if this was just a few people, or a select group, making memes about his death and not caring, you might be onto something. but thousands, if not millions, of people don't just come together and make memes "celebrating" a person's death if they were an upstanding citizen or the pinnacle of humanity. for anyone interested, here is an article going over several of the racist and disgusting comments he's made. of course the bigger issue is that he, and the rest of his family, were responsible for colonizing, pillaging and dividing more than a hundred countries, a lot of which still don't have independence. the royal family continues to reap the benefits of these actions today while the countries effected are still struggling.
prince phillip was not a good person. if you still want to mourn him? fine, i don't care, that's your business, but i sure as hell don't and won't, and i don't think it's anyone else's place to tell others (particularly citizens of the countries that were colonized) that they're callous or disgusting or disrespectful or whatever else for feeling somewhat vindicated by/not caring about the death of someone blatantly sexist, racist, and responsible for the suffering/destruction of countless countries.
You have a point, and again, racial issues have definitely gotten more attention in regards to the royal family with not only how Meghan Markle married into it, but also the fact that her son (and, like I said, the great-grandson of Prince Philip), Archie Mountbatten-Windsor, had, according to Meghan herself, "concerns" about his skin color while she was pregnant with him in 2018 and 2019. Again, much of this surrounding Meghan has garnered more attention after her decision, made with her husband (and Philip's grandson) Prince Harry last year to leave the royal family, which is why they came to Canada and then went on to Meghan's home country of the United States, currently now residing in Los Angeles and, as I said about Meghan Markle, there are reports she is considering a return to her acting career. To be honest, until just now with his death two days ago, I hadn't been too aware of Prince Philip's racist comments (aside from the obviously awful comment he made about a visit to China making you "slit-eyed" in 1986), but like I said earlier (and I'm not trying to downplay this history of racist comments, as well as sexist ones as well, which he has clearly made against women in the past), one reason why I have felt strange since finding out about Philip's death on Friday is that, like I said, his behavior towards his oldest son's marriage to the late Princess Diana back in the '80s and '90s was quite appalling. The fact of the matter is that with how Prince Philip encouraged Prince Charles to have an affair with Camilla Parker Bowles back in 1981 while Charles was having doubts about marrying Diana (and like I said, within five years after he married Diana, in 1986, Charles did restart an affair with Camilla), and the fact that Philip was so insistent Diana should lose her royal highness title once she and Charles got divorced in 1996, which like I said, contributed to Diana's death in the car crash in Paris only the following year, during the summer of 1997. There's no doubt that,
at least indirectly, Princes Philip and Charles, as Princess Diana's respective former father-in-law and ex-husband, contributed to her her death. And again, as Princess Diana was only 36 when she died due to the car crash in France in 1997, it meant that she tragically passed away at a young age (as mentioned in this thread already), and on top of that, Princes Harry and William
had to lose their mother at too young of ages-Harry was only 12 and William was only 15. In all honesty, it surprises me Harry and William don't resent their father and grandfather for this, and given how secretive the royal family is anyway about things
(hence why there are still so many details lacking about how Harry and William's uncle, Prince Andrew, had ties to Jeffrey Epstein), I honestly wouldn't be surprised they actually did, even if Prince Philip is deceased now. In all honesty, with how Philip also played a role in Duchess Sarah, Andrew's ex-wife, losing her own royal highness title with her divorce from Prince Andrew, I think we should all be considering it lucky that Sarah Ferguson is still alive now at 61 years old. (After all, like I said, it was the same year, in 1996, that Andrew and Sarah got divorced that Charles and Diana did, in fact, Sarah Ferguson was one of Princess Diana's friends and that's how Sarah met Prince Andrew)
My main point is that it is true that there are other ways in which that, aside from comments, Prince Philip had conducted himself in appalling manners. Personally, after his death, I don't find the memes about him funny, but it does sort of say a lot at the same time that I have these conflicted feelings about him now posthumously. If anything, Princess Diana felt like Philip, in many ways, had stabbed her in the back, as Philip had seemed to show support to Diana in letters he wrote to her around 1991-1992 once it was clear Diana and Prince Charles's marriage had fallen apart irrevocably.
P.S.: Some of you may have realized that the posts I have liked may be conflicting with one other in terms of the sentiments expressed in light of Prince Philip's death. I want to make myself clear:
likes are not endorsements. In all honesty, there are points about both sides in this debate I can agree with, as while I don't think Philip's death is a cause of celebration or anything,
that does not mean the man wasn't without controversy.
