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| style="background: #ccf; text-align: center;"| '''[[United Kingdom]]'''
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! Said to...
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! May have offended...<ref>Principle group(s); others may also find the comment offensive.</ref>
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| style="text-align: center;"|[[History of the United Kingdom|History]] • [[Government and politics of the United Kingdom|Politics]] • [[Culture of the United Kingdom|Culture]]
| [[Oban]], [[Scotland]]
| Driving instructor
| "How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?"
| [[Scottish people|Scots]]
| [[BBC]] News, March 2002<ref>''BBC News'': [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1848553.stm Long line of princely gaffes]'. 1st March 2002.</ref>
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| style="text-align: center;"| '''Capital:''' [[London]]
| [[China]]
| [[United Kingdom|British]] [[student]]s
| "If you stay here much longer, you'll all be slitty-eyed."
| [[Chinese people|The Chinese]]
| [[BBC]] News, March 2002<ref>''BBC News'': [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1848553.stm Long line of princely gaffes]'. 1st March 2002.</ref>
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| style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000"|
| [[Kenya]]
| [[Kenyan people|Kenyan]] tribeswoman
| "You are a [[woman]], aren't you?"
| [[Kenyan people|Kenyans]]; [[African people|African]]s
| [[BBC]] News, March 2002<ref>''BBC News'': [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1848553.stm Long line of princely gaffes]'. 1st March 2002.</ref>
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| [[England]] • [[London]]
| [[World Wildlife Fund]] meeting
| WWF delegates; the world
| "If it has four [[leg]]s and is not a [[chair]], has [[wing]]s and is not an [[aeroplane]], or [[swimming|swims]] and is not a [[submarine]], the [[Cantonese people|Cantonese]] will eat it."
| [[Cantonese people|The Cantonese]]; other Chinese people
| [[BBC]] News, March 2002<ref>''BBC News'': [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1848553.stm Long line of princely gaffes]'. 1st March 2002.</ref>
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| style="padding-left: 1.0em;"|[[Regions of England|Regions]]
|  
| The world
| "British women can't cook."<ref>British television [[chef]] [[Gordon Ramsay]] said a similar thing in 2005; though he only remarked that ''young'' British women couldn't cook. See ''[[Daily Telegraph]]'': '[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/10/23/ncook23.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/10/23/ixhome.html Can't cook, won't cook]', 22nd October 2005.</ref>
| [[Woman|Women]]
| [[BBC]] News, March 2002<ref>''BBC News'': [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1848553.stm Long line of princely gaffes]'. 1st March 2002.</ref>
|-
|-
| style="padding-left: 1.0em;"|[[History of England|History]]
| [[Papua New Guinea]]
| British student
| "You managed not to get eaten then?"
| [[Papua New Guinea people|Papua New Guineans]]
| [[BBC]] News, March 2002<ref>''BBC News'': [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1848553.stm Long line of princely gaffes]'. 1st March 2002.</ref>
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|-
| style="padding-left: 1.0em;"|[[English language|Language]]
| [[Lockerbie]], Scotland
| Survivor of the [[Lockerbie Bombing]] living on a road where 11 residents had died
| "People usually say that after a fire it is water damage that is the worst. We are still trying to dry out [[Windsor Castle]]."
| Victims' families; survivors
| [[BBC]] News, March 2002<ref>''BBC News'': [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/416992.stm Prince Philip's gaffes]'. 10th August 1999.</ref>
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|-
| style="padding-left: 1.0em;"|[[English people|People]]
| [[Cardiff]], Wales
| [[Teenager]]s from the [[British Deaf Association]] near a [[Jamaica]]n [[steel drum]] band
| Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf."
| [[Deaf people]]; [[Jamaican people|Jamaican]]s; steel drummers
| [[BBC]] News, March 2002<ref>''BBC News'': [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/354666.stm Deaf insulted by duke's remark]'. 10th August 1999.</ref>
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| [[Australia]]
| [[Indigenous Australian people|Australian Aboriginal]]s
| "Still throwing [[spear]]s?"  
| Aboriginal people<ref>The BBC reports that the addressee took no offence.</ref>
| [[BBC]] News, March 2002<ref>''BBC News'': [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/1848813.stm Prince Philip's spear 'gaffe']'. 1st March 2002.</ref>
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| [[Scotland]] • [[Edinburgh]]
| [[Budapest]], [[Hungary]]
| British citizen
| "You can't have been here that long - you haven't got a pot belly."
| [[Hungarian people|Hungarians]]
| [[BBC]] News, March 2002<ref>''BBC News'': [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1848553.stm Long line of princely gaffes]'. 1st March 2002.</ref>
|-
|-
| style="padding-left: 1.0em;"|[[Regions of Scotland|Regions]]
| [[Edinburgh]], Scotland
| [[Electronics]] company workers
| [Seeing a [[fuse box]]] "It looks as though it was put in by an [[Indian people|Indian]]."
| [[Indian people|Indians]]<ref>The BBC reported that the Duke was defended by Dr [[Shanfi Kauser]], Secretary of the Islamic Centre in Glasgow: "He is a nice man and I don't think he has done anything out of malice. I believe he has not done anything wrong. On other occasions he has been very complimentary to us. We should not bring him into a dispute. I think he should be excused."</ref>
| [[BBC]] News, March 2002<ref>''BBC News'': [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/416297.stm Royal apology for race remark]'. 10th August 1999.</ref>
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|-
| style="padding-left: 1.0em;"|[[History of Scotland|History]]
| [[China]]
| The world
| [On [[Beijing]]] "Ghastly."
| The people of Beijing; The Chinese (again)
| [[BBC]] News, August 1999<ref>''BBC News'': [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/416992.stm Prince Philip's gaffes]'. 10th August 1999.</ref>
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|-
| style="padding-left: 1.0em;"|[[Language of Scotland|Language]]
| [[Cayman Islands]]
| Cayman Islander
| [On [[Beijing]]] "Ghastly."
| Cayman Islanders
| [[BBC]] News, March 2002<ref>''BBC News'': [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1848553.stm Long line of princely gaffes]'. 1st March 2002.</ref>
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| style="padding-left: 1.0em;"|[[Scottish people|People]]
| UK (at the height of the 1981 [[recession]])
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| The world
| style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000"|
| "Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are [[unemployment|unemployed]]."
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| The unemployed; anyone made [[redundancy|redundant]]
| [[Wales]] • [[Cardiff]]
| [[BBC]] News, March 2002<ref>''BBC News'': [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1848553.stm Long line of princely gaffes]'. 1st March 2002.</ref>
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| style="padding-left: 1.0em;"|[[Regions of Wales|Regions]]
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| style="padding-left: 1.0em;"|[[History of Wales|History]]
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| style="padding-left: 1.0em;"|[[Welsh language|Language]]
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| style="padding-left: 1.0em;"|[[Welsh people|People]]
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| [[Northern Ireland]] • [[Belfast]]
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| style="padding-left: 1.0em;"|[[Regions of Northern Ireland|Regions]]
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| style="padding-left: 1.0em;"|[[History of Northern Ireland|History]]
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| style="padding-left: 1.0em;"|[[Languages of Northern Ireland|Language]]
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| style="padding-left: 1.0em;"|[[Northern Irish people|People]]
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| [[Crown dependencies of the United Kingdom|Crown dependencies]]
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| style="padding-left: 1.0em;"|[[Isle of Mann]]
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| style="padding-left: 1.0em;"|[[Channel Islands]]
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| [[Territories of the United Kingdom|Territories]]
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| [[Duke of Edinburgh Award]] ceremony
| British student about to do voluntary work in [[Romania]]
| [On finding that the student wouldn't be working in an [[orphanage]]] "There's so many over there you feel they breed them just to put in orphanages."<ref>Uncorroborated/</ref>
| [[Romanian people|Romanians]]; orphans
| ''[[The Scotsman]]'', July 2006<ref>''The Scotsman'': [http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=255&id=998522006 Duke under fire for Romanian orphans 'joke']'. 8th July 2006.</ref>
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* At the [[University of Salford]], he told a 13-year-old aspiring astronaut: "You could do with losing a bit of weight."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/29/29277_prince_tells_boy_youre_too_fat_for_spaceship.html|title=
Prince tells boy: You're too fat for spaceship|date=July 26, 2001 |publisher= Manchester Evening News}}</ref>
* In 1997, the Duke of Edinburgh, participating in an already controversial British visit to the [[Jallianwala Bagh massacre]] (Amritsar Massacre) Monument, provoked outrage in India and in the UK with an offhand comment. Having observed a plaque claiming 2,000 casualties, Prince Philip observed, "That's not right. The number is less." <ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/354666.stm|title=Deaf Insulted by Duke's Remark|date=May 27, 1999|publisher= BBC}}</ref>
* During a Royal visit to a Tamil Hindu temple in [[London]] , he asked a [[Hindu]] priest if he was related to the terrorist [[Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam|Tamil Tigers]].<ref name="gaffes"/>
* He once attributed a badly finished carpentry job to one having been done by an Indian. <ref> http://www.rediff.com/us/2002/nov/13uk.htm </ref>
* In 1988 he said that "In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation." <ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.prisonplanet.com/Pages/100604_prince_philip.html|title=
Prince Philip, In His Own Words: We Need To 'Cull' The Surplus Population|date=June 10, 2004|publisher= Prison Planet}}</ref>
*In 1996 he drew sharp criticism when he said a gun was no more dangerous than a cricket bat in the hands of a madman. The comment came in the wake of the [[Dunblane massacre|massacre]] of 16 children and their teacher by a gun-toting psychopath in [[Dunblane]], Scotland.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/354666.stm|title=
Deaf insulted by duke's remark |date=May 27, 1999 |publisher= BBC}}</ref><ref name="gaffes"/>

Revision as of 05:11, 18 July 2007

Where... Said to... Alleged to have said... May have offended...[1] According to...
Oban, Scotland Driving instructor "How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?" Scots BBC News, March 2002[2]
China British students "If you stay here much longer, you'll all be slitty-eyed." The Chinese BBC News, March 2002[3]
Kenya Kenyan tribeswoman "You are a woman, aren't you?" Kenyans; Africans BBC News, March 2002[4]
World Wildlife Fund meeting WWF delegates; the world "If it has four legs and is not a chair, has wings and is not an aeroplane, or swims and is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it." The Cantonese; other Chinese people BBC News, March 2002[5]
The world "British women can't cook."[6] Women BBC News, March 2002[7]
Papua New Guinea British student "You managed not to get eaten then?" Papua New Guineans BBC News, March 2002[8]
Lockerbie, Scotland Survivor of the Lockerbie Bombing living on a road where 11 residents had died "People usually say that after a fire it is water damage that is the worst. We are still trying to dry out Windsor Castle." Victims' families; survivors BBC News, March 2002[9]
Cardiff, Wales Teenagers from the British Deaf Association near a Jamaican steel drum band Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf." Deaf people; Jamaicans; steel drummers BBC News, March 2002[10]
Australia Australian Aboriginals "Still throwing spears?" Aboriginal people[11] BBC News, March 2002[12]
Budapest, Hungary British citizen "You can't have been here that long - you haven't got a pot belly." Hungarians BBC News, March 2002[13]
Edinburgh, Scotland Electronics company workers [Seeing a fuse box] "It looks as though it was put in by an Indian." Indians[14] BBC News, March 2002[15]
China The world [On Beijing] "Ghastly." The people of Beijing; The Chinese (again) BBC News, August 1999[16]
Cayman Islands Cayman Islander [On Beijing] "Ghastly." Cayman Islanders BBC News, March 2002[17]
UK (at the height of the 1981 recession) The world "Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed." The unemployed; anyone made redundant BBC News, March 2002[18]
Duke of Edinburgh Award ceremony British student about to do voluntary work in Romania [On finding that the student wouldn't be working in an orphanage] "There's so many over there you feel they breed them just to put in orphanages."[19] Romanians; orphans The Scotsman, July 2006[20]
  • At the University of Salford, he told a 13-year-old aspiring astronaut: "You could do with losing a bit of weight."[21]
  • In 1997, the Duke of Edinburgh, participating in an already controversial British visit to the Jallianwala Bagh massacre (Amritsar Massacre) Monument, provoked outrage in India and in the UK with an offhand comment. Having observed a plaque claiming 2,000 casualties, Prince Philip observed, "That's not right. The number is less." [22]
  • During a Royal visit to a Tamil Hindu temple in London , he asked a Hindu priest if he was related to the terrorist Tamil Tigers.[23]
  • He once attributed a badly finished carpentry job to one having been done by an Indian. [24]
  • In 1988 he said that "In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation." [25]
  • In 1996 he drew sharp criticism when he said a gun was no more dangerous than a cricket bat in the hands of a madman. The comment came in the wake of the massacre of 16 children and their teacher by a gun-toting psychopath in Dunblane, Scotland.[26][23]
  1. ↑ Principle group(s); others may also find the comment offensive.
  2. ↑ BBC News: Long line of princely gaffes'. 1st March 2002.
  3. ↑ BBC News: Long line of princely gaffes'. 1st March 2002.
  4. ↑ BBC News: Long line of princely gaffes'. 1st March 2002.
  5. ↑ BBC News: Long line of princely gaffes'. 1st March 2002.
  6. ↑ British television chef Gordon Ramsay said a similar thing in 2005; though he only remarked that young British women couldn't cook. See Daily Telegraph: 'Can't cook, won't cook', 22nd October 2005.
  7. ↑ BBC News: Long line of princely gaffes'. 1st March 2002.
  8. ↑ BBC News: Long line of princely gaffes'. 1st March 2002.
  9. ↑ BBC News: Prince Philip's gaffes'. 10th August 1999.
  10. ↑ BBC News: Deaf insulted by duke's remark'. 10th August 1999.
  11. ↑ The BBC reports that the addressee took no offence.
  12. ↑ BBC News: Prince Philip's spear 'gaffe''. 1st March 2002.
  13. ↑ BBC News: Long line of princely gaffes'. 1st March 2002.
  14. ↑ The BBC reported that the Duke was defended by Dr Shanfi Kauser, Secretary of the Islamic Centre in Glasgow: "He is a nice man and I don't think he has done anything out of malice. I believe he has not done anything wrong. On other occasions he has been very complimentary to us. We should not bring him into a dispute. I think he should be excused."
  15. ↑ BBC News: Royal apology for race remark'. 10th August 1999.
  16. ↑ BBC News: Prince Philip's gaffes'. 10th August 1999.
  17. ↑ BBC News: Long line of princely gaffes'. 1st March 2002.
  18. ↑ BBC News: Long line of princely gaffes'. 1st March 2002.
  19. ↑ Uncorroborated/
  20. ↑ The Scotsman: Duke under fire for Romanian orphans 'joke''. 8th July 2006.
  21. ↑ Prince tells boy: You're too fat for spaceship, Manchester Evening News, July 26, 2001.
  22. ↑ Deaf Insulted by Duke's Remark, BBC, May 27, 1999.
  23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named gaffes
  24. ↑ http://www.rediff.com/us/2002/nov/13uk.htm
  25. ↑ Prince Philip, In His Own Words: We Need To 'Cull' The Surplus Population, Prison Planet, June 10, 2004.
  26. ↑ Deaf insulted by duke's remark, BBC, May 27, 1999.
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