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The Queen's Husband's Hilarious
Check out some of the stuff Prince Philip (Queen Elizabeth's Husband) has said in public. I thort he was meant to be a royal?
Speaking to a driving instructor in Scotland, he asked: "How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?".[6]
When visiting China in 1986, he told a group of British students, "If you stay here much longer, you'll all be slitty-eyed".[6]
After accepting a gift from a Kenyan citizen he replied, "You are a woman, aren't you?"[6]
"If it has four legs and is not a chair, has wings and is not an aeroplane, or swims and is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it." (1986)[6]
In 1966 he remarked that "British women can't cook." [6]
To a British student in Papua New Guinea: "You managed not to get eaten then?"[6]
Angering local residents in Lockerbie when on a visit to the town in 1993, the Prince said to a man who lived in a road where 11 people had been killed by wreckage from the Pan Am jumbo jet: "People usually say that after a fire it is water damage that is the worst. We are still trying to dry out Windsor Castle."[7]
On a visit to the new Welsh Assembly in Cardiff, he told a group of deaf children standing next to a Jamaican steel drum band, "Deaf? No wonder you are deaf standing so close to that racket."[8][6]
He asked an Indigenous Australian, "Still throwing spears?" (2002)[9][6]
When listening to a speech given by Cherie Blair, wife of Tony Blair, in 1999, he was reported by several MPs as having said, very loudly, "you could post a letter through that mouth".
Said to a Briton in Budapest, Hungary, "You can't have been here that long – you haven't got a pot belly." (1993)[6]
To the President of Nigeria, who was dressed in traditional African robes, "You look like you're ready for bed!"[citation needed]
To Lord Taylor of Warwick, who is black: "And what exotic part of the world do you come from?" Lord Taylor: "I'm from Birmingham." (same story told with Bernie Grant as the subject[citation needed]
Seeing a shoddily installed fuse box in a high-tech Edinburgh factory, HRH remarked that it looked "like it was put in by an Indian".[10]
During a Royal visit to China in 1986 he described Peking as "ghastly".[11]
"Aren't most of you descended from pirates?" (in 1994, to an islander in the Cayman Islands)[6]
At the height of the recession in 1981 he said: "Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed."[6]
Upon presenting a Duke of Edinburgh Award to a student, when informed that the young man was going to help out in Romania for six months, he asked if the student was going to help the Romanian orphans; upon being informed he was not, he said words to the effect of "Good, they [the Romanians] breed orphans over there."[citation needed]
At Salford University, he told a 13-year-old aspiring astronaut: "You could do with losing a bit of weight."[12]
In 1997, the Duke of Edinburgh, participating in an already controversial British visit to the Amritsar Massacre Monument, provoked outrage in India and in the UK with an offhand comment. Having observed a plaque claiming 2,000 casualties, Prince Philip observed, "That's not right. The number is less."[citation needed]
During a Royal visit to a Tamil Hindu temple in London , he asked a Hindu priest if he was related to the terrorist Tamil Tigers.[6]
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