SLD
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I'm sure we'll all miss the Royal Family's long running comedy character Prince Philip. Here's some of his best work:
"What do you gargle with? Pebbles?" he told singer Tom Jones at the 1969 Royal Variety Performance. Later he added: "It's difficult to see how it’s possible to become immensely valuable by singing what are the most hideous songs."
"Deaf? If you're near there, no wonder you are deaf," he told a group of deaf school children, who were nearby a Caribbean steel drum band in 2000.
"That's a nice tie ... Do you have any knickers in that material?" he asked Annabel Goldie, the Scottish Conservative leader, when welcoming Benedict XVI to Edinburgh in 2010.
"Just take the f**king picture!" he told a photographer, during a Battle of Britain event in 2015.
“If you stay here much longer, you will go home with slitty eyes.” Said to a British student in China in 1986.
"British women can't cook," he told the Scottish Womens' Institute in 1961.
"I would like to go to Russia very much, although the bastards murdered half my family," at a very heated period of history in 1967.
“You managed not to get eaten then?” Said to someone who had just hiked across Papua New Guinea.
"We don’t come here for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves," he told journalists in Canada in 1976.
“How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?” Said to a Scottish driving instructor in 1995.
“It looks as though it was put in by an Indian.” Description of a fuse box at a Scottish factory in 1999. Later he claimed: “I meant to say cowboys. I just got my cowboys and Indians mixed up.”
"I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing," when dismissing claims those who slaughter for meat have greater moral authority than those who partake in blood sports in 1988.
“There's a lot of your family in tonight.” Said in 2009 to an Indian businessman at an event for British Indians to meet the Queen.
“If it has four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies, but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.” World Wildlife Fund meeting, 1986.
"The Philippines must be half-empty — you're all here running the NHS," he told nurses at Luton and Dunstable Hospital in 2013
“You ARE a woman, aren't you?” Said to a Kenyan woman in 1994 at an award ceremony.
“And what exotic part of the world do you come from?” The question asked in 1999 of British politician Lord Taylor, who is of Jamaican ancestry. Taylor responded with: “Birmingham.”
“Oh no, I might catch some ghastly disease.” When asked in 1992 if he wanted to pat a koala.
“Do you still throw spears at each other?” The Prince to Aboriginal Elder William Brin in Queensland, 2002.
“So who's on drugs here?... HE looks as if he's on drugs.” At Bangladeshi youth club, 2002.
"I don't know how they are going to integrate in places like Glasgow and Sheffield.” Said about a group of students from Brunei.
"Aren't most of you descended from pirates?," he enquired to an islander while in the Cayman Islands in 1994.
"You can't have been here that long — you haven't got a pot belly," he told a British tourist during a visit to Budapest in 1993.
“Reichskanzler.” Calling German chancellor Helmut Kohl by Hitler's title during a speech in 1997.
“It looks like the kind of thing my daughter would bring back from her school art lessons." Said about traditional Ethiopian art.
“Are you all one family?” Said to a mixed race dance group at a Royal Variety Performance.
"Is it a strip club?" he asked when meeting a female Sea Cadet who told the Prince she worked in a nightclub, in 2009.
"You could do with losing a little bit of weight," he told 13-year-old Andrew Adams, after hearing he wanted to become an astronaut while visiting a science museum in 2001.
“Who do you sponge off?” Said to a group of Asian women who were volunteers at a London community centre.
“You look like you’re ready for bed!” Said to the President of Nigeria who was wearing traditional garb.
"What do you gargle with? Pebbles?" he told singer Tom Jones at the 1969 Royal Variety Performance. Later he added: "It's difficult to see how it’s possible to become immensely valuable by singing what are the most hideous songs."
"Deaf? If you're near there, no wonder you are deaf," he told a group of deaf school children, who were nearby a Caribbean steel drum band in 2000.
"That's a nice tie ... Do you have any knickers in that material?" he asked Annabel Goldie, the Scottish Conservative leader, when welcoming Benedict XVI to Edinburgh in 2010.
"Just take the f**king picture!" he told a photographer, during a Battle of Britain event in 2015.
“If you stay here much longer, you will go home with slitty eyes.” Said to a British student in China in 1986.
"British women can't cook," he told the Scottish Womens' Institute in 1961.
"I would like to go to Russia very much, although the bastards murdered half my family," at a very heated period of history in 1967.
“You managed not to get eaten then?” Said to someone who had just hiked across Papua New Guinea.
"We don’t come here for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves," he told journalists in Canada in 1976.
“How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?” Said to a Scottish driving instructor in 1995.
“It looks as though it was put in by an Indian.” Description of a fuse box at a Scottish factory in 1999. Later he claimed: “I meant to say cowboys. I just got my cowboys and Indians mixed up.”
"I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing," when dismissing claims those who slaughter for meat have greater moral authority than those who partake in blood sports in 1988.
“There's a lot of your family in tonight.” Said in 2009 to an Indian businessman at an event for British Indians to meet the Queen.
“If it has four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies, but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.” World Wildlife Fund meeting, 1986.
"The Philippines must be half-empty — you're all here running the NHS," he told nurses at Luton and Dunstable Hospital in 2013
“You ARE a woman, aren't you?” Said to a Kenyan woman in 1994 at an award ceremony.
“And what exotic part of the world do you come from?” The question asked in 1999 of British politician Lord Taylor, who is of Jamaican ancestry. Taylor responded with: “Birmingham.”
“Oh no, I might catch some ghastly disease.” When asked in 1992 if he wanted to pat a koala.
“Do you still throw spears at each other?” The Prince to Aboriginal Elder William Brin in Queensland, 2002.
“So who's on drugs here?... HE looks as if he's on drugs.” At Bangladeshi youth club, 2002.
"I don't know how they are going to integrate in places like Glasgow and Sheffield.” Said about a group of students from Brunei.
"Aren't most of you descended from pirates?," he enquired to an islander while in the Cayman Islands in 1994.
"You can't have been here that long — you haven't got a pot belly," he told a British tourist during a visit to Budapest in 1993.
“Reichskanzler.” Calling German chancellor Helmut Kohl by Hitler's title during a speech in 1997.
“It looks like the kind of thing my daughter would bring back from her school art lessons." Said about traditional Ethiopian art.
“Are you all one family?” Said to a mixed race dance group at a Royal Variety Performance.
"Is it a strip club?" he asked when meeting a female Sea Cadet who told the Prince she worked in a nightclub, in 2009.
"You could do with losing a little bit of weight," he told 13-year-old Andrew Adams, after hearing he wanted to become an astronaut while visiting a science museum in 2001.
“Who do you sponge off?” Said to a group of Asian women who were volunteers at a London community centre.
“You look like you’re ready for bed!” Said to the President of Nigeria who was wearing traditional garb.