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As Prince Philip Royally Messes Up Once Again, We Remember His Top 11 Gaffes

We Remember Prince Phillip's Top 11 Gaffes
Sophie Brown
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EDINBURGH, UNITED KINGDOM - JULY 04: Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh smiles during a visit to the headquarters of the Royal Auxiliary Air Force's (RAuxAF) 603 Squadron on July 4, 2015 in Edinburgh, Scotland. (Photo by Danny Lawson - WPA Pool/Getty Images)
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So Prince Philip, the nation's favourite potty-mouth, has been at it again. This time, he asked a woman at a community centre: "who do you sponge off?"

It was only last week an impatient Duke of Edinburgh was telling a photographer to "just take the fucking picture."

Oh Phil, you do have a way with words.

From the amusing to the hand-over-mouth awful, here are just 11 of his classic blunders:

Prince Philip's Top 12 Gaffes
"Deaf? If you're near there, no wonder you are deaf."(01 of11)
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- 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."(02 of11)
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- 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."(03 of11)
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- To survivors of the Lockerbie bombing.
"You look like you're ready for bed!"(04 of11)
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- 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."(05 of11)
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- At Hertfordshire University.
"Well, you'll never fly in it, you're too fat to be an astronaut."(06 of11)
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- To a 13-year-old child, while visiting the space shuttle.
"You are a woman, aren't you?"(07 of11)
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- To a woman in Kenya.
"You can't have been here long, you haven't got a pot belly."(08 of11)
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- To a tourist in Budapest.
"Are you all one family?"(09 of11)
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- To Britain's Got Talent winners Diversity.
"I thought it was against the law for a woman to solicit."(10 of11)
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- To a woman solicitor.
"Just Take The F***ing Picture"(11 of11)
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To a photographer
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