Quote #21

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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  1. Said to a Briton in Budapest, Hungary, 'You can't have been here that long - you haven't got a pot belly.' (1993)[1]
  2. 'Aren't most of you descended from pirates?' (in 1994, to an islander in the Cayman Islands)[1]
  3. In 2002, he asked an Indigenous Australian businessman, 'Do you still throw spears at each other?'[4][1]
  4. At the height of the recession in 1981 he said: 'Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemploy…
  5. 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,…
  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, h…
  7. 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…
  8. At the University of Salford, he told a 13-year-old aspiring astronaut: 'You could do with losing a bit of weight.'[8]

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