Quote #23
At the height of the recession in 1981 he said: 'Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.'[1]
More from Duke of Edinburgh Philip
- 'Aren't most of you descended from pirates?' (in 1994, to an islander in the Cayman Islands)[1]
- 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…
- 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]
- At the University of Salford, he told a 13-year-old aspiring astronaut: 'You could do with losing a bit of weight.'[8]
- Said to a Briton in Budapest, Hungary, 'You can't have been here that long - you haven't got a pot belly.' (1993)[1]
- In 1997, the Duke of Edinburgh, participating in an already controversial British visit to the Jallianwala Bagh massacre Monument, provoked…
- In 2002, he asked an Indigenous Australian businessman, 'Do you still throw spears at each other?'[4][1]
- During a Royal visit to a Tamil Hindu temple in London, he asked a Hindu priest if he was related to the terrorist organization the Tamil T…