More from Duke of Edinburgh Philip

  1. '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.' (1…
  2. To a British student in Papua New Guinea: 'You managed not to get eaten then?'[1]
  3. After accepting a gift from a Kenyan citizen he replied, 'You are a woman, aren't you?'[1]
  4. 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 eleven people…
  5. When visiting China in 1986, he told a group of British students, 'If you stay here much longer, you'll all be slitty-eyed'.[1]
  6. On a visit to the new National Assembly for Wales in Cardiff, he told a group of deaf children standing next to a Jamaican steel drum band,…
  7. 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…
  8. In 2002, he asked an Indigenous Australian businessman, 'Do you still throw spears at each other?'[4][1]

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