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I love the guy, the most unPC bloke in the world:
Whilst on a tour of a factory in northern England, Prince Philip pointed out a fuse box that looked quite old. He said "it looks like it was made by a bloody Indian!"
"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"
"British women can't cook." (1966)
"Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed." (during the 1981 recession)
Told a student from Brunei how sorry he was that the student had to go to Glasgow.
"Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species in the world." (in 1991, in Thailand, after accepting a conservation award)
Welcomed Fat former German chancellor Helmut Kohl as 'Reichskanzler' The title Hitler gave to himself and has never been used since.
Suggested locals were cannibals on a visit to Papua New Guinea by saying to a British student "You managed not to get eaten then?"
Said to a wealthy Cayman Islander, "Aren't you all descended from pirates?"
Asked a Scottish driving instructor "How do you keep the natives off the booze, long enough for them to pass their test"
Told a group of deaf school children at a fund raising event standing next to a Jamaican steel drum band, which was clearly not to Phil The Greek's Liking :- Deaf? No wonder you are deaf, standing so close to that racket"
Recently describing Brazil, he quipped that it would be paradise, if it weren't for the Brazilians.
On a visit to China he described Peking as "ghastly" and said that if you stay too long there you will become "slitty eyed"
Told a student in Budapest that "You can't have been in Budapest that long because you haven't got a pot-belly"
In India visiting a site where the British army, in the years of the Empire, had slaughtered Indian civilians, he was shown a plaque commemorating the 2000 killed to which he quipped "No, no, we didn't slaughter that many"
Told a mother who had recently lost two sons in a house fire that:-
"smoke alarms are a damn nuisance"
After asking a portly young boy what he wanted to do when he grew up, and getting the answer An Astronaught, he quipped, "best start shedding a few pounds then!"
On a tour of Australia, after observing a demonstration of aborigonal spear dancing, he asked, "do you still throw those things at each other then? ", to which he got the short reply, "no we don't go in for that sort of thing anymore"
And later on the same day he was allegedly heard asking a wheelchair user if they got in the way all the time.
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