Here are some of Philip’s famous comments:
Prince Philip’s 50 most outrageous comments
“British women can’t cook” – in Britain in 1966.
2. “What do you gargle with – pebbles?” – speaking to singer Tom Jones after the 1969 Royal Variety Performance.
3. “I declare this thing open, whatever it is” – on a visit to Canada in 1969.
4. “Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed” – during the 1981 recession.
5. “If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it” – at a 1986 World Wildlife Fund meeting.