Prince Philip
BBC Radio 1 Announced Prince Philip’s Death in the Middle of a Techno Song—And TikTok Had a Field Day
Since this is 2021, when news is force-fed down our throats like ipecac syrup, odds are you heard about the death of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. The passing of the storied prince at the age of 99 sent ripples throughout Europe, as many mourned his death while others bemoaned his checkered past. Regardless, the BBC abandoned its entire slate of programming to dedicate blanket coverage of the news, slashing its TV and radio schedule and drawing a staggering 110,000 complaints from the public. Apparently the news of Prince Philip’s death abruptly invaded each channel like a targeted coup. During Radio 1’s “Classic Dance Anthems with Charlie Hedges” show, dance music fans were raging to Alan Fitzpatrick‘s techno banger “We Do What We WantR...
Lana Del Rey Gets Backlash After Sharing Photos of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip
In one image, Queen Elizabeth is seen smiling up at Prince Philip, while another shows a black-and-white snapshot of the longtime partners holding two of their young children. Many of Del Rey’s nearly 19 million Instagram followers took issue with her post, noting that Philip and Elizabeth were distant relatives. “Mmm i love how they were cousins<3,” one person commented. Another wrote, “Bestie they’re related.” Others begged the singer to remove the post. “Please delete this I can’t keep defending you,” a fan responded, while another suggested, “Step away from the phone BFF.” Prince Philip died on Friday at Windsor Castle in England. He was 99. In late March, Del Rey released her newest album, Chemtrails Over the Country...
Prince Charles pays tribute to ‘my dear papa’ Philip for devoted service
Britain’s Prince Charles paid a personal tribute on Saturday to his “dear papa” Prince Philip, saying the royal family missed him emormously and that the 99-year-old would have been amazed at the touching reaction across the world to his death. Philip, the husband of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth who had been at her side throughout her record-breaking 69-year reign, died at Windsor Castle on Friday. “As you can imagine, my family and I miss my father enormously,” Charles, the couple’s eldest son and heir to the throne, said outside his Highgrove House home in west England. “My dear papa was a very special person who I think above all else would have been amazed by the reaction and the touching things that have been said about him and from that point of view we are, my family, deeply grateful f...
