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Prince Phillip love the ole geezer

After being told that Madonna was singing the Die Another Day theme in 2002: “Are we going to need ear plugs?”

To a car park attendant who didn’t recognise him in 1997, he snapped: “You bloody silly fool!”

To Simon Kelner, republican editor of The Independent, at Windsor Castle reception: “What are you doing here?” “I was invited, sir.” Philip: “Well, you didn’t have to come.”

After accepting a conservation award in Thailand in 1991: “Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species.”

To multi-ethnic Britain’s Got Talent 2009 winners Diversity: “Are you all one family?”

To President of Nigeria, who was in national dress, 2003: “You look like you’re ready for bed!”

To deaf children by steel band, 2000: “Deaf? If you’re near there, no wonder you are deaf.”

To a tourist in Budapest in 1993: “You can’t have been here long, you haven’t got a pot belly.”

To a British trekker in Papua New Guinea, 1998: “You managed not to get eaten then?”



16 To Atul Patel at reception for influential Indians, 2009: “There’s a lot of your family in tonight.”

Peering at a fuse box in a Scottish factory, he said: “It looks as though it was put in by an Indian.” He later backtracked: “I meant to say cowboys.”

To Lockerbie residents after plane bombing, 1993: “People say after a fire it’s water damage that’s the worst. We’re still drying out Windsor Castle.”

In Canada in 1976: “We don’t come here for our health.”

“I never see any home cooking – all I get is fancy stuff.” 1987

On the Duke of York’s house, 1986: “It looks like a tart’s bedroom.”

“We go into the red next year... I shall have to give up polo.” 1969.

At party in 2004: “Bugger the table plan, give me my dinner!”

To a woman solicitor, 1987: “I thought it was against the law for a woman to solicit.”

To a civil servant, 1970: “You’re just a silly little Whitehall twit: you don’t trust me and I don’t trust you.”