Quote #17

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 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.'[2]

More from Duke of Edinburgh Philip

  1. To a British student in Papua New Guinea: 'You managed not to get eaten then?'[1]
  2. 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,…
  3. In 1966 he remarked that 'British women can't cook.'[1]
  4. In 2002, he asked an Indigenous Australian businessman, 'Do you still throw spears at each other?'[4][1]
  5. '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…
  6. Said to a Briton in Budapest, Hungary, 'You can't have been here that long - you haven't got a pot belly.' (1993)[1]
  7. After accepting a gift from a Kenyan citizen he replied, 'You are a woman, aren't you?'[1]
  8. 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'.[5][6]

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