I was browsing through Wikipedia and various other pages and came across some simply outrageous comments straight from the mouth of our very own Queen's husband, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
Seriously some of these quotes defy belief, especially coming from a 'high ranking' royal. Although he is a blatant racist, and is a man who simply doesn't give a shit about what he says, to be honest I found some of them quite funny.
Seriously some of these quotes defy belief, especially coming from a 'high ranking' royal. Although he is a blatant racist, and is a man who simply doesn't give a shit about what he says, to be honest I found some of them quite funny.
...Wow.- 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?"
- When visiting China in 1986, he told a group of British students, "If you stay here much longer, you'll all be slitty-eyed".
- After accepting a gift from a Kenyan citizen he replied, "You are a woman, aren't you?"
- "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."
- To a British student in Papua New Guinea: "You managed not to get eaten then?"
- 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, "Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf."
- In 2002, he asked an Indigenous Australian businessman, "Do you still throw spears at each other?"
- 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".
- "Aren't most of you descended from pirates?" (in 1994, to an islander in the Cayman Islands)
- At the University of Salford, he told a 13-year-old aspiring astronaut: "You could do with losing a bit of weight."
- During a Royal visit to a Tamil Hindu temple in London, he asked a Hindu priest if he was related to terrorist organization the Tamil Tigers.
- In 2002, speaking to a blind, wheelchair bound woman who was accompanied by her guide dog, he remarked : "Do you know they're now producing eating dogs for the anorexics?"
- On the personal program with Travor Macdonald, When shown a soldier hit by shrapnel, he asked 'Does it rattle when you shake your head?'
- In an exchange with Lord Taylor of Warwick (who happens to be black) HRH asked: "And what exotic part of the world are you from?", to which Lord Taylor replied "I'm from Birmingham".
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.