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She won't abdicate. There's no need for her to do so. Abdication is a dirty word to her, it caused her parents no end of grief.

In his defence he offended everyone without fear or favour.

I take it now wouldn't be an appropriate moment to set up a Tinder profile for 'Lizzy, 94, Windsor' ?

Harry is poison. Personally, I think they should lock him out.

I do like the way the beeb felt it necessary to clarify which Prince Philip has died.

Exactly, he was hardly casual.

As I've said before, he took the piss out of everybody, he was an equal opportunities offender I don't think he was a racist at all. He and the Queen were meeting people from all nations, races, religions, you name it, they were probably more open-minded than the average white UK citizen back in the day.

Fucking hell, I can't see the Queen being happy about that!

The fucking nerve if they cancel tonights episode of EastEnders because of this.

A bit harsh, me thinks. I'm no jingoist but I don't see anything wrong with showing some solidarity with the Queen at this difficult time for her.

I actually feel rather sad. Much more so than I expected I would.

He must have done some Morris dancing at some point, surely?

Think Martine's stunned she's the one who ended up on duty when it was announced. She must have a million things being yelled in her ear and it's all quite stunted. Was probably always going to be the case, though. I've no idea what impact it will have on the Queen. It will, of course, be devastating to her, but it is not wholly unexpected, and I suspect it's been a managed decline over the fortnight or so he's been home from hospital, so she'll have been preparing for it. I wouldn't put any money on her going this year, fully expect another Christmas message from HM. Oh, and of course Rest in Peace, Your Royal Highness. A life of service with an appropriately low-key end.

Quick Phil the Greek update before I head off to work... The streak of unique hits has ended with a heavyweight death. Prince Philip has died, if you haven't heard already. Unsurprisingly given his zombie-like appearance he was a popular selection with our collective, and 10 teams Greece up their totals as the Duke gets Edin-buried. 45 points for chilean way and Pedro67. 40 for Dying Probably. 35 for Book. 25 for Eesti, LizLemon, and markb4. 20 for The Old Crem. and 25 sub points for En Passant and The Quim Reaper. And with that comes a new scoreboard, with Perhaps clinging on to his lead but with Book and Eesti royally rising to narrow the margins. 1. Perhaps 214 2. Book 190 3. Eesti 185 4. CaptainChorizo 175.32 5. Pedro67 165.19 6. Funeralopolis 165 7. An Fear Beag 160 8. maryportfuncity 156 9. msc 155.32 10. Sean 145 11. En Passant 140 12. gcreptile 135.32 13. drol 122 14. Death Impends 119 15. LizLemon 115 16. Dying Probably 110.19 17. Torva Messor 105 18. The Daredevil 104 19. The Quim Reaper 100 20. markb4 98 21. Lynchian 90 22. Charles De Gaulle 87 =23. chilean way 85 =23. theoldlady 85 25. Annami 80 26. Great Uncle Bulgaria 70.19 =27. Exu 65 =27. The Old Crem 65 29. JoeMoneypenny 60 30. YoungWillz 50.19 31. GuyFromFuture 50 =32. Joey Russ 45 =32. time 45 =32. YorkshireBanker 45 35. DevonDeathTrip 35 36. the_engineer 25 37. The Unknown Man 20 =38. BabyBlue 0 =38. Bibliogryphon 0 =38. CalebH 0 =38. DeathByArsenic 0 =38. sheldondinkleberg 0 =38. Toast 0

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RIP the Duke. Really bad taste to call him a 'casual racist' - he was a man of his time and he took on board the attitudes of his time, right or wrong.

Christ almighty Boris - sort your hair at least in these situations.

The real end of an era comes when Elizabeth dies

Dead. RIP Sir.

She's been on the phone and sorted it already. The racing's been switched to ITV4.

BBC Radio 1,1X,2,3,4,4X,5,5X all have the same idiot telling me about how he cared for the environment. Fuck off. I was listening to the cricket.

May I briefly interrupt this period of international mourning to say, oh for fuck sake.

So soon... Well, you keep waiting for it, and are still surprised when it happens.

I've gone for Leslie Phillips.

More than a third of the voters thought Prince Philip was next. They were right. Thread closed.