Share There was a sense really that he was the queen s warm up act, he used to put people at ease who were waiting to meet his wife like rabbits in headlights, Camilla said. I remember being in Malta where he turned to a well wisher who was about to meet the Queen who had a beard and he said, shouldn t you have shaved before meeting Her Majesty?
She added that both Prince Philip and the man burst out laughing.
Paying their respects: Richard and co-host Rebecca Maddern were both dressed in black to pay their respects on air and were joined at one point by Royal commentator Camilla Tominey
One of the Aboriginal dancers who Prince Philip infamously asked if indigenous Australians still throws spears at each other says the comment was not racist and he had deep respect for the royal.
The Queen s husband died at Windsor Castle on Friday aged 99 after a long illness, with his death confirmed by Buckingham Palace at 9pm AEST.
Warren Clements, an Aboriginal performer who greeted royal couple at an event in Far North Queensland in 2002, said the dancers went off-script to try to impress them, and were honoured by their greeting. We had royal fever so we said: Let s go out the back and throw some boomerangs and spears and hopefully we ll get a glimpse of them as they come down. They waved and we were showing off, Mr Clements told the ABC.
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