The Duke of Edinburgh’s sense of humour brought smiles across the Stormont Assembly chamber as members shared anecdotes of their encounters with him.
MLAs gathered for a special sitting on Monday to remember the duke who died on Friday at the age of 99.
As well as tributes and condolences, there were lighter moments with tales of fools not being suffered, the questioning of life experience and even tie knot queries.
DUP MLA Edwin Poots (NI Assembly/PA)
DUP MLA Edwin Poots told MLAs he empathised with how “attempts at humour could become gaffes”.
“The duke was known for his sharp mind, for his wittiness, and sometimes that got him into trouble so his quips could become gaffes … and as someone who does that occasionally myself, I can appreciate the quandary that he finds himself in, you want to engage with people and you want to lighten an atmosphere and sometimes it just doesn’t work right,” he told MLAs.