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Prince Philip is revered for being the Queen\u2019s loyal husband and longest serving consort but the British Public will always remember him for putting his foot in it!<\/p>\n

Check out these top 40 outrageous quotes from his more embarrassing Royal Visits:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. \u201cBritish women can\u2019t cook\u201d \u2013 in Britain in 1966.<\/li>\n
  2. \u201cDo you still throw spears at each other?\u201d \u2013 in Australia in 2002, talking to a successful Aboriginal entrepreneur.<\/li>\n
  3. \u201cWhat do you gargle with \u2013 pebbles?\u201d \u2013 speaking about singer Tom Jones\u2019 famous \u2018gravelly\u2019 voice after the 1969 Royal Variety Performance.<\/li>\n
  4. \u201cI declare this thing open, whatever it is\u201d \u2013 on a visit to Canada in 1969.<\/li>\n
  5. \u201cEverybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed\u201d – during the 1981 recession.<\/li>\n
  6. \u201cIf it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it\u201d \u2013 at a 1986 World Wildlife Fund meeting.<\/li>\n
  7. \u201cYak, yak, yak; come on, get a move on\u201d \u2013 shouted from the deck of the Royal Yacht Britannia in Belize in 1994 to the Queen, who was chatting to her hosts.<\/li>\n
  8. \u201cWe didn\u2019t have counsellors rushing around every time somebody let off a gun, asking \u2018Are you all right? Are you sure you don\u2019t have a ghastly problem?\u2019 You just got on with it\u201d \u2013 about the Second World War, commenting on modern stress counselling for servicemen in 1995.<\/li>\n
  9. \u201cHow do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?\u201d \u2013 to a driving instructor in Oban, Scotland, in 1955.<\/li>\n
  10. \u201cAren\u2019t most of you descended from pirates?\u201d \u2013 to a wealthy islander in the Cayman Islands in 1994.<\/li>\n
  11. \u201cYou managed not to get eaten, then?\u201d \u2013 said in 1998 to a student who had been trekking in Papua New Guinea that tribes there were still cannibals.<\/li>\n
  12. \u201cBloody silly fool!\u201d \u2013 talking to a Cambridge University car park attendant who did not recognise him.<\/li>\n
  13. \u201cDeaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf\u201d \u2013 to young deaf people in Cardiff in 1999, referring to a school\u2019s steel band.<\/li>\n
  14. \u201cThey must be out of their minds\u201d \u2013 in the Solomon Islands in 1982, when he was told that the annual population growth was 5%.<\/li>\n
  15. \u201cYou are a woman, aren\u2019t you?\u201d \u2013 in Kenya in 1984, after accepting a small gift from a local woman.<\/li>\n
  16. \u201cIf you stay here much longer, you\u2019ll all be slitty-eyed\u201d \u2013 to British students in China, during the 1986 state visit.<\/li>\n
  17. \u201cYour country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species in the world\u201d \u2013 in Thailand in 1991, after accepting a conservation award.<\/li>\n
  18. \u201cOh no, I might catch some ghastly disease\u201d \u2013 in Australia in 1992, when asked to stroke a koala.<\/li>\n
  19. \u201cYou can\u2019t have been here that long \u2013 you haven\u2019t got a pot belly\u201d \u2013 to a Briton in Budapest, Hungary, in 1993.<\/li>\n
  20. \u201cIf the man had succeeded in abducting Anne, she would have given him a hell of a time while in captivity\u201d \u2013 on a gunman who tried to kidnap the Princess Royal in 1974.<\/li>\n
  21. \u201cI hope he breaks his bloody neck\u201d \u2013 when a photographer covering a royal visit to India fell out of a tree.<\/li>\n
  22. In 1997 in Germany, he welcomed German Chancellor Helmut Kohl at a trade fair as \u201cReichskanzler\u201d \u2013 the last German leader who used that title was Adolf Hitler.<\/li>\n
  23. \u201cYou\u2019re too fat to be an astronaut\u201d \u2013 to 13-year-old Andrew Adams who told thew Duke in 2001 that he wanted to go into space.<\/li>\n
  24. \u201cI wish he\u2019d turn the microphone off\u201d \u2013 said at the Royal Variety Performance in 2001 as he watched Sir Elton John perform.<\/li>\n
  25. \u201cWhen a man opens a car door for his wife, it\u2019s either a new car or a new wife\u201d \u2013 on marriage.<\/li>\n
  26. \u201cYou look like a suicide bomber\u201d \u2013 to a young female officer wearing a bullet-proof vest on Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, in 2002.<\/li>\n
  27. \u201cDo you know they\u2019re now producing eating dogs for anorexics?\u201d \u2013 to a blind woman outside Exeter Cathedral in 2002.<\/li>\n
  28. \u201cWell, you didn\u2019t design your beard too well, did you?\u201d \u2013 to designer Stephen Judge about his tiny goatee beard in July 2009.<\/li>\n
  29. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of your family in tonight\u201d \u2013 after looking at the name badge of businessman Atul Patel at a Buckingham Palace reception for British Indians in 2009.<\/li>\n
  30. \u201cDo you work it a strip club?\u201d \u2013 to 24-year-old Barnstaple Sea Cadet Elizabeth Rendle in 2010, after she told him she worked in a nightclub.<\/li>\n
  31. \u201cDo you have a pair of knickers made out of this?\u201d \u2013 pointing to some tartan \u2013 to Scottish Conservative leader Annabel Goldie at a papal reception in Edinburgh in September 2010.<\/li>\n
  32. \u201cBits are beginning to drop off\u201d \u2013 on approaching his 90th birthday in 2011.<\/li>\n
  33. \u201cHow many people have you knocked over this morning on that thing?\u201d \u2013 meeting disabled David Miller, who drives a mobility scooter, at the Valentine Mansion in Redbridge in March 2012.<\/li>\n
  34. \u201cI would get arrested if I unzipped that dress\u201d \u2013 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, south-east London, in May 2012.<\/li>\n
  35. \u201cThe Philippines must be half empty as you\u2019re all here running the NHS\u201d \u2013 on meeting a Philipine nurse at a Luton hospital in February 2013.<\/li>\n
  36. \u201cMost stripping is done by hand\u201d \u2013 to 83-year-old Mars factory worker Audrey Cook when discussing how she used to strip or cut Mars Bars by hand in 2013.<\/li>\n
  37. \u201cDo you get bonus points if you knock her off?\u201d \u2013 after spotting a toddler sat on an inflatable ball during at activity class in 2013.<\/li>\n
  38. \u201c(Children) go to school because their parents don\u2019t want them in the house\u201d \u2013 prompting giggles from Malala Yousafzai, who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban after campaigning for the right of girls to go to school in October 2013.<\/li>\n
  39. \u201cJust take the f***** picture\u201d \u2013 losing patience with an RAF photographer at events to mark the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain in July 2015.<\/li>\n
  40. \u201cGentlemen, I think it is time we pulled our fingers out\u201d \u2013 to the Industrial Co-Partnership Association on Britain\u2019s inefficient industries in 1961.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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Check out these top 40 outrageous quotes from his more embarrassing Royal Visits: \u201cBritish women can\u2019t cook\u201d \u2013 in Britain in 1966. \u201cDo you still throw spears […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features"],"yoast_head":"\nPRINCE PHILIP’S ALL TIME GREATEST GAFFES - Brighton<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/rocksmag.com\/brighton\/prince-philips-all-time-greatest-gaffes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PRINCE PHILIP’S ALL TIME GREATEST GAFFES - Brighton\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Prince Philip is revered for being the Queen\u2019s loyal husband and longest serving consort but the British Public will always remember him for putting his foot in it! 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