Albatross wrote:Uh, leaving aside the complete lack of evidence for a second, what possible reason could the Royal Family have for 'murdering' Diana Spencer?

Mr Hyena wrote:She was getting popular. She was the most liked royal of her time without a doubt. Look at her funeral.

Evidence? It doesn't take that long for an ambulance to come.

corpsesarefun wrote:Calling it now.

Zionist. Conspiracy.

Mr Hyena wrote:She was getting popular. She was the most liked royal of her time without a doubt. Look at her funeral.

Evidence? It doesn't take that long for an ambulance to come.

Also, what ARE the average first responder times for the Parisian Ambulance Service? How long should it take?

And given her wounds, I doubt it would have mattered if they where there waiting on the wreck.

Mr Hyena wrote:Sod the protocol. When someone who was a hero for the people dies, you fly it at half mast. No ifs. Not buts.

And that sir, is the difference between a lifetime of living by a certain very strict rule-book with precedents and traditions going back centuries, and just being a peasant.

Mr Hyena wrote:Compared to an AIDs worker? your right. Compared to the rest of the royals? The word fits.

ArbeitsSchu wrote:So is ignoring protocol.

This is what you aren't grasping. You live your life by a certain unwritten moral code, a set of rules a sto what you see as "wrong", or "right." You appear to have at least an idea of how you will react to certain events. Some things you "just do."

Now try and imagine that that rule-book was written for you a century ago. You have been raised to follow it. Some things are "done", and some things are "not".

The difference is that your rulebook can be dropped or re-written whenever you feel like it, and the only person held to it is you.

Your suggestion that the Royal Family could just cry "Sod the protocol" is akin to an officer in a Guards regiment saying "Sod orders, lets do what we like." Even more so given that both Philip and Elizabeth served in the military themselves.

Her Brother-in-Law served with distinction in the Falklands. Her Father-in-Law saw active service in WWII.


Just throwing it out there.

Mr Hyena wrote:Compared to an AIDs worker? your right. Compared to the rest of the royals? The word fits.

Naval service
After leaving Gordonstoun in 1939, Prince Philip joined the Royal Navy, graduating the next year from the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, as the top cadet in his course.[18] He was commissioned as a midshipman in January 1940. Philip spent four months on the battleship HMS Ramillies, protecting convoys of the Australian Expeditionary Force in the Indian Ocean, followed by shorter postings on HM Ships Kent, Shropshire and in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). After the invasion of Greece by Italy in October 1940, he was transferred from the Indian Ocean to the battleship HMS Valiant in the Mediterranean Fleet.[19] Amongst other engagements, he was involved in the Battle of Crete, was mentioned in despatches for his service during the Battle of Cape Matapan where he controlled the battleship's searchlights.
Philip was also awarded the Greek War Cross of Valour.[18] Duties of lesser glory included stoking the boilers of the troop transport ship RMS Empress of Russia.[20]
Prince Philip was promoted to sub-lieutenant after a series of courses at Portsmouth in which he gained the top grade in four out of five sections.[21] In June 1942, he was appointed to the V and W class destroyer and flotilla leader, HMS Wallace, which was involved in convoy escort tasks on the east coast of Britain, as well as the allied invasion of Sicily.[22] Promotion to lieutenant followed on 16 July 1942. In October of the same year, at just 21 years of age, he became first lieutenant of HMS Wallace and one of the youngest first lieutenants in the Royal Navy. During the invasion of Sicily, in July 1943, as second in command of HMS Wallace, he saved his ship from a night bomber attack. He devised a plan to launch a raft with smoke floats that successfully distracted the bombers allowing the ship to slip away unnoticed.[22] In 1944, he moved on to the new destroyer, HMS Whelp, where he saw service with the British Pacific Fleet in the 27th Destroyer Flotilla.[23][24] He was present in Tokyo Bay when the instrument of Japanese surrender was signed. In January 1946, Philip returned to the United Kingdom on the Whelp, and was posted as an instructor at HMS Royal Arthur, the Petty Officers' School in Corsham, Wiltshire.[25]