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His comments on China
During a royal visit to China in 1986, Philip described Beijing as ghastly and told British students: If you stay here much longer you ll all be slitty-eyed. He also quipped while speaking at a World Wildlife Fund meeting the same year: 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.
As per a report on the South China Morning Post, it came on October 16, 1986, on the first and only British state visit to China, when the duke, the chancellor of Edinburgh University since 1953, met students from the institution who were starting a year of learning. The article says, however, that the reporting only came about thanks to a mix-up, adding that the Chinese saying that puts his quip into context did not feature.
ARTHUR EDWARDS
Prince Philip was guilty of making gaffes but ticked us off for not knowing the context of when he said things
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PRINCE Philip was clearly angry and fit to burst.
Another of the Queen’s tours had erupted into international controversy, after the media had reported one of the Duke of Edinburgh’s legendary gaffes.
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Another of the Queen’s tours had erupted into international controversy, after one the Duke of Edinburgh’s legendary gaffes in AustraliaCredit: The Sun
The Queen’s 2002 trip to Australia was now in danger of going pear-shaped because of Philip. Talking to indigenous Australians in the jungle near Cairns, Philip had asked: “Do you still throw spears at each other?”
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