prince philip

[jbsilverbird]

can anyone tell me where does the queens husband prince philip get all his war decorations from and what for!!!!!!!

[froggequene]

Prince Phillip was a navy man until the Queen actually became queen and regarding the war medals, the clue is in 'war', I believe he served during WWII.

[jbsilverbird]

but! what did he do in the NAVYto deserve the medals?

[froggequene]

http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page438.asp

[froggequene]

I know I'm getting up on high horse here but that information is quite easily available, you could have just typed it into a search engine and it would have led you to the same places as it took me, follow the link I've provided and it should explain a bit more.

[Numbers]

I sympathise wholeheartedly Froggequene, though if everybody did the obvious thing and checked via a search engine first, we'd probably lose a good three-quarters of questions posted!

[brawburd]

can't understand why folk like froggequene state about "obvious information". Nothing is obvious unless you know where it is, and when you find it who is to say the information is accurate? Is there a new rule on this site that says you can't ask a question that someone else may have been able to answer?!

[brawburd]

I have also looked in detail at froggequene's link - and it still doesn't explain what the medals are for. I would assume most are honorary and have absolutely nothing to do with meritorial service?

[jbsilverbird]

it appears that i have ruffled froggequenes feathers, while on the subject of (royals) why should tax payers money keep the likes of all these so called people! and what have they done to deserve our hard earned cash, at the end of the day i can think of several good causes that that money could go to.

[smorodina]

The point, surely, is that answerbank is a more friendly place to ask your question than wading through loads of links on a google page and you stand a chance. therefore, of getting a quick and acurate answer from somebody who has already researched the topic.

[RCP]

Getting back to the original question, people who served were also awarded campaign medals for actually being there. Whatever else I think of him, he certainly saw active service. All those people deserve medals for putting their lives on the line.

[froggequene]

Yes, smordina but even friends fall out and some of us tend to stick their size six and a halfs in where they shouldn't. Jbsilverbird didn't ask a question about some obscure latvian prince who died 500 years ago, the information has been freely available for the last fifty years or so. If it was really a debate on the place of monarchy in British society and the Commonwealth jbsilverbird wanted then perhaps he should pose that question because it's actually a very interesting question.

[jbsilverbird]

well in my oponion, your dear auld philip would never put his life or anything beloning to him on the line, but maybe he got a medal for that SCUD MISSILE he has on his face, (his neb)