The Legend that is Prince Philip
The Worlds most Uncommom common man?


He told a Briton he met in Hungary in 1993: "You can't have been here that long - you haven't got a pot belly".

The Prince angered local residents in Lockerbie when on a visit to the town in 1993, he said to a man who lived in a road where 11 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."

During a Royal visit to China in 1986 he described Peking as "ghastly" and told British students: "If you stay here much longer you'll all be slitty-eyed."

He said of Canada: "We don't come here for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves."

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."

In 1966 he provoked outrage by saying: "British women can't cook."

Commenting on stress counselling for servicemen in a TV documentary on the 50th Anniversary of D-Day, he said: "It was part of the fortunes of war. We didn't have counsellors rushing around every time somebody let off a gun, asking `are you all right - are you sure you don't have a ghastly problem?'. You just got on with it."

Personal remarks have annoyed singing stars. In 1969 The Duke said to Tom Jones after the Royal Variety Performance: "What do you gargle with, pebbles?".

At a private lunch given 30 years ago he said he thought Adam Faith's singing was like bath water going down a plug hole.
(The Archduke of South London I'm in your Girlfriend eating her organs, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 16:18, 8 replies)

Clicks ...
I'm so very jealous of that man ...
(Biff..., Wed 22 Oct 2008, 17:40, closed)

if only
just for using the word "ghastly" a lot.

Which is only one step away from beastly.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 17:54, closed)

Beastly...


was, according to his mother George Orwell's first word.

/Irrelevant fact mode.
(fibonacci_cunt cunt, cunt, cuntcunt, cuntcuntcunt,..., Wed 22 Oct 2008, 18:15, closed)

One of my favourite Prince Phillip-isms
was when he was being interviewed, and the conversation turned to wildlife conservation.

"I understand you used to go on tiger shoots?" queried the reporter.

"No no," replied the Prince, "I went on one shoot, and shot one tiger, which happened to be lame anyway. And it was long before you were born, so I don't know how you know about it."

Had me in stiches. Fantastic (if entirely un-pc) bloke.
(Uncle Comrade, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 18:19, closed)

You missed out
In the philipines to an Expat:

"You don't want to stay here too long, you'll go all slitty-eyed"

and the corker in New Zealand when meeting some Maori's:

"So, still chucking spears, eh?"

Also the perennial:

"That looks like it was put up by an Indian"

He's like the offensive grandad you always wished you'd had

(ah, I see you already had the "slitty eyed" cracker)
(mymilkshakebringsallthemongstotheyard poison hearts, poison minds - joining hate, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 18:21, closed)

no the BEST ever is on being given a flower garland...
from a south pacific islander

"thank you my dear...

oh - you are a woman aren't you?"

AND THAT'S WHY WE HAVE A MONARCHY!
( spimf ™ is whoever you want him to be, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 20:31, closed)

He seems to only have a dozen or so ...
"jokes" that he repeatedly trundles out to the horror of his poor minders.

He also did the "Do you still kill each other with those (spear) things?" line whilst in an Aboriginal settlement in Australia.

To which the quick thinking blackfella smiled and replied "Nah, just whitefellas."
(Que?, Thu 23 Oct 2008, 5:34, closed)

Chelsea Flower Show this year:
"That's nice - is it an orchid?"

"Err no your highness, it's a lupin. You see, lupins have a..."

"I didn't come here for a bloody lecture."
(simon shitting mason, Thu 23 Oct 2008, 9:55, closed)