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Prince Philip Sourcebook
- “It’s a pleasant change to be in a country that isn’t ruled by its people.” (toAlfredo Stroessner, the Paraguayan dictator in 1962).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfredo_Stroessner
"Alfredo Stroessner was the Latin American dictator beyond compare. He gave haven to Nazis, 'bought' virgin schoolgirls from their parents, accumulated wealth and made the trains run on time. For thirty-five years he ruled Paraguay, modernising and terrorising it. Human rights violations characteristic of those in other South American countries such as kidnappings, torture, forced disappearances and extrajudicial killings were routine and systematic during the Stroessner regime. Following executions, many of the bodies of those killed by the regime were dumped in the Chaco or the Río Paraguay. The discovery of the "Archives of Terror" in 1992 in the Lambaré suburb of Asunción confirmed allegations of widespread human rights violations. Josef Mengele was in Paraguay; Fascist army officers from Argentina fled to Paraguay when their coup plots failed; Indians in the Paraguayan jungle were hunted by fundamentalist American missionaries with rifles."
"Prince Philip gave Alfredo Stroessner the Grand Cross of the Knights of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1962."
"The importance placed on the success of the Herald airplane can be judged by the fact that, in 1962, HRH the Duke of Edinburgh joined the sales team for a marketing tour of South America. Already an experienced pilot - he was taught to fly by WW2 ace Peter Townsend - Prince Philip flew BEA's Herald G-APWA on an extended tour to promote interest in the airliner. Alongside him, in the co-pilot's seat, was Peter Middleton, who in 1982 would become the grandfather of the future Duchess of Cambridge. The aircraft he flew, G-APWA, is one of only four surviving Heralds."
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- "You’re too fat to be an astronaut.” (to 13-year-oldAndrew Adams who told Philip he wanted to go into space. Salford, 2001).
- “If you stay here much longer, you’ll all be slitty-eyed.” (to British students inChina, during the 1986 state visit).
- “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.” (at a 1986World Wildlife Fund meeting).
https://www.animalaid.org.uk/massacre-windsor-estate-7000-wild-animals-killed-one-year/
"Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, is estimated to have shot at least 30,000 animals and birds, including deer, rabbit, hare, wild duck, snipe, woodcock, teal, pigeon, partridge, and pheasant. Although he has now bowed to public outrage and given up big game hunting, he has in the past taken part in an Indian tiger shoot, despite protests from British and Indian politicians. On that same trip, he killed a crocodile and six urials (mountain sheep). He continued to enjoy shooting wild boar and travelled to Germany to do so. On one occasion he and Prince Charles are said to have killed 50 wild boar in a single day. Prince Philip regularly invites friends to shoot with him at the Royal Family’s 20,000-acre Sandringham Estate. In a seven-week stay during 1993, he is said to have hit his target of 10,000 pheasants. His shooting parties are estimated to have killed about 150,000 pheasants over the last two decades. The Prince prefers to think of this as ‘cropping’.
In 2007, his shooting parties made the news again when a fox broke cover while Prince Philip and his party of seven Guns were shooting pheasants at Sandringham. The animal was shot at least twice but still showed signs of life. A beater clubbed her on the head and, four minutes later, returned to stamp on her. In response, Buckingham Palace said only: ‘It was a private shoot so we will not make any comment.’"
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42003216
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/uk/you-re-too-fat-to-be-an-astronaut-and-other-off-the-cuff-remarks-by-britain-s-prince-philip-1.3071272
- “British women can’t cook” (in Britain in 1966).
- “What do you gargle with, pebbles?” (speaking to singer Tom Jones after the 1969 Royal Variety Performance).
- “I declare this thing open, whatever it is.” (on a visit to Canada in 1969).
- “Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed” (during the 1981 recession).
- “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.” (at a 1986 World Wildlife Fund meeting).
- “It looks like a tart’s bedroom.” (on seeing plans for the Duke and Duchess of York’s house at Sunninghill Park in 1988)
- “Yak, yak, yak; come on get a move on.” (shouted from the deck of Britannia in Belize in 1994 to the Queen who was chatting to her hosts on the quayside).
- “We didn’t have counsellors rushing around every time somebody let off a gun, asking ‘Are you all right? Are you sure you don’t have a ghastly problem?’ You just got on with it.” (about the Second World War commenting on modern stress counselling for servicemen in 1995).
- “How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?” (to a driving instructor in Oban, Scotland, during a 1995 walkabout).
- “If a cricketer, for instance, suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, which he could do very easily, I mean, are you going to ban cricket bats?” (in 1996, amid calls to ban firearms after the Dunblane shooting).
- “Bloody silly fool!” (in 1997, referring to a Cambridge University car park attendant who did not recognise him).
- “It looks as if it was put in by an Indian.” (pointing at an old-fashioned fuse box in a factory near Edinburgh in 1999).
- “Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf.” (to young deaf people in Cardiff, in 1999, referring to a school’s steel band).
- “They must be out of their minds.” (in the Solomon Islands, in 1982, when he was told that the annual population growth was 5 per cent).
- “You are a woman, aren’t you?”(In Kenya, in 1984, after accepting a small gift from a local woman).
- “If you stay here much longer, you’ll all be slitty-eyed.” (to British students in China, during the 1986 state visit).
- “Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species in the world.” (in Thailand, in 1991, after accepting a conservation award).
- “Oh no, I might catch some ghastly disease.” (in Australia, in 1992, when asked to stroke a koala).
- “You can’t have been here that long — you haven’t got a pot belly.” (to a Briton in Budapest, Hungary, in 1993).
- “Aren’t most of you descended from pirates?” (to a wealthy islander in the Cayman Islands in 1994).
- “You managed not to get eaten, then?” (suggesting to a student in 1998 who had been trekking in Papua New Guinea that tribes there were still cannibals).
- In Germany, in 1997, he welcomed German chancellor Helmut Kohl at a trade fair as “Reichskanzler” — the last German leader who used the title was Adolf Hitler.
- “You’re too fat to be an astronaut.” (to 13-year-old Andrew Adams who told Philip he wanted to go into space. Salford, 2001).
- “I wish he’d turn the microphone off.” (muttered at the Royal Variety Performance as he watched Sir Elton John perform, 2001).
- “Do you still throw spears at each other?” (In Australia in 2002 talking to a successful aborigine entrepreneur).
- “You look like a suicide bomber.” (to a young female officer wearing a bullet-proof vest on Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, in 2002).
- “Do you know they’re now producing eating dogs for anorexics?” (to a blind woman outside Exeter Cathedral, 2002)
- “Well, you didn’t design your beard too well, did you?” (to designer Stephen Judge about his tiny goatee beard in July 2009).
- “There’s a lot of your family in tonight.” (after looking at the name badge of businessman Atul Patel at a Palace reception for British Indians in October 2009).
- “Do you work at a strip club?” (to 24-year-old Barnstaple Sea Cadet Elizabeth Rendle when she told him she also worked in a nightclub in March 2010).
- “Do you have a pair of knickers made out of this?” pointing to some tartan (to Scottish Conservative leader Annabel Goldie a papal reception in Edinburgh in September 2010).
- “Bits are beginning to drop off.” (on approaching his 90th birthday, 2011)
- “How many people have you knocked over this morning on that thing?” (meeting disabled David Miller who drives a mobility scooter at the Valentine Mansion in Redbridge in March 2012)
- “I would get arrested if I unzipped that dress.” (to 25-year-old council worker Hannah Jackson, who was wearing a dress with a zip running the length of its front, on a Jubilee visit to Bromley, Kent, in May 2012)
- “The Philippines must be half empty as you’re all here running the NHS.” (on meeting a Filipino nurse at a Luton hospital in February 2013)
- “Most stripping is done by hand.” (to 83-year-old Mars factory worker Audrey Cook when discussing how she used to strip or cut Mars Bars by hand in April 2013)
- “(Children) go to school because their parents don’t want them in the house.” (prompting giggles from Malala Yousafzai, who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban after campaigning for the right of girls to go to school without fear — October 2013)
- “Just take the f***ing picture.” (losing patience with an RAF photographer at events to mark the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain — July 2015)
- “You look starved.” (to a pensioner on a visit to the Charterhouse almshouse for elderly men — February 2017)
- “I’m just a bloody amoeba.” (on the Queen’s decision that their children should be called Windsor, not Mountbatten).
- “Gentlemen, I think it is time we pulled our fingers out.”(to the Industrial Co-Partnership Association on Britain’s inefficient industries in 1961).
- “Are you asking me if the Queen is going to die?” (on being questioned on when the Prince of Wales would succeed to the throne)
- “If the man had succeeded in abducting Anne, she would have given him a hell of a time while in captivity.” (On a gunman who tried to kidnap the Princess Royal in 1974).
- “I hope he breaks his bloody neck.” (when a photographer covering a royal visit to India fell out of a tree)
- “If it doesn’t fart or eat hay, she’s not interested.” (on Princess Anne)
- “When a man opens a car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife.” (on marriage).
- “It’s a pleasant change to be in a country that isn’t ruled by its people.” (to Alfredo Stroessner, the Paraguayan dictator in 1963).
- “Where did you get that hat?” (supposedly to the Queen at her Coronation).
Elizabeth met her future husband, Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, in 1934 and 1937. They were second cousins once removed through King Christian IX of Denmark and third cousins through Queen Victoria. After another meeting at the Royal Naval College in Dartmouth in July 1939, Elizabeth—though only 13 years old—said she fell in love with Philip, and they began to exchange letters. She was 21 when their engagement was officially announced on 9 July 1947.
Phil the Greek
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