Originally published at: Prince Philip's will to be kept secret for 90 years | Boing Boing
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I didn’t even know Buckingham Palace had a sex dungeon, but I guess it seems pretty obvious in retrospect.
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I don’t want to know what he left for Prince Andrew.
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Sod all Royals! Bunch of creepy ass mofos.
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“ The last will and testament of Queen Elizabeth’s consort, Philip, will be kept secret for 90 years to protect her “dignity and standing”.
Pool boy.
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After watching The Crown, if someone asked me to guess which member of that family was most likely to pull a posthumous dick move…
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The names of his slaves or maybe lovechilder?
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Something about HRM the Queen and the sybian.
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The jokes on her since she’ll most likely still be alive in 90 years.
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In 90 years are they going to find out he had solid gold sounding rods or something like that?
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or other royals who are best forgotten.
To Princess Michael of Kent I leave my collection of racist knick-knacks, that we both found to be so delightful. Please keep them safe from Prince Harry, who probably isn’t really my grandson.
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It’s traditional in the Royal family, not something special for Philip or proof there is something strange hidden in the will. The Royalty have to keep the few privileges they have left.
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He prob left it all to harry…
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According to the legal and royal expert Michael L Nash, author of Royal Wills in Britain from 1509 to 2008, the new legal mechanism was devised after Prince Francis left valuable emeralds prized by Queen Mary to his mistress, the Countess of Kilmore
and, apparently, this “tradition” was brought back into force in 2002
https://www.femalefirst.co.uk/royal_family/Queen+Latifah-47114.html
A transcript from the appeal court hearing last month revealed the procedure was so secret it was unknown to Dame Elizabeth’s successor Sir Mark Potter.
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While I loved the hints of his involvement in the Profumo scandal, (particularly just who it was that bought the incriminating pictures) all the nudges of philandering etc. I’m pretty disappointed that his mentor, Lord Mountbatten, got off without a hint of the chaos and death he caused in India nor yet of the fact that he was a child trafficking rapist and that not publishing the Kincora report was part of the deal to get the DUP to support Johnson’s brexit.
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Re the public interest or not argument: don’t the royals get a lot of government money? Sort of a dole for really rich people? Therefore wouldn’t Philip’s estate (or any other royals’, for that matter) largely consist of money, goods etc derived from the public purse/taxpayer funds? If so, I believe it’s very much in the public interest to know what’s in royal wills.
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Indeed, it has always been so:
ALL
The will, the will! we will hear Caesar’s will.
MARC ANTONY
Have patience, gentle friends, I must not read it;
It is not meet you know how Caesar loved you.
You are not wood, you are not stones, but men;
And, being men, bearing the will of Caesar,
It will inflame you, it will make you mad:
'Tis good you know not that you are his heirs;
For, if you should, O, what would come of it!
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I’m gutted. He promised me his Trojan 12" white labels.
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