The Taoiseach has invited Queen Elizabeth for an official visit to Ireland. Presumably she’ll bring the ball-and-chain so brace yourself for Prince Philip’s verdict on the Irish.
The Duke of Edinburgh has a long list of politically incorrect and terribly inappropriate gaffes. He has been to Dublin and was very well behaved but the list below shows what he’s capable of….
- “How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?”
- Said to a driving instructor in Scotland.
- “If you stay here much longer, you’ll all be slitty-eyed.”
- Said in 1986 to a group of British students in China.
- “You are a woman, aren’t you?”
- After accepting a gift from a Kenyan woman.
- “You managed not to get eaten then?”
- Said to a British student in Papua Ne Guinea
- “People usually say that after a fire it is water damage that is the worst. We are still trying to dry out Windsor Castle.”
- Said on a visit to Lockerbie in 1993 to a man who lived in a road where eleven people had been killed by wreckage from the Pan Am jet.
- “Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf.”
- On a visit to Wales, said to a group of deaf children standing next to a steel drum band.
- “Do you still throw spears at each other?”
- Said in 2002 to an indigenous Australian businessman.
- “You can’t have been here that long — you haven’t got a pot belly.”
- Said to a Briton in Budapest.
- “Ah good, there’s so many over there you feel they breed them just to put in orphanages.”
- Said while presenting a Duke of Edinburgh Award to a student. When informed that the young man was going to help out in Romania for six months.
- “Well, you’ll never fly in it, you’re too fat to be an astronaut.”
- Said to a 13-year-old aspiring astronaut, who was wishing to fly the NOVA rocket.
- “Do you know they’re now producing eating dogs for the anorexics?”
- Said in 2002 to a blind, wheelchair-bound woman who was accompanied by her guide dog.
- “How can you tell the difference between them?”
- Said to United States President Barack Obama after being told that Obama had met with The Chinese and Russian ambassadors.
- “There’s a lot of your family in tonight”
- Said in November 2009 to a Mr Patel (common Indian Surname) at a reception for 400 British Indian businessmen at Buckingham Palace.
