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*[[:Category:Inactive CZ Authors]]
! Where...
*[[:Category:Inactive Astronomy Authors]]
 
*[[:Category:Inactive Biology Authors]]
! Said to...
*[[:Category:Inactive Chemistry Authors]]
! Alleged to have said...
*[[:Category:Inactive Earth Sciences Authors]]
! May have offended...<ref>Principle group(s); others may also find the comment offensive.</ref>
*[[:Category:Inactive Mathematics Authors]]
! According to...
*[[:Category:Inactive Physics Authors]]
|-
*[[:Category:Inactive Anthropology Authors]]
| [[Oban]], [[Scotland]]
*[[:Category:Inactive Archaeology Authors]]
| Driving instructor
*[[:Category:Inactive Economics Authors]]
| "How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?"
*[[:Category:Inactive Education Authors]]
| [[Scottish people|Scots]]
*[[:Category:Inactive Geography Authors]]
| [[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>
*[[:Category:Inactive Law Authors]]
|-
*[[:Category:Inactive Linguistics Authors]]
| [[China]]
*[[:Category:Inactive Politics Authors]]
| [[United Kingdom|British]] [[student]]s
*[[:Category:Inactive Psychology Authors]]
| "If you stay here much longer, you'll all be slitty-eyed."
*[[:Category:Inactive Sociology Authors]]
| [[Chinese people|The Chinese]]
*[[:Category:Inactive Classics Authors]]
| [[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>
*[[:Category:Inactive History Authors]]
|-
*[[:Category:Inactive Literature Authors]]
| [[Kenya]]
*[[:Category:Inactive Philosophy Authors]]
| [[Kenyan people|Kenyan]] tribeswoman
*[[:Category:Inactive Religion Authors]]
| "You are a [[woman]], aren't you?"
*[[:Category:Inactive Architecture Authors]]
| [[Kenyan people|Kenyans]]; [[African people|African]]s
*[[:Category:Inactive Music Authors]]
| [[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>
*[[:Category:Inactive Theater Authors]]
|-
*[[:Category:Inactive Visual Arts Authors]]
| [[World Wildlife Fund]] meeting
*[[:Category:Inactive Agriculture Authors]]
| WWF delegates; the world
*[[:Category:Inactive Business Authors]]
| "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."
*[[:Category:Inactive Computers Authors]]
| [[Cantonese people|The Cantonese]]; other Chinese people
*[[:Category:Inactive Engineering Authors]]
| [[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>
*[[:Category:Inactive Food Science Authors]]
|-
*[[:Category:Inactive Health Sciences Authors]]
|
*[[:Category:Inactive Journalism Authors]]
| The world
*[[:Category:Inactive Library and Information Science Authors]]
| "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>
*[[:Category:Inactive Media Authors]]
| [[Woman|Women]]
*[[:Category:Inactive Military Authors]]
| [[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>
*[[:Category:Inactive Robotics Authors]]
|-
*[[:Category:Inactive Games Authors]]
| [[Papua New Guinea]]
*[[:Category:Inactive Hobbies Authors]]
| British student
*[[:Category:Inactive Sports Authors]]
| "You managed not to get eaten then?"
*[[:Category:Inactive Eduzendium Authors]]
| [[Papua New Guinea people|Papua New Guineans]]
*[[:Category:Inactive Topic Informant Authors]]
| [[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>
|-
| [[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>
|-
| [[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>
|-
| [[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>
|-
| [[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>
|-
| [[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>
|-
| [[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>
|-
| [[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>
|-
| UK (at the height of the 1981 [[recession]])
| The world
| "Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are [[unemployment|unemployed]]."
| The unemployed; anyone made [[redundancy|redundant]]
| [[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>
|-
| [[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>
|}
 
* 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"/>

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