He said what? Some of Prince Philip’s memorable gaffes

“You’re about to see the world’s most experienced plaque-unveiler.” – opening a new stand at Lord’s cricket ground in London in May 2017.

“[Children] go to school because their parents don’t want them in the house.” – to Malala Yousafzai, who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban after campaigning for girls’ right to go to school, in October 2013, reducing her to giggles.

“Bits are beginning to drop off.” – on approaching his 90th birthday in 2011.

“There’s a lot of your family in tonight.” – after looking at the name badge of businessman Atul Patel at a reception for British Indians in October 2009.

“Do you know they’re now producing eating dogs for anorexics?” – to a blind woman in 2002.

“Still throwing spears?” – an Australian Aborigine was quizzed during a 2002 visit.

“Well, you’ll never fly in it, you’re too fat.” – a 13-year-old boy has his dreams of being an astronaut shattered in 2001.

“Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf.” – to a group of deaf people standing near a steel band in 1999.

“You managed not to get eaten, then?” – in 1998, to a student who had been trekking in Papua New Guinea.

“How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?” – a driving instructor in Scotland is put on the spot in 1995.

“Aren’t most of you descended from pirates?” – a Cayman Islander is quizzed on his heritage in 1994.

“You can’t have been here that long – you haven’t got a pot belly.” – to a Briton in Budapest, Hungary, in 1993.

“Oh no, I might catch some ghastly disease.” – a request to stroke a Koala bear in Australia is declined in 1992.