HRH - Part Two...

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    46. "You have mosquitoes. I have the Press." To the matron of a hospital in the Caribbean in 1966.

    47. "The man who invented the red carpet needed his head examined." On a visit to Brazil, 1968.

    48. "During the Blitz a lot of shops had their windows blown in and sometimes they put up notices saying, 'More open than usual.' I now declare this place more open than usual." Unveiling a plaque at the University of Hertfordshire's new Hatfield campus in November 2003.

    49. An exchange at a press reception to mark the Golden Jubilee in 2002:
    Philip: "Who are you?"
    Simon Kelner: "I'm the editor-in-chief of the Independent, Sir."
    Philip: "What are you doing here?"
    Kelner: "You invited me."
    Philip: "Well, you didn't have to come!"

    50. "No, I would probably end up spitting it out over everybody." Prince Philip declines the offer of some fish from Rick Stein's seafood deli in 2000.

    51. "Any bloody fool can lay a wreath at the thingamy." Discussing his role in an interview with Jeremy Paxman.

    52. "Holidays are curious things, aren't they? You send children to school to get them out of your hair. Then they come back and make life difficult for parents. That is why holidays are set so they are just about the limit of your endurance." At the opening of a school in 2000.

    53. "People think there's a rigid class system here, but dukes have even been known to marry chorus girls. Some have even married Americans." In 2000.

    54. "Can you tell the difference between them?" On being told by President Barack Obama that he'd had breakfast with the leaders of the UK, China and Russia.

    55. "I don't know how they are going to integrate in places like Glasgow and Sheffield." After meeting students from Brunei coming to Britain to study in 1998.

    56. "Do people trip over you?" Meeting a wheelchair-bound nursing-home resident in 2002.

    57. "That's a nice tie ... Do you have any knickers in that material?" Discussing the tartan designed for the Papal visit with then-Scottish Tory leader Annabel Goldie last year.

    58. "I have never been noticeably reticent about talking on subjects about which I know nothing." Addressing a group of industrialists in 1961.

    59. "It's not a very big one, but at least it's dead and it took an awful lot of killing!" Speaking about a crocodile he shot in Gambia in 1957.

    60. "Well, you didn't design your beard too well, did you? You really must try better with your beard." To a young fashion designer at a Buckingham Palace in 2009.

    61. "So you're responsible for the kind of treetreetreetree Channel Four produces!" Speaking to then chairman of the channel, Michael Bishop, in 1962.

    62. "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." Address to the General Dental Council, quoted in Time in 1960.

    63. "Tolerance is the one essential ingredient ... You can take it from me that the Queen has the quality of tolerance in abundance." Advice for a successful marriage in 1997.

    64. "I never see any home cooking - all I get is fancy stuff." Commiserating about the standard of Buckingham Palace cuisine in 1962.

    65. "I suppose I would get in a lot of trouble if I were to melt them down." On being shown Nottingham Forest FC's trophy collection in 1999.

    66. "It makes you all look like Dracula's daughters!" To pupils at Queen Anne's School in Reading, who wear blood-red uniforms, in 1998.

    67. "I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing." Dismissing claims that those who sell slaughtered meat have greater moral authority than those who participate in blood sports, in 1988.

    68. "Ah, so this is feminist corner then." Joining a group of female Labour MPs, who were wearing name badges reading "Ms", at a Buckingham Palace drinks party in 2000.

    69. "Cats kill far more birds than men. Why don't you have a slogan: 'Kill a cat and save a bird?"' On being told of a project to protect turtle doves in Anguilla in 1965.

    70. "All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury." Bemoaning the rate of British tax in 1963.

    71. "It is my invariable custom to say something flattering to begin with so that I shall be excused if by any chance I put my foot in it later on." Full marks for honesty, from a speech in 1956.

    72. "Why don't you go and live in a hostel to save cash?" Asked of a penniless student.

    73. "In education, if in nothing else, the Scotsman knows what is best for him. Indeed, only a Scotsman can really survive a Scottish education." Said when he was made Chancellor of Edinburgh University in November 1953.

    74. "If it doesn't fart or eat hay, she isn't interested." Of his daughter, Princess Anne.

    75. "They're not mating are they?" Spotting two robots bumping in to one another at the Science Museum in 2000.

    76. "I must be the only person in Britain glad to see the back of that plane." Philip did not approve of the noise Concorde made while flying over Buckingham Palace.

    77. "The only active sport, which I follow, is polo - and most of the work's done by the pony!" 1965

    78. "It looks like a tart's bedroom." On seeing plans for the Duke and then Duchess of York's house at Sunninghill Park.

    79. "Reichskanzler." Prince Philip used Hitler's title to address German Chancellor Helmut Kohl during a speech in Hanover in 1997.

    80. "We go into the red next year ... I shall probably have to give up polo." Comment on US television in 1969 about the Royal Family's finances.

    81. "treetreetreetreetreetree the table plan, give me my dinner!" Showing his impatience to be fed at a dinner party in 2004.

    82. "I thought it was against the law these days for a woman to solicit." Said to a woman solicitor..

    83. "You're just a silly little Whitehall twit: you don't trust me and I don't trust you." Said to Sir Rennie Maudslay, Keeper of the Privy Purse, in the 1970s.

    84. "What about Tom Jones? He's made a million and he's a bloody awful singer." Response to a comment at a small-business lunch about how difficult it is in Britain to get rich.

    85. "This could only happen in a technical college." On getting stuck in a lift between two floors at the Heriot Watt University, 1958.

    86. "I'd much rather have stayed in the Navy, frankly." When asked what he felt about his life in 1992.

    87. "It looks like the kind of thing my daughter would bring back from her school art lessons" On being shown "primitive" Ethiopian art in 1965.

    88. "You're not wearing mink knickers, are you?" Philip charms fashion writer Serena French at a World Wildlife Fund gathering in 1993.

    89. "My son ... er ... owns them." On being asked on a Canadian tour whether he knew the Scilly Isles.
     
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      It was the Reichancelor bit that finally spread curry all over the screen.

      Bless Him.

      He exhibits the same lack of censorship as someone who has recently taken LSD, interesting.

      Remember those CIA experiments in the 1960s, they wanted to know what would happen to world leaders if they were exposed to it.

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      I seem to remember that on some overseas trip or other he was shown the prized possession of a small village; a snooker table. As smiling locals did their thing with snooker cues, HRH's guide explained, in faltering English, that it was 'balls, you know'. 'Yes, and balls to you too', responded HRH, before moving swiftly on.
       
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