One of the stories I’ve been ignoring in this week full of news and drama about Prince Philip’s passing is how the man designed a custom Land Rover to carry his coffin for his funeral procession. People really could not shut up about that. It’s common in the Windsor klan for ageing royals to plan out their funeral arrangements down to the smallest detail, and Philip had apparently been tweaking the plans for this custom Land Rover for more than 18 years. Nearly two decades of careful planning and…. Philip designed a pickup truck:
NEW: Seen for the first time.
The specially built Land Rover which will carry Prince Philip’s coffin on Saturday for his final journey in Windsor to St George’s Chapel.https://t.co/B3ZyIYVl5a pic.twitter.com/2fYDSpqyCf— Chris Ship (@chrisshipitv) April 15, 2021
Philip married his cousin and really wanted his final journey to be in the back of a pickup truck. And this family gets held up as the elite of the elite. Chris Ship at ITV had more details about the truck: it was built using a Land Rover Defender TDS 130 Chassis and the original color was Belize Green, but Philip asked that it be repainted to Dark Bronze Green, the color of most Land Rovers in military use.
(Thanks to friend-of-the-blog Melissa Murray for pointing this out.)
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I don’t hate it. At least it’s practical, rather than a bejewelled monstrosity.
“Philip married his cousin and really wanted his final journey to be in the back of a pickup truck.” DYING. Line of the day.
That got me 😂 best line written today
I mean, when it’s put like that. Married your cousin and had an affair with the wife of another cousin.
He also had an affair with somebody (princess Alexandra) who was both his and the queens cousin. Allegedly Lord Mountbatten (Phillips father figure) was against the affair because he was afraid if they had a child together it could be deformed or something because Alexander and Philip were so closely related.
Isn’t there a place that they hide away members of the family that have certain disabilities or was that just The Crown?
They are far too close to their cousins.
@Myra-I’m guessing that’s why the ‘it’s a private family matter’ line comes up so often from BP. Decades of having to say it..
That line is brilliant.
I kind of like the pickup truck hearse.
I was like…Alabama is that you?
Roll Tide!
@Truthiness @Alexandria HELL YEH!!!! BAWHAAHAAAA
hahahaha!
I cackled.
Best line ever. I’m going back to bed now, my day has peaked early.
I’M HEARING BANJOS. BANJOS EVERYWHERE.
So wrong, yet so right!
….and shotguns. Queue the Lynyrd Skynyrd.
plus it seems like a bit of a waste not to take it offroad
I cannot get the image out of my mind now, of Equerry taking Ol’ Phil off for one last off-road jaunt over on Salisbury Plain. Dukes of Hazard meets Duke of Edinburgh.
Anyone else humming Creedence while reading this thread?
Line of the week, at least. I laughed so hard I nearly had an asthma attack.
Child all they needed was Jethro Bodine and Jed Clampett in the front seat!
“Philip married his cousin and really wanted his final journey to be in the back of a pickup truck.”
I am screaming. OMG.
🤣🤣🤣
This makes me sideeye all the brits that tease/mock americans for using pickup trucks and insinuate we’re somewhat lower class bc of it only for the upper class to use one is ironic as hell
I’m sorry. This is the Royal Family. One would think this was Uncle Willis’ funeral from Arkansas.😂 I’m going to hell, I can’t help it.
not uncle willis from arkansas!!!! 😂😂😂
I am laughing 🤣 .
Well, it ain’t no cowboy Cadillac, but if that’s what he wants …
And I look forward to seeing the thing repurposed after the funeral. With any luck, we’ll get pics of it hauling bales of hay for the Queen’s horses someday.
Or, on a parade day, hang crepe paper flowers all over it, and have Katie Keen waving to the crowd from the pickup bed.
I read they were going to bury him in it?!
I love a good pickup truck, but it’s hilarious that they keep touting his rich person hobby as him having “a knack for design.” If anything it makes him look like a bored aristo who forces his staff/subjects to change the color of things for no reason.
Msybe that’s where Keen got it from.
Would somebody with a “knack” for something take 18 years to do it?
I mean…it was to be his final resting place as the consort to the Queen. I may not take that long, but why not?
and there we were having a go at Keen taking 8 years to come up with 5 questions.
Phil to Keen : don’t be in such a rush. You got another 10 years to get this.
This amazingly mediocre bunch.
Well, personally, I love it.
Me, too. I think it’s kind of a boss move on Philip’s part, if indeed he requested it.
I swear the guys that just cut down the tree in my front yard had this exact truck for grinding up and hauling away the debris.
I read this and now I am deceased
please plant nice flowers on my grave lmao
Reddit had a good thread yesterday about things that are considered classy if you’re rich and trashy if you’re not. This fits right in!
I mean the ordinary man can’t call up Land Rover to design a hearst for his funeral. Only the elite of the elite can do that. I think this entire story is tone-deaf given the current circumstances.
That’s not quite what I was expecting lol.
Can’t say i love it but at least they are adding a personal touch
‘Phillip married his cousin’…what does this mean ?
It means just that. Philip and Elizabeth were….second cousins? second cousins once removed? Something like that.
Phillip & QEII are cousins both through Queen Victoria and through Christian IX of Denmark.
They are third cousins through Queen Victoria and second cousins once removed through King Christian IX of Denmark.
Well that explains Charles then….
They’re both great great grandchildren of Queen Victoria, I think.
Absolutely nothing, because they were third cousins.
It’s… strange… But ok… Why not?
Any guesses as to why he’d do this? I wonder if it’s a big “f you” to protocol? Feels like it. Or an inside joke? Or maybe he really is the type of guy who marries his cousin and wanted a truck for a hearse.
And I’d love to have been a fly on the wall when he was planning this funeral. The men in grey must have blown their collective gaskets!
I’m guessing he’s just self indulgent. Plus the Royal Family have had a long standing relationship with Land Rover.
I really like the look of it. I think it is quite elegant and thoughtfully designed.
Yeah, it looks like a WWII vehicle to me. Having watched way too many WWII era dramas and mysteries, I like the look.
I laughed at the change in color: “no no no, not THAT green, THIS green”
He insisted on making his hearse do military cosplay just like the royals do sometimes.
Honestly, I live in Texas and I’m shocked that “pickup truck hearse” is not already a thing. This is genius, lol. All kidding aside, I actually legit kind of like it? The green makes it work, I think. If it was black like a traditional hearse, it’d seem sillier to me.
Needs some steer horns attached to the hood for the full Texan look. And why this doesn’t have an extended cab, I dunno …
And trucknutz.
Gun rack.
Make it camo!
And a peeing Calvin decal on the back window.
Imagine having the leisure time to do something like that. Height of privilege.
Looks like something the colonizers would bomb around in, in the African Commonwealth countries c. 1950s. Which is actually unsurprising.
I had that same thought. It looks like a colonizer’s vehicular wet dream.
Completely.
aaaaand hopefully this is the end of the Royal Family creating single-use vehicles. Whatever hearse Betty gets in a few years better be good enough for everyone following. I wonder how many proto- types of this one were made and never used since Phil started his project?
Yes! What on earth do you use this for after Saturday?
This is wht i was thinking……will the vehicle be put in a museum somewhere afterwards? Or will it be converted for use going forward?
I simply cant stand wastage in the face of so much suffering in the world….nevermind tht this funeral might be funded (partially) from their prvt wealth.
My thought was “why didn’t they just pop him into a Subaru Forester? Job done!”
Like others, I actually kind of like the color & vintage vibe, but I also find this hilarious. I’m glad Philip thought to add a “lid” on the truck bed. I’m reminded of a time when I was moving houses in SC & had to ride sitting in my friend’s truck bed so the futon mattress didn’t blow out.
I came here to say that the comments for this article are A+ today!!
I hope he had other hobbies as well.
Women and carriage driving, apparently.
Kaiser, dying lololololol
Lol! All it needs is some silver naked ladies on the mudflaps and a dorgi chasing it through the Windsor Great Park.
Oh, I so enjoyed this article and the comments today! Thank you every one for the laughs! Love this site!
I tried to find something nice to say about the pickup, but..nope. Ooh Lordy!