Prince Philip's Top 10 Gaffes

The Huffington Post UK  |  Posted: Updated: 17/05/2012 11:59

So Phil the Greek - as Ben Elton so charmingly called him - has been at it again. This time, it was telling a woman in a zip-up dress that he'd "get arrested" if he tried to unzip it.

But if only he'd zip up his mouth sometimes, bless him. From the amusing to the hand-over-mouth awful, here are just 10 of his classic blunders:

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  • "Deaf? If you're near there, no wonder you are deaf."

    - To a group of deaf children standing next to a steel band.

  • "It looks like the kind of thing my daughter would bring back from her school art lessons."

    - At an exhibition of 'primitive' Ethiopian art.

  • "People usually say that after a fire it is water damage that is the worst. We are still drying out Windsor Castle."

    - To survivors of the Lockerbie bombing.

  • "You look like you're ready for bed!"

    - To President of Nigeria, who was wearing national dress.

  • "During the Blitz, a lot of shops had their windows blown in and put up notices saying, 'More open than usual'. I now declare this place more open than usual."

    - At Hertfordshire University.

  • "Well, you'll never fly in it, you're too fat to be an astronaut."

    - To a 13-year-old child, while visiting the space shuttle.

  • "You are a woman, aren't you?"

    - To a woman in Kenya.

  • "You can't have been here long, you haven't got a pot belly."

    - To a tourist in Budapest.

  • "Are you all one family?"

    - To <em>Britain's Got Talent </em>winners Diversity.

  • "I thought it was against the law for a woman to solicit."

    - To a woman solicitor.

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So Phil the Greek - as Ben Elton so charmingly called him - has been at it again. This time, it was telling a woman in a zip-up dress that he'd "get arrested" if he tried to unzip it. But if only h...
So Phil the Greek - as Ben Elton so charmingly called him - has been at it again. This time, it was telling a woman in a zip-up dress that he'd "get arrested" if he tried to unzip it. But if only h...
 
 
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11:58 on 18/05/2012
Leave the poor guy alone - he's millions of times better than all the politicians at Westminster put together?

The breath of fresh air who sez what a lot of us are thinking - if only he was allowed to say more or better still a book, "The Real Thoughts of Prince Phillip"?
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22:18 on 17/05/2012
Gaff No.11 = Farthering that total A-hat, waste of space, scrounger "Ponce Andrew"
12:05 on 18/05/2012
Why single Andrew out over the other two?
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12:37 on 18/05/2012
He's by far the most detestable and has taken the term "Self Service" into another dimension.
20:40 on 17/05/2012
He's absolutely priceless but lets face it the majority of his gaffs over the years have either been taken out of context or something that most of us would think and dare not say where he has the courage to say it.
Where would we be if we couldn't have a giggle over his latest gaff that appeared usually on out national news.
18:46 on 17/05/2012
the biggest gaffe was by us...letting him in this country in the first place
19:57 on 17/05/2012
Get over it
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17:26 on 17/05/2012
I've done many jobs in my time, from frying huge quantities of chips (covered in tiny burns) through putting 26oz bottles of lemonade in crates (tore your fingers to shreds) and even watching bottles come off a washer to make sure they were clean (turns you blind and twitchy). I've stood out in the bitter, freezing rain watching a satellite launcher while everybody else crouched indoors playing with the autopilot. I've been p'd on by lions (literally) I've been alone in an aeroplane frightened s''tless, I've been eyeball to eyeball with a lion fish at 25 metres below the surface, found out for a fact that a car doesn't fly straight and level, a very large rocket engine at 200 metres makes your belly shake, that when the kit begins to glow it's nice be sure where the off switch can be found, that you can get so excited that you forget to turn the system off and you and Prince Philip get within 2.3 seconds of being wiped off the planet (he doesn't know about that little mistake) and I've stood on stage in front of 2,000 people and wished I could remember the words. Even after all that I wouldn't have his job. Thnkyou but no - there just isn't enough money.
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16:56 on 17/05/2012
Why does someone not tell this old twit to button his lip,and go to live in Barnsley on the state pension. Come to think of it, he(like the rest of his bunch) has never done a days work in his life, so no pension. Big Issue?....................
20:41 on 17/05/2012
No pension,so what you keep him ,dont you.
11:30 on 18/05/2012
We could always deport him and his brood to St Kilda.........................
13:58 on 17/05/2012
He belongs up there with Monty Python, Mr Bean, Fry and Laurie as one of Britain's great comedians.
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11:42 on 17/05/2012
When asked if he would like to visit the Soviet Union: "I would like to go to Russia very much, although the bastards murdered half my family." Classic.
16:57 on 17/05/2012
Yes,but they missed one...............
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22:23 on 17/05/2012
Well you better create a UK Bolshevik Party! 
11:05 on 17/05/2012
Davros.