Gaffe

30. "Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species." Accepting a conservation award in Thailand in 1991.

He's a national gem.

The yanks have dubbya, we've got Stavros.

Absolute legend

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Cracking up on #3 already.

mooners

There are gems throughout, look at: #22

"My son...er...owns them." On being asked on a Canadian tour whether he knew the Scilly Isles

I can't help but cringe.

Ghastly!

44. "So who's on drugs here?... HE looks as if he's on drugs." To a 14-year-old member of a Bangladeshi youth club in 2002.

56. "Do people trip over you?" Meeting a wheelchair-bound nursing-home resident in 2002.

54. "Can you tell the difference between them?" On being told by President Obama that he'd had breakfast with the leaders of the UK, China and Russia.

79. "Reichskanzler." Prince Philip used Hitler's title to address German chancellor Helmut Kohl during a speech in Hanover in 1997.

Hillarious.

88. "You're not wearing mink knickers, are you?" Philip charms fashion writer Serena French at a World Wildlife Fund gathering in 1993.

Got to be one of the best of the bunch!

We've got to get our entertainment from somewhere. I can't always be the butt of your jokes.

my favorite ones

67. "I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing." Dismissing claims that those who sell slaughtered meat have greater moral authority than those who participate in blood sports, in 1988.

61. "So you're responsible for the kind of crap Channel Four produces!" Speaking to then chairman of the channel, Michael Bishop, in 1962.

61. "So you're responsible for the kind of crap Channel Four produces!" Speaking to then chairman of the channel, Michael Bishop, in 1962.

Unlikely this is correct, Channel 4 was launched in the early eighties. Unless it is supposed to be Radio 4.

61. "So you're responsible for the kind of crap Channel Four produces!" Speaking to then chairman of the channel, Michael Bishop, in 1962.

Unlikely this is correct, Channel 4 was launched in the early eighties. Unless it is supposed to be Radio 4.

From Wikipedia :

Between 1991 and 1993, Bishop was deputy chairman of Channel 4 television, becoming chairman from 1993 to 1997.[8] He was also a board member at Sir Nigel Rudd's Williams plc., and deputy chairman at Airtours.[6]

In 1986, he was awarded the CBE, and in 1991 he was knighted. He was awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of Leicester on 12 July 2007.

In an annual survey by The Independent of the UK's most influential gay men and women, Bishop was ranked as number 5 in 2005 and number 6 in 2006.[9]

On 1 February 2011, Bishop was created a life peer as Baron Glendonbrook, of Bowdon in the County of Cheshire,[10] and was introduced in the House of Lords on 22 March 2011,[11] where he sits as a Conservative.

So only 30 years out.

The reporting of lists like this is usually given to a very junior staff member.

This one probably failed at making tea as well.

He's a national gem.

The yanks have dubbya, we've got Stavros.

Absolute legend

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I have to admit that he beats Bush hands down as a verbal klutz.....but at least he does it with panache.

2. "Ghastly." Prince Philip's opinion of Stoke-on-Trent, as offered to the city's Labour MP Joan Walley at Buckingham Palace in 1997.

As a native of the City, I think this is one of the occasions when HRH was being quite diplomatic in his choice of words.