And yet he won medals with the Royal Navy. He cannot be held responsible for the choices of his family. There was a full list of things he said on BBC weblink that were deemed to be racist or bigoted. A couple of them definately were, althought they were exactly the things scriptwriters were writing in In sickness and in health and Love thy neighbour and no doubt repeated by millions up and down the country as a copy cat joke. He lacked wisdom in that respect and a couple of the jokes were definately out of date by the time he repeated them, but to be honest most seemed to be meant as jokes and I suspect a lot of people he spoke to took them that way. He said to a Scots driving instructor, "How do you get the people here to remain off the wagon long enough" words may differ a little, but I found that quite funny.
Netflix showed him up as a bit of a lad in his younger day, no doubt the same as many people here were, it is what comes with youth until you find maturity, and has been pointed out his Parents were not much around to be role models. I never much liked the guy but after the Crown on Netflix I actually had some sympathy towards him. He never really wanted the his wife to become Queen, particularly so soon as he knew he would lose a lot of freedom to continue in the RN and meet his mates. Eventually he buckled down and not many people stay married for as long as them.
I am not particularly a Royalist and never have been, but I do respect the commitment the Queen has shown, though little time for most of the rest of the family and I would be quite happy if it ended after this regime, or at least toned down. I have other views which are too long to go into.
Lastly on Unionist, not all Unionists are or have to be Huns/Hearts supporters although I accept many are. I voted indy at last election but even since then my attitude has changed a lot. Maybe because I have an English daughter in law now and also that one son is in the military that I see we all have a common goal to protect our country and having fought alongside the rest of the UK I am not in a rush anymore to become a small independent country within Europe having little say over the Angela Merkels of the world. I expect there are other Hibs supporters who are quite happy to remain in the Union, but maybe they steer clear of the bounce. I notice the UK are going to protect a couple of fishing areas that are being ripped by European boats, the EU are up in arms about it, the same people who claim to want to save the oceans, yet are fighting for the right to fish in a very small area, already published as a protected area and almost stripped dry of sea creatures, yet the same people hide behind a teeny lassie called Greta and expect us to listen to them.
Sorry I veered a little, guess was replying to a few threads there
RIP Phillip