I drove 65 miles every day for over a year to visit him in hospital and care home as at least 8 inoperable cancer tumours slowly ate their way through him.
He was 6ft2 when he went in and less than 6ft when he died.
He ended his life doubly incontinent, blind, couldn't walk , couldn't speak and couldn't eat and weighed less than 7 stone when he died 5 weeks ago.
I lay on his bed beside him every day and told him how much I loved him.
You have my deepest sympathy @Hostafan1. Let's just say l know how you feel for reasons that l don't wish to go into here. As Her Majesty once said "Grief is the price we pay for love ".
I think what gets lost in all this is that we are all just people. The Queen had a role, but she was a mum, a gran, a great gran and irrespective of anything else, her family deserve some time without the prying eyes and inquisitive minds. But they are 'royal' and the price that tag demands is that their lives are lived in public. Prince yesterday, King today and the man continues the 'role'.
Why don't people take their bunches of flowers out of the plastic wrappers before leaving their tributes? Why leave a bunch? One single bloom would afford the same sentiment
Why don't people take their bunches of flowers out of the plastic wrappers before leaving their tributes?
This is a serious pet hate of mine. That and leaving plastic flowers that you have no intention of removing. You can find a lot of bits of plastic flowers washed up on beaches. I'm knackered this week. The new school routine plus a few nights of disturbed sleep and I'm struggling to function properly. I rang a shop yesterday to order something and couldn't string the sentence together properly to tell the girl what I was after. I was hoping to finish early today and take the dog for a long walk to clear my head a bit but my wife has arranged for the In-laws to pop over after school They were only here on Monday and twice in one week is asking a lot of my politeness at the best of times.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I’m going to have my rant on here, more appropriate than on the Queen thread. I do not see any good reason why Camilla is going to be called Queen Consort, and is even going to be crowned and ‘anointed’.
Prince Philip was never known as King Consort, nor was Prince Albert. In my mind, the title Queen should be reserved for a monarch reigning in her own right, especially now that the law has been changed to allow female offspring to become ruler, despite having younger brothers who in the past would have taken precedence.
This all strikes me as pretty sexist, but then I’ve always thought there was something a bit off in officially declaring someone a ‘consort’!
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I drove 65 miles every day for over a year to visit him in hospital and care home as at least 8 inoperable cancer tumours slowly ate their way through him.
He was 6ft2 when he went in and less than 6ft when he died.
He ended his life doubly incontinent, blind, couldn't walk , couldn't speak and couldn't eat and weighed less than 7 stone when he died 5 weeks ago.
I lay on his bed beside him every day and told him how much I loved him.
Maybe I'm just all grieved out.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Let's just say l know how you feel for reasons that l don't wish to go into here.
As Her Majesty once said "Grief is the price we pay for love ".
I'm knackered this week. The new school routine plus a few nights of disturbed sleep and I'm struggling to function properly. I rang a shop yesterday to order something and couldn't string the sentence together properly to tell the girl what I was after. I was hoping to finish early today and take the dog for a long walk to clear my head a bit but my wife has arranged for the In-laws to pop over after school
Prince Philip was never known as King Consort, nor was Prince Albert. In my mind, the title Queen should be reserved for a monarch reigning in her own right, especially now that the law has been changed to allow female offspring to become ruler, despite having younger brothers who in the past would have taken precedence.
This all strikes me as pretty sexist, but then I’ve always thought there was something a bit off in officially declaring someone a ‘consort’!