He has had some very unpolitically correct statements over the years , here is a few more :
Are you Indian or Pakistani? I can never tell the difference between you chaps. Prince Philip At Washington Embassy reception for Commonwealth members.
British women can't cook. They are very good at decorating food and making it attractive. But they have an inability to cook. Prince Philip Addressing mainly female audience at Scottish Rural Women's Institute Display in 1966.
Do you still throw spears at each other? Prince Philip To Australian Aborigines, during a visit to Queensland, 2002.
If you travel as much as we do, you appreciate how much more aircraft have become. Unless you travel in something called economy class, which sounds ghastly. Prince Philip During Royal Jubilee tour in 2002.
I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing. Prince Philip Speech in December 1988, dismissing claims who sell slaughtered meat have greater moral authority than those who participate in blood sports.
Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf. Prince Philip To group of deaf children standing next to Jamaican steel drum band, on visit to new National Assembly for Wales, 1999.
When a man opens the car door for his wife, it's either a new car of a new wife. Prince Philip March 1988.
Dontopedalogy is the science of opening your mouth and putting your foot in it, a science which I have practiced for a good many years. Prince Philip Address to General Dental Council, quoted in Time November 21, 1960.
How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test. Prince Philip To Scottish driving instructor, 1995.
Tolerance is the one essential ingredient You can take it from me that the Queen has the quality of tolerance in abundance. Prince Philip His recipe for a successful marriage, during celebrations for their golden wedding anniversary, November 1997.
I can only assume that it is largely due to the accumulation of toasts to my health over the years that I am still enjoying a fairly satisfactory state of health and have reached such an unexpectedly great age. Prince Philip Speech to Corporation of the City of London, June 2001.
If it has got four legs and is not a chair, if it has two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it. Prince Philip Commenting on Chinese eating habits to World Wildlife Fund conference in 1986.
Ghastly. Prince Philip Commenting on Beijing, China, during 1986 official visit there.
If a cricketer, for example, 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? Prince Philip Amid calls to ban firearms after the massacre of 16 children and their teacher in Dunblane, Scotland, in 1996.
Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed. Prince Philip At the height of the recession in 1981.
If you stay here much longer you'll all be slitty-eyed. Prince Philip To British students in China during Royal visit there in 1986.
It looks as if it was put in by an Indian. Prince Philip Pointing at an old-fashioned fuse box while on a tour of a factory near Edinburgh.
Bloody silly fool! Prince Philip Referring to a Cambridge University car park attendant who failed to recognize him, 1997.
Aren't most of you descended from pirates? Prince Philip To islander in the Cayman Islands, 1994.
You managed not to get eaten, then. Prince Philip To student who had been trekking in Papua New Guinea in 1998, suggesting Papuan tribes people were still cannibals.
Aren't there any male supervisors? This is a nanny city. Prince Philip In San Francisco on meeting five city officials - all of whom were female.
People usually say that after a fire it's the water damage that's the worst. We're STILL trying to dry out Windsor castle. Prince Philip To grieving residents of Lockerbie, Scotland, during a 1993 visit after a plane exploded and crashed into the town, killing everyone on board and several people on the ground (and shortly after a fire swept through one wing of Windsor Castle).
We don't come here for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves. Prince Philip On Canada.
You can't have been here that long, you haven't got a potbelly. Prince Philip To a Briton residing in Hungary, 1993.
You were playing your instruments weren't you? Or do you have tape recorders under your seats? Prince Philip Congratulating a school band on their performance in Australia.
You are a woman, aren't you? Prince Philip In Kenya in 1984, after accepting a gift from an indigenous woman.
If you gave a seven-year-old a brush and paints he'd produce something like that. Prince Philip In the Sudan, after viewing some of the paintings housed in the country's ethnic museum.
The bastards murdered half my family. Prince Philip In room full of press agents, commenting on Russians in 1967, having been asked whether he would consider a visit there.
What do you gargle with - pebbles? Prince Philip To singer Tom Jones, after 1969 Royal Variety Performance.
I never see any home cooking - all I get is fancy stuff. Prince Philip Remark in 1962 taken as a slight against Buckingham Palace chefs, and later had to be qualified.
All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury. Prince Philip May 1963.
We live in what virtually amounts to a museum - which does not happen to a lot of people. Prince Philip February 1964.
Gentlemen, I think it is about time we 'pulled our fingers out' If we want to be more prosperous we're simply got to get down to it and work for it. The rest of the world does not owe us a living. Prince Philip Speech in October 1961.
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. Prince Philip Commenting on stress counselling for servicemen in a TV documentary on the 50th Anniversary of D-Day.
It's a pleasant change to be in a country that isn't ruled by its people. Prince Philip To Alfredo Stroessner, the Paraguayan dictator.
The best thing to do with a degree is to forget it. Prince Philip At the University of Salford.
