04 November 2023 , 16:00
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Prince Philip's jokes and inappropriate comments landed him in hot water countless times over the years. His colourful use of language and gaffes made him one of the more interesting members of the Royal Family - but on occasion they were downright offensive to individuals, hosts and important figures.
But there was one comment that apparently got him into big trouble with his loving wife, the late Queen Elizabeth, and it's because it was about her appearance.
The Daily Mirror's former royal correspondent James Whitaker reported on the comment back in 2007. It came after his cousin Patricia Mountbatten complimented the monarch on her skin.
Mr Whitaker wrote: "When Philip's cousin Patricia Mountbatten remarked on Elizabeth's flawless complexion, the Prince joked: 'Yes, and she's like that all over." And that wasn't the only time the Duke of Edinburgh said something rather inappropriate about his nearest and dearest.
Speaking when the Queen was pregnant with the couple's third child Prince Andrew in 1959, he reportedly said: "People want their first child very much. They want the second almost as much. If a third comes along they accept it as natural, even if they haven't gone out of their way for it."
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Some of Prince Philip's other inappropriate comments
1. At a project to protect turtle doves in Anguilla in 1965, he said: "Cats kill far more birds than men. Why don't you have a slogan: 'Kill a cat and save a bird?'"
2. To female sea cadet: "Do you work in a strip club?"
3. To President of Nigeria, who was in national dress, 2003: "You look like you're ready for bed!"
4. To Atul Patel at reception for influential Indians, 2009: "There's a lot of your family in tonight."
5. 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."
6. To a female solicitor, 1987: "I thought it was against the law for a woman to solicit."
7. After Dunblane massacre, 1996: "If a cricketer suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, are you going to ban cricket bats?"
8. 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!"
9. 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."
10. On Ethiopian art, 1965: "It looks like the kind of thing my daughter would bring back from school art lessons."
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