Prince Philip is 98 today so here are the 66 times he was the best troll ever. Happy birthday Phil!

23. At Hertfordshire University, 2003: “During the Blitz, a lot of shops had their windows blown in and put up notices saying, ‘More open than usual’. I now declare this place more open than usual.”

24. At party in 2004: “Bugger the table plan, give me my dinner!”

25. His description of Beijing, during a visit there in 1986: “Ghastly.”

26. His verdict on Stoke-on-Trent, during a visit in 1997: “Ghastly.”

27. In Canada in 1976: “We don’t come here for our health.”

28. On Ethiopian art, 1965: “It looks like the kind of thing my daughter would bring back from school art lessons.”

29. On how difficult it is in Britain to get rich: “What about Tom Jones? He’s made a million and he’s a bloody awful singer.”

30. On seeing a piezo-meter water gauge in Australia: “A pissometer?”

31. On stress counselling for servicemen in 1995: “We didn’t have counsellors rushing around every time somebody let off a gun. You just got on with it!”

32. On the 1981. recession: “A few years ago, everybody was saying we must have more leisure, everyone’s working too much. Now everybody’s got more leisure time they’re complaining they’re unemployed. People don’t seem to make up their minds what they want.”

33. On the Duke of York’s house, 1986: “It looks like a tart’s bedroom.”

34. On the new £18million British Embassy in Berlin in 2000: “It’s a vast waste of space.”

35. On Tom Jones, 1969: “It’s difficult to see how it’s possible to become immensely valuable by singing what are the most hideous songs.”

36. Peering at a fuse box in a Scottish factory, he said: “It looks as though it was put in by an Indian.” He later backtracked: “I meant to say cowboys.”

37. To a British trekker in Papua New Guinea, 1998: “You managed not to get eaten then?”

38. To a car park attendant who didn’t recognise him in 1997, he snapped: “You bloody silly fool!”

39. To a civil servant, 1970: “You’re just a silly little Whitehall twit: you don’t trust me and I don’t trust you.”

40. To a fashion writer in 1993: “You’re not wearing mink knickers,are you?”

41. To a tourist in Budapest in 1993: “You can’t have been here long, you haven’t got a pot belly.”

42. To a woman solicitor, 1987: “I thought it was against the law for a woman to solicit.”

43. To Aboriginal leader William Brin, Queensland, 2002: “Do you still throw spears at each other?”

44. To a children’s band in Australia in 2002: “You were playing your instruments? Or do you have tape recorders under your seats?”