A BBC article, for example, lists some of the prince’s most “memorable one-liners that can make some people chuckle and others cringe”.
It recalls the time he told British students in China that they’d become “slitty-eyed” if they stayed in the country much longer (1986), and notes his remark about an old-fashioned fuse box looking “as if it was put in by an Indian” (1999).
As Nadine Dreyer wrote in the Sunday Times, Philip s “admirers can take comfort in the knowledge that he was an equal-opportunities offender, insulting people of all races and all walks of life”.
Whether intended to be humorous or not, many of Philip s comments were problematic, and have led to him being called out as being a “sexist” and a “racist” on social media.