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8 times Prince Philip made incredibly inappropriate comments
Prince Philip got in trouble one time after joking about ‘Queen Elizabeth's complexion’

There have been plenty of instances when Prince Philip made inappropriate comments, which landed him in hot water countless times.
Due to the late royal member's witty sense of humor, he used some offensive terms for individuals, hosts, and important figures.
Other than important figures, Philip also made an incredibly inappropriate comment about his wife, the late Queen Elizabeth.
In 2007, The Daily Mirror's former royal correspondent James Whitaker reported, “When Philip's cousin Patricia Mountbatten remarked on Elizabeth's flawless complexion, the Prince joked: 'Yes, and she's like that all over.”
When the Queen was pregnant with the couple's third child Prince Andrew in 1959, Philip 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.”
Top 8 Prince Philip's inappropriate comments:
1. Prince Philip made a statement in 1965 during a project to protect turtle doves in Anguilla, “Cats kill far more birds than men. Why don't you have a slogan: 'Kill a cat and save a bird?'”
2. Prince Philip asked a female sea cadet, “Do you work in a strip club?”
3. Prince Philip to the President of Nigeria, who was in national dress, 2003, “You look like you're ready for bed!”
4. Prince Philip to Atul Patel at reception for influential Indians, 2009, “There's a lot of your family in tonight.”
5. Prince Philip 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. Prince Philip made a misogynistic remark for a female solicitor, 1987, “I thought it was against the law for a woman to solicit.”
7. Prince Philip said after Dunblane massacre in 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. Prince Philip stressed on 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!”