Prince Phillip and his runaway gob :)

Good old Phil The Greek is known for his ability to put his foot in it, here's a selection of some of his best..Jesus, I'd love to meet him




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

On robots colliding at the Science Museum in 2000: “They’re not mating are they?”

Discussing tartan with then-Scottish Tory leader Annabel Goldie last year: “That’s a nice tie... Do you have any knickers in that material?

At a Scottish fish farm: “Oh! You’re the people ruining the rivers.”

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

At City Hall in 2002: “If we could just stop the tourism, we could stop the congestion.”

“You ARE a woman, aren’t you?” Kenya, 1984.

After being told that Madonna was singing the Die Another Day theme in 2002: “Are we going to need ear plugs?”

To female sea cadet last year: “Do you work in a strip club?”

After accepting a conservation award in Thailand in 1991: “Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species.”

At a project to protect turtle doves in Anguilla in 1965: “Cats kill far more birds than men. Why don’t you have a slogan: ‘Kill a cat and save a bird?’”

To multi-ethnic Britain’s Got Talent 2009 winners Diversity: “Are you all one family?”

To President of Nigeria, who was in national dress: “You look like you’re ready for bed!”

To deaf children by a steel band: “Deaf? If you’re near there, no wonder you are deaf.”

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

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

On the Duke of York’s house: “It looks like a tart’s bedroom."

At the Aircraft Research Association: “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.”

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

To a Scottish driving instructor in 1995: “How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?”