"You're about to see the world's most experienced plaque uncoverer."
In May 2017 at the opening of a new stand at London's Lord's Cricket Ground.
"Children go to school because their parents don't want them at home."
in October 2013 to Pakistani child rights activist Malala Yousafzai, who was nearly killed by the Taliban a year earlier for advocating for girls' rights to go to school - for Malala, the saying triggered a fit of giggles.
"There are a lot of your family here tonight, though."
in October 2009 at a reception hosted by the Indian community in the U.K. after glancing at businessman Atul Patel's name tag.
"Are you still throwing spears at each other?"
in 2002 to an Aborigine during a visit to Australia in 2002.
"Do you know that there are now dogs that do the eating for anorexics?"
in 2002 to a blind woman with a guide dog
"Oh, you drive that awful car? You see it all the time on the way to Windsor Castle."
2001 to British pop star Elton John
"Well, you'll never fly in that, you're too fat."
2001 to a 13-year-old who told him he wanted to be an astronaut
"Deaf? No wonder you're deaf here."
1999 to a group of deaf youth standing next to a Caribbean steel band
"And so you managed not to get eaten?"
1998 in Papua New Guinea to a student who had been touring the island nation
"If a cricket player suddenly decided to go to a school and hit a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, which would be easy for him: Would cricket bats then be banned?"
In 1996, on the debate over banning firearms after a rampage at a school in Dunblane, Scotland
"How do they keep the natives here from boozing long enough to pass the test?"
1995 to a Scottish driving instructor
"Your country is one of the most notorious centers for the trade in endangered species."
1991 in Thailand after receiving an environmental protection award.
"If you stay here any longer, you'll get gooks."
In 1986 to a group of British students during a state visit to China
"If it has four legs and is not a chair, if it has two wings and flies but is not an airplane, and if it floats and is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it."
In 1986, during a WWF meeting about Chinese cuisine.
"Thank you madam - you are a woman, aren't you?"
1984 to a native woman in Kenya who presented him with a small gift
"First they all demanded more free time. Now they complain that they are unemployed."
1981 to British unemployed in the midst of a recession
"British women can't cook."
1966 - The Greek-born prince broke the hearts of millions of housewives with this remark in 1966
"I declare this thing open - whatever it is."
1969 during a visit to Canada
"The Philippines must be half empty - you're all here in our hospitals."
In February 2013, during a visit to a London hospital, to a nurse from the Philippines
"Welcome, Mr. Reich Chancellor."
in 1997 to then-German Chancellor Helmut Kohl.
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Mostly black humor, sometimes malicious, his sayings.
RiP Philip, you did not have it easy with the English high nobility and you fought bravely all the decades.
