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Prince William Blames the Stiff Upper Lip Mentality of his Grandmother's War Generation for [Trunc]
Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | January 23, 2019 | Martha Cliff

Posted on 01/23/2019 11:32:15 AM PST by Cecily

The Duke of Cambridge today claimed today's mental health epidemic directly stems from his grandmother's generation and the stiff upper lip mentality maintained during World War II.

Prince William made the comments as he joined New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern at the Mental Health Matters meeting at the World Economic Forum in Davos earlier today.

William, 37, said that people learned to bottle up problems from parents and grandparents who lived through World War II, such as the Queen who was a driver and mechanic with the Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service and Prince Philip, a first lieutenant in the Royal Navy.

King George VI and the Queen Mother famously posed for photographs in the rubble of Buckingham Palace following a Luftwaffe attack on the royal family in September 1940, encapsulating the Blitz spirit.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: greatestgeneration; princewilliam; royals; wwii
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There certainly is a mental health epidemic within the British royal family, but is there a mental health epidemic in Great Britain? The Brits might say, speak for yourself only, William!
1 posted on 01/23/2019 11:32:15 AM PST by Cecily
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To: Cecily

inbred.....


2 posted on 01/23/2019 11:34:39 AM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0ndRzaz2o)
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To: Cecily

It wasn’t the lip that was stiff that caused the problems in the Royals...........


3 posted on 01/23/2019 11:35:23 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: Cecily

So, you would have preferred that her generation fall to their knees in the face of the Nazi war machine and surrender? Just so as to not to have to maintain a stiff upper lip?

Britain will not survive this brood of simpletons.


4 posted on 01/23/2019 11:37:45 AM PST by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: Cecily

He must not be very smart.


5 posted on 01/23/2019 11:38:43 AM PST by yarddog
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To: rjsimmon

my first thought as well.... but then with the push against Brexit by many in the ruling class in GB .... maybe that is indeed what he meant...


6 posted on 01/23/2019 11:41:50 AM PST by reed13k (For evil to triumph it is only necessary that good men do nothing)
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To: Cecily

Having just watched “They Shall Not Grow Old”, and listening to the testimonies of the men who fought WWI, what struck me was how nonchalant they were about the whole thing, it was basically just a job to do.


7 posted on 01/23/2019 11:43:36 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Britain will not survive this brood of simpletons.

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That’s for sure.

In 10-15 years what’s left of the Royals will be living in Canada or some other Commonwealth nation and the Muzzies will be breeding in Buckingham Palace.


8 posted on 01/23/2019 11:45:22 AM PST by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Cecily

Great. So William is now giving the same type of boring, out of touch, PC-scold, New Age touchy-feely speeches as his father.


9 posted on 01/23/2019 11:46:21 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: rjsimmon

Perhaps he would have preferred the Nazi Symp Eddie the Eighth to have stayed King.


10 posted on 01/23/2019 11:46:41 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Cecily

I’m much more concerned about the newest generation of pansies and snowflakes who can’t handle life myself. Bad things happen. That which does not kill you makes you stronger.


11 posted on 01/23/2019 11:48:41 AM PST by KosmicKitty (Opportunities multiply as they are seized.)
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To: Cecily

The mental health epidemic in Great Britain is called liberalism, and the mangy, whacko Muslims they’ve let override their culture, and traditions.


12 posted on 01/23/2019 11:51:57 AM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: dfwgator

Yeah, that would have been stellar. The Royal Family still maintained contact with him after his abdication.


13 posted on 01/23/2019 11:56:14 AM PST by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: Cecily

Great, now we have snowflakes for Royals


14 posted on 01/23/2019 11:59:00 AM PST by HangnJudge
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To: Cecily

Can he really be this bloody stupid?
The “stiff upper lip” thing in the UK goes back centuries and so does “mental health” problems! Looks like his moronic s-i-l had struck again with her lunatic California/Hollyweird crap!


15 posted on 01/23/2019 12:12:50 PM PST by nopardons
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To: yarddog

The Windsors have never bred them for brains.


16 posted on 01/23/2019 12:13:39 PM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: Cecily

well, they did let their country get taken over without so much as a whisper of protest. When Mohammed became the #1 boys name, you know GB had taken a turn.


17 posted on 01/23/2019 12:15:14 PM PST by EDINVA
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To: Cecily

too much inbreeding in the British royal family (and many royal families, going back thousands of years)


18 posted on 01/23/2019 12:17:52 PM PST by faithhopecharity (“Politicians arent born, they’re excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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Great, now we have snowflakes for Royals

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And the Muzzies love it. The Muzzies will be living and breeding in Buckingham Palace within 15 years. The Royals will be living elsewhere.


19 posted on 01/23/2019 12:23:01 PM PST by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Cecily

Mental health is a quandry because inmates have run the asylum for over 50 years. Certifiably crazy people wrote political science screeds that are still taught today. Homosexuality was ‘normalized’ then even celebrated as a higher virtue.


20 posted on 01/23/2019 12:23:06 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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