Obama Meets the Queen

[AiA in Atlanta]

None of the above .The Queen has breeding/ class and centuries of blue blood to back that up. The Queen is a lady.

Like I said, it is Prince Phillip who puts his foot in his mouth every time, not the Queen.

During a state visit to China in 1986, he famously told a group of British students: "If you stay here much longer, you'll all be slitty-eyed".

And speaking to a driving instructor in Oban, Scotland, he asked: "How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?".

Other eyebrow-raising pronouncements have included:

Still throwing spears? (Question put to an Australian Aborigine during a visit in March 2002)
"British women can't cook." (1966)
"Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed." (during the 1981 recession)
"We didn't have counsellors rushing around every time somebody let off a gun, asking 'Are you all right? Are you sure you don't have a ghastly problem?' You just got on with it." (commenting in 1995 on modern stress counselling for servicemen)
"If a cricketer, for instance, suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, which he could do very easily, I mean, are you going to ban cricket bats?" (in 1996, amid calls to ban firearms after the Dunblane shooting)
"Bloody silly fool!" (in 1997, referring to a Cambridge University car park attendant who failed to recognise him)
"It looks as if it was put in by an Indian." (in 1999, referring to an old-fashioned fuse box in a factory near Edinburgh)
"Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf." (in 1999, to young deaf people in Cardiff, referring to a school's steel band)
"They must be out of their minds." (in 1982, in the Solomon Islands, after being told that the annual population growth was only 5%)
"You are a woman, aren't you?" (in 1984, in Kenya, to a native woman who had presented him with a small gift)

If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it

The Duke of Edinburgh
"Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species in the world." (in 1991, in Thailand, after accepting a conservation award)
"Oh no, I might catch some ghastly disease." (in 1992 in Australia, when asked to stroke a Koala bear)
"You can't have been here that long - you haven't got a pot belly." (in 1993, to a Briton in Budapest, Hungary)
"Aren't most of you descended from pirates?" (in 1994, to an islander in the Cayman Islands)
"You managed not to get eaten, then?" (in 1998, to a student who had been trekking in Papua New Guinea)
"If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it." (at a 1986 World Wildlife Fund meeting)

You gotta luv the man.

[AiA in Atlanta]

Didn't Ted Kennedy get a knighthood or something?

It was honorary as he is barred by the US Constitution from receiving a real one.

[Jovial Monk]

hahahahah he said that? Never knew that as I don't follow the royal dimwits like you do

[JW Frogen]

Phillip is right about Cardiff, indeed it would be better to be both deaf and blind, most Welsh are already dumb.

[boxy]

Prince Phillip is the type of politician you get when you make them immune from the vote, and make it treasonous to kick them in nads for their stupidity

But at least he doesn't have any real power.

[Jovial Monk]

He does have power, propose we decide to truly declare independence and millions of Jubial Dickheads run out of cracks in the woodwork and from under wet rocks to say 'oh we must have the monarchy!'

[Jubial Priest]

He does have power, propose we decide to truly declare independence and millions of Jubial Dickheads run out of cracks in the woodwork and from under wet rocks to say 'oh we must have the monarchy!'

How do you manage to display your ignorance day in and day out and manage to live with yourself?

[boxy]

You're confusing him with his wife, methinks. She wears the pants in the family, he's just there to look good

[Jovial Monk]

Look good and provide some fresh genes

[boxy]

I don't think he helped, the next generation seem to have stronger looking genes though. Diana provided a bit of hybrid vigor