Queen's husband to retire from royal duties this fall

Toronto Sun

First posted: Friday, May 05, 2017 07:43 AM EDT | Updated: Friday, May 05, 2017 08:06 AM EDT

“I declare this thing open, whatever it is.”

- 1969 on a visit to Canada

"British women can’t cook”

- 1966

“If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.”

- 1986 WWF meeting

“It looks like a tart’s bedroom.”

- 1988 on the plans for Duke and Duchess of York’s house

“Yak, yak, yak; come on get a move on.”

- 1994 to the Queen

“How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?”

- 1995 to a Scots driving instructor

“It looks as if it was put in by an Indian.”

- 1999

“Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species in the world.”

-m 1999 to the Thais

“You managed not to get eaten, then?”

- 1998 to a student who had been trekking in Papua New Guinea

“You’re too fat to be an astronaut.”

- 2001 to 13-year-old Andrew Adams, who told Philip he wanted to go into space

“How many people have you knocked over this morning on that thing?”

- 2012 when meeting disabled David Miller who drives a mobility scooter

“If it doesn’t fart or eat hay, she’s not interested.”

- On Princess Anne

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