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Some of his best quips:
1966: "British women can't cook".
1969: "What do you gargle with, pebbles?" To Sir Tom Jones after a Royal Variety Performance.
1981: "Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed." During the 1981 recession.
1984: "You are a woman, aren't you?" In Kenya after accepting a small gift from a local woman.
1986: "If you stay here much longer you'll all be slitty-eyed." To a group of British students during a royal visit to China
1988: "It looks like a tart's bedroom." On seeing plans for the Duke and Duchess of York's house at Sunninghill Park.
1992: "Oh no, I might catch some ghastly disease." In Australia when asked to stroke a koala.
1993: "You can't have been here that long, you haven't got a pot belly". To a Briton he met in Hungary.
1994: "Aren't most of you descended from pirates?" To a wealthy islander in the Cayman Islands.
1995: "How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test." To a Scottish driving instructor.
1996: "If a cricketer, for instance, suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, which he could do very easily, I mean, are you going to ban cricket bats?" In response to calls to ban firearms after the Dunblane shooting.
1997: "Bloody silly fool!" Referring to a Cambridge University car park attendant who did not recognise him.
1999: "Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf." Speaking to a group of young deaf people in Cardiff who were standing near a steel band.
1999: "It looks as if it was put in by an Indian." Referring to an old-fashioned fuse box in a factory near Edinburgh.
2001: "You're too fat to be an astronaut." To 13-year-old Andrew Adams who told Prince Philip he wanted to go into space.
2002: "Still throwing spears?" Question put to an Australian Aborigine
2002: "You look like a suicide bomber." To a young policewoman wearing a bullet-proof vest on Stornoway, Isle of Lewis.
2009: "There's a lot of your family in tonight." After looking at the name badge of businessman Atul Patel at a Palace reception for British Indians.
2009: "Well, you didn't design your beard too well, did you?" To designer Stephen Judge about his tiny goatee beard.
2010: "Do you have a pair of knickers made out of this?" To Scottish Conservative leader Annabel Goldie Pointing while pointing to some tartan in Edinburgh.
2010: "Do you work in a strip club?" To 24-year-old Barnstaple Sea Cadet Elizabeth Rendle when she told him she also worked in a nightclub.
2012: "I would get arrested if I unzipped that dress." To 25-year-old council worker Hannah Jackson, who was wearing a dress with a zip running the length of its front, on a Jubilee visit to Bromley, Kent.
2013: "The Philippines must be half empty as you're all here running the NHS." On meeting a Filipino nurse at Luton and Dunstable Hospital.
2013: "[Children] go to school because their parents don't want them in the house." To Malala Yousafzai, who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban and now campaigns for the right of girls to go to school without fear.
2017: "You look starved." To a pensioner on a visit to the Charterhouse almshouse for elderly men.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40798469?intlink_from_url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/69404763-aefb-4634-ae54-59ad21b6db6d/prince-philip-duke-of-edinburgh&link_location=live-reporting-story
Bonus FP edit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Philip_Movement
CoeurFranc
Love every single declaration. I hate actual censorship under any form, espacialy if it is political correctness .
lapisknight
If nothing else, he's not wrong about koalas. Pap-eating, disease-ridden, lazy motherfuckers.
BigfudgeDrshokk
I've seen more but stuff than I'm proud of on the internet, but he is by far my favorite asshole
GoldenFloor8
"still throwing spears"
secretbison
True story: there is an island where they worship Prince Philip as a divine being.
Lepiment
Your comment got me to google it. Super entertaining articles, thanks !
blackoutdigital
I like how he took a seven year break from saying anything terrible then just went right back into it
notmyfirstrodeo
What else would you expect from the longest lived queen's consort in history? Rather refreshing...
theyregooddogsbrant
Prince Philip is a legend
GhostMalone
I decided I liked him since watching The Crown on Netflix
Syninfection
"1992: "Oh no, I might catch some ghastly disease." In Australia when asked to stroke a koala." ALL Koala's carry chlamydia!
Mellie007
+1 for ridiculous sounding declaration that pretty much turned out to be factual...
Syninfection
I have this driving need to be Right! but its driving me Left
Blamblam101
He's good for diabetics cause there's no sugar coating.
xiafang
but to follow the metaphor he's a fucking candy. his only job is not to be an asshole, and he's an asshole.
nrvagntsoleatr360
Which makes me like him even more, because he doesn't sugarcoat anything.
KotalDom
wheresthebaby
Just discovered that they're brothers
DigitalMilk
"Grandpa, you can't say that!"
Ilikeyogurt
He was on a roll in the '90's lol
AmaIthea
SidneyHarbor
Yeah the guy was born in 1921. Nearly all his comments highlighted above were after he was quite old.
jwan
Is it bad that I kind of love this? I mean-he's an arrogant SOB, but at a dinner party I'd bet the sotto voce commentary would be priceless
jwan
Also, a lot of this is pretty standard for British humor-you tend not to get so offended, in USA people seem to try TO take offense
jwan
I'd love to hear his wife's rebukes later as they're brushing their teeth for bed though. "Darling... keep your gob shut next time, eh?"
KillingTlme
Sounds like my Grandpa's. Apparently, surviving WW2 and then living another 60+ years makes you less filtered.
Selerox
That's the thing, I've heard plenty of old people come out with the same shit, the only difference is that Phil the Greek does it in public.
cajuninjun
after a time we all start giving less and less fucks about what others think.
tr0lleyjack
Ah Phil, you either die a national embarrassment or you live long enough to become a national treasure.
DaftKid
The man created the Duke of Edinburgh award for Children, and did his part in WW2. He'll never be a National Embarrassment.
dildobiscuit
He absolutely could be a national embarrassment. And I personally think probably is.
dontlookatmeever
Well, username checks out British...
jwan
Both, I think.
Buck39
Yeah, he's a bit of both
trumanmanmanman
Him and Harry are the only 2 royals i like.
DorthLous
You dare disrespect our Queen?!
deaconig
Queen and Will are too posh, Philip and Harry seem like blokes you could pop to the pub with
TheDirtySanchezBros
According to the article, he as one more chance to piss strangers off. Let's hope he realizes this and goes fully offensive.
QuietJack
I'm not sure I've ever liked and disliked someone so much at the same time. He's a fucking nutter, which I can certainly respect.
ohnoofcourseyourright
The comment about ppl being mad cause they can't find work shows me just how out of touch his rich fancy spoiled ass really is.
6313326
He's like if people paid attention to that one uncle that most of us have.
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AllTheGoodOnesWereAlreadyTaken
That'll teach him!
cajuninjun
Even Matt Smith, 11th Doctor, who plays him in The Crown said the same thing about him. I like the Prince more after Matt's performance
Analsurprise
Beautiful acting
Pishposhbingbong
He's the embarrassing slightly racist grandad of a nation.
PokeMasterWrath
Then what the fuck is Trump?
fyndir
The embarrassing racist elected representative of a nation? A family moniker is more appropriate for royalty since it's by birth.
ItsCaptain0bvious
Ticks all the boxes. If you removed his name from all these quotes, a lot of people would claim it was their grandad who said those things.
GadenKerensky
Slightly?
JonathanCrane2
Just a tiny bit
Eogos
Yes, actually. Could be much more racist/sexist.
PokeMasterWrath
America said Hold My Beer, and elected Trump
YourWaifuIsTrash
Trump legitimately believes that black people are genetically lazy, and has complained about knowing that black people touch his money.
5555252545
This is a British take on the word, isn't it?
Bigbowlofcobwebs
He's a national treasure
TheGenuineArticle
To students in Papua New Guinea - "You managed not to get eaten then."
sumowoman
Oh god :D
lewaq
Prince by profession, jester by heart.
JinYongLee
All I can think of is Walder Frey
malfunctionm1ke
secretbison
He actually visited the Game of Thrones set in Belfast once. He found Ramsay's castration knife and got really excited by it.
Ilikeyogurt
Source!
secretbison
There's a complete video of the visit. I saw it at winteriscoming.net
Ilikeyogurt
Dot
xVancha
Way less malicious. Most of these would've been said with no ill intent whatsoever, just pure innocent ignorance.
somekindafuckingidiot
he innocently told a kid he was fat? and that a guys beard was ugly? i think innocence isnt an excuse after 60 years or so, he knows better
ISayFuckAllTheTime
Royalty isn't burdened with the tact of lesser folk. Nobody's ever planted one on his fucking chin, so he never had to learn tact.
xVancha
"Most". You've found two arguable exceptions in the entirety of the 00's and '10s. Why not go back to 1997? That one was pretty blatant.
somekindafuckingidiot
my argument is that he doesnt deserve the benefit of the doubt if he demonstrates that degree of rudeness at all. odds are few were innocent
xVancha
By that logic anyone who says anything open to any degree of interpretation should be assumed to be being as rude as they've ever been.
joeyjojosharknado
Imagine if every single stupid thing each one of us uttered during our lifetime was collated and posted online. We'd all look like muppets.
grundig79
supertruffles
Wasn't wrong with the 1992 koala comment.
PoppinLochNessHopster
?*
maliciousGman
They carry chlamydia. I think.
MetaVulture
https://youtu.be/sBp7RybcrHQ?t=6m36s
dontlookatmeever
And I gave it to each and every one of them.
Fukyu2dei
MarioBoon
Except the Dunblane thing, I find humor in all of these quotes
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Tiis
It's more to do with the fact that the royals are supposed to stay outside of politics. Most other quotes are relatively neutral politically
Cal1te
It was a reasonable point to be fair, just not eloquently put. Britain has a massive violent crime problem, just without guns.
MarioBoon
I disagree about the point. It's the boring argument one wants to have against gun control.
NyQuilDaydream
Honestly, I never knew this man existed until last year... I always just assumed that the Queen's husband was long dead.
iwouldshootobytwice
I didn't know this until right now...
srslydude
It was a couple years ago for me. Like wait, he's her husband? I'd always mixed up him and Prince Charles.
ItsClipping
A living fossil. Must be that reptilian blood XD
WithFurtherAdo
Thrown in several hundred years of inbreeding and you're pretty much there.
magmadar
the real reptilians dont make media appearences , the hybrids aka queens bushes rockefellers rothschilds do though.
overworkeddad
Fukin prince charming, Innit he?
iamagrocerybag
No no no. Innee?*
overworkeddad
Cheers m8! American here practicing my cocknery.
deaconig
Prince Philip just don't give a fuck, his public appearances will be missed. Now I'm just waiting for all the butt hurt comments about him.
DorthLous
I mean, the guy made 22,218 solo charity events... Some things are bound to slip through the cracks, especially at his age...
DaftKid
World War 2 Veteran. He's allowed to say what he wants as far as I'm concerned!
DaftKid
Downvotes support of WW2 veteran. Praises them during WW2 posts. Imgur is a truly Bi-Polar place...
Halikarz
I think it's the fact that, just because some one fought a war(they might not have even wanted to fight in) does not excuse them from shit
sumowoman
...All the nazis are WW2 veterans too. They allowed to say what they want as well?
DaftKid
Labeling all Germans that fought in WW2 as "Nazis". Nice one.
sumowoman
I never said anything about Germans.
dildobiscuit
I get the sentiment. But can't help but think that's a daft mindset to have.
DaftKid
They're part of the reason we can go about our lives freely rather than live in fear of going to a camp because we voice our opinion.
dildobiscuit
Yeah -- doesn't mean later actions can't be embarrassing on a national level.
jeandolly
So, he's a bit of a dick. Mildly more amusing than his son at least, who's a bit of a wimp.
palgrave
Charles did P company twice, Andrew fought in the Falklands, Edward was a marine.
daguq
TIL racism = being a bit of a dick, and it is "amusing"
kaboosh5353
When youre old your farts and racism become more tolerable to the public.
SocialMediaMakesUsLessSocial
Can't wait till Kanye gets old then. I wonder if you'll still stand by this comment.
PoppinLochNessHopster
TIL You can stop being a bit of a dick if you make non PC comments.
xVancha
Racism is about intent. It's amusing because the awful things he says come with less maliciousness than your average UKIP supporter.
Cal1te
This, it only seems to be in the last 5-10 years that the 'intent' part appears to have been forgotten.
daguq
He is a man who's led a pampered life, saying racist things with the intention of belittling.
xVancha
How do you know his intention?
W92Baj
Let's see you spend 70 years of your life doing charitable work with everything you do chronicled & reported, and say less than 2 dozen ...
W92Baj
things that some people will criticise you for