it.

There's probably an electric one somewhere, waiting for Charles.

Originally Posted by Roverlord off road spares

interesting how the poms raided the pyramids and took mummies of the ancient Egyptian monarchy and displayed them in museum , got me thinking are the royals safe from archaeologists of the future in their crypts?

I think they are safe as they aren't silly enough to be buried with gold or other valuable grave goods, or at least keep it a secret.