Prince Philip is 98 today so here are the 66 times he was the best troll ever. Happy birthday Phil!
45. To Andrew Adams, 13, in 1998: “You could do with losing a little bit of weight.”
46. To Atul Patel at reception for influential Indians, 2009: “There’s a lot of your family in tonight.”
47. To black politician Lord Taylor of Warwick, 1999: “And what exotic part of the world do you come from?”
48. To Cayman Islanders: “Aren’t most of you descended from pirates?”
49. To deaf children by steel band, 2000: “Deaf? If you’re near there, no wonder you are deaf.”
50. To editor of downmarket tabloid: “Where are you from?” “The S*n, sir.” Philip: “Oh, no . . . one can’t tell from the outside.”
51. To Elton John on his gold Aston Martin in 2001: “Oh, it’s you that owns that ghastly car, is it?”
52. To expats in Abu Dhabi last year: “Are you running away from something?”
53. To female sea cadet last year: “Do you work in a strip club?”
54. To Lockerbie residents after plane bombing, 1993: “People say after a fire it’s water damage that’s the worst. We’re still drying out Windsor Castle.”
55. To multi-ethnic Britain’s Got Talent 2009. winners Diversity: “Are you all one family?”
56. To parents at a previously struggling Sheffield school, 2003: “Were you here in the bad old days? … That’s why you can’t read and write then!”
57. To President of Nigeria, who was in national dress, 2003: “You look like you’re ready for bed!”
58. To schoolboy who invited the Queen to Romford, Essex, 2003: “Ah, you’re the one who wrote the letter. So you can write then?”
59. To Scottish driving instructor, 1995: “How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?”
60. To Simon Kelner, republican editor of The Independent, at Windsor Castle reception: “What are you doing here?” “I was invited, sir.” Philip: “Well, you didn’t have to come.”
61. To Susan Edwards and her guide dog in 2002: “They have eating dogs for the anorexic now.”
62. To the Aircraft Research Association in 2002: “If you travel as much as we do, you appreciate the improvements in aircraft design of less noise and more comfort – provided you don’t travel in something called economy class, which sounds ghastly.”
63. To the Scottish WI in 1961: “British women can’t cook.”
64. To then Paraguay dictator General Stroessner: “It’s a pleasure to be in a country that isn’t ruled by its people.”
65. Turning down food, 2000: “No, I’d probably end up spitting it out over everybody.”
66. Using Hitler’s title to address German chancellor Helmut Kohl in 1997, he called him: “Reichskanzler.”
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