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*[[:Category:Inactive CZ Authors]]
! Where, when...
*[[:Category:Inactive Astronomy Authors]]
 
*[[:Category:Inactive Biology Authors]]
! Said to...
*[[:Category:Inactive Chemistry Authors]]
! Alleged to have said...
*[[:Category:Inactive Earth Sciences Authors]]
! May have offended...<ref>Principle group(s); others may also find the comment offensive.</ref>
*[[:Category:Inactive Mathematics Authors]]
! According to...
*[[:Category:Inactive Physics Authors]]
|-
*[[:Category:Inactive Anthropology Authors]]
| [[Oban]], [[Scotland]]
*[[:Category:Inactive Archaeology Authors]]
| Driving instructor
*[[:Category:Inactive Economics Authors]]
| "How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?"
*[[:Category:Inactive Education Authors]]
| [[Scottish people|Scots]]
*[[:Category:Inactive Geography Authors]]
| [[BBC]] News, March 2002<ref>''BBC News'': [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1848553.stm Long line of princely gaffes]'. 1st March 2002.</ref>
*[[:Category:Inactive Law Authors]]
|-
*[[:Category:Inactive Linguistics Authors]]
| [[China]]
*[[:Category:Inactive Politics Authors]]
| [[United Kingdom|British]] [[student]]s
*[[:Category:Inactive Psychology Authors]]
| "If you stay here much longer, you'll all be slitty-eyed."
*[[:Category:Inactive Sociology Authors]]
| [[Chinese people|The Chinese]]
*[[:Category:Inactive Classics Authors]]
| [[BBC]] News, March 2002<ref>''BBC News'': [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1848553.stm Long line of princely gaffes]'. 1st March 2002.</ref>
*[[:Category:Inactive History Authors]]
|-
*[[:Category:Inactive Literature Authors]]
| [[Kenya]]
*[[:Category:Inactive Philosophy Authors]]
| [[Kenyan people|Kenyan]] tribeswoman
*[[:Category:Inactive Religion Authors]]
| "You are a [[woman]], aren't you?"
*[[:Category:Inactive Architecture Authors]]
| [[Kenyan people|Kenyans]]; [[African people|African]]s
*[[:Category:Inactive Music Authors]]
| [[BBC]] News, March 2002<ref>''BBC News'': [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1848553.stm Long line of princely gaffes]'. 1st March 2002.</ref>
*[[:Category:Inactive Theater Authors]]
|-
*[[:Category:Inactive Visual Arts Authors]]
| [[World Wildlife Fund]] meeting
*[[:Category:Inactive Agriculture Authors]]
| WWF delegates; the world
*[[:Category:Inactive Business Authors]]
| "If it has four [[leg]]s and is not a [[chair]], has [[wing]]s and is not an [[aeroplane]], or [[swimming|swims]] and is not a [[submarine]], the [[Cantonese people|Cantonese]] will eat it."
*[[:Category:Inactive Computers Authors]]
| [[Cantonese people|The Cantonese]]; other Chinese people
*[[:Category:Inactive Engineering Authors]]
| [[BBC]] News, March 2002<ref>''BBC News'': [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1848553.stm Long line of princely gaffes]'. 1st March 2002.</ref>
*[[:Category:Inactive Food Science Authors]]
|-
*[[:Category:Inactive Health Sciences Authors]]
| 1966
*[[:Category:Inactive Journalism Authors]]
| The world
*[[:Category:Inactive Library and Information Science Authors]]
| "British women can't cook."<ref>British television [[chef]] [[Gordon Ramsay]] said a similar thing in 2005; though he only remarked that ''young'' British women couldn't cook. See ''[[Daily Telegraph]]'': '[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/10/23/ncook23.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/10/23/ixhome.html Can't cook, won't cook]', 22nd October 2005.</ref>
*[[:Category:Inactive Media Authors]]
| [[Woman|Women]]
*[[:Category:Inactive Military Authors]]
| [[BBC]] News, March 2002<ref>''BBC News'': [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1848553.stm Long line of princely gaffes]'. 1st March 2002.</ref>
*[[:Category:Inactive Robotics Authors]]
|-
*[[:Category:Inactive Games Authors]]
| [[Papua New Guinea]]
*[[:Category:Inactive Hobbies Authors]]
| British student
*[[:Category:Inactive Sports Authors]]
| "You managed not to get eaten then?"
*[[:Category:Inactive Eduzendium Authors]]
| [[Papua New Guinea people|Papua New Guineans]]
*[[:Category:Inactive Topic Informant Authors]]
| [[BBC]] News, March 2002<ref>''BBC News'': [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1848553.stm Long line of princely gaffes]'. 1st March 2002.</ref>
|-
| [[Lockerbie]], Scotland
| Survivor of the [[Lockerbie Bombing]] living on a road where 11 residents had died
| "People usually say that after a fire it is water damage that is the worst. We are still trying to dry out [[Windsor Castle]]."
| Victims' families; survivors
| [[BBC]] News, August 1999<ref>''BBC News'': [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/416992.stm Prince Philip's gaffes]'. 10th August 1999.</ref>
|-
| [[Cardiff]], Wales
| [[Teenager]]s from the [[British Deaf Association]] near a [[Jamaica]]n [[steel drum]] band
| Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf."
| [[Deaf people]]; [[Jamaican people|Jamaican]]s; steel drummers
| [[BBC]] News, August 1999<ref>''BBC News'': [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/354666.stm Deaf insulted by duke's remark]'. 10th August 1999.</ref>
|-
| [[Australia]]
| [[Indigenous Australian people|Australian Aboriginal]]s
| "Still throwing [[spear]]s?"
| Aboriginal people<ref>The BBC reports that the addressee took no offence.</ref>
| [[BBC]] News, March 2002<ref>''BBC News'': [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/1848813.stm Prince Philip's spear 'gaffe']'. 1st March 2002.</ref>
|-
| [[Budapest]], [[Hungary]]
| British citizen
| "You can't have been here that long - you haven't got a pot belly."
| [[Hungarian people|Hungarians]]
| [[BBC]] News, March 2002<ref>''BBC News'': [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1848553.stm Long line of princely gaffes]'. 1st March 2002.</ref>
|-
| [[Edinburgh]], Scotland
| [[Electronics]] company workers
| [Seeing a [[fuse box]]] "It looks as though it was put in by an [[Indian people|Indian]]."
| [[Indian people|Indians]]<ref>The BBC reported that the Duke was defended by Dr [[Shanfi Kauser]], Secretary of the Islamic Centre in Glasgow: "He is a nice man and I don't think he has done anything out of malice. I believe he has not done anything wrong. On other occasions he has been very complimentary to us. We should not bring him into a dispute. I think he should be excused."</ref>
| [[BBC]] News, August 1999<ref>''BBC News'': [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/416297.stm Royal apology for race remark]'. 10th August 1999.</ref>
|-
| [[China]]
| The world
| [On [[Beijing]]] "Ghastly."
| The people of Beijing; The Chinese (again)
| [[BBC]] News, August 1999<ref>''BBC News'': [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/416992.stm Prince Philip's gaffes]'. 10th August 1999.</ref>
|-
| [[Cayman Islands]]
| Cayman Islander
| "Aren't most of you descended from [[pirate]]s?"
| Cayman Islanders
| [[BBC]] News, March 2002<ref>''BBC News'': [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1848553.stm Long line of princely gaffes]'. 1st March 2002.</ref>
|-
| UK, at the height of the 1981 [[recession]]
| The world
| "Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are [[unemployment|unemployed]]."
| The unemployed; anyone made [[redundancy|redundant]]
| [[BBC]] News, March 2002<ref>''BBC News'': [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1848553.stm Long line of princely gaffes]'. 1st March 2002.</ref>
|-
| [[Duke of Edinburgh Award]] ceremony, 2006
| British student about to do voluntary work in [[Romania]]
| [On finding that the student wouldn't be working in an [[orphanage]]] "There's so many over there you feel they breed them just to put in orphanages."<ref>Uncorroborated/</ref>
| [[Romanian people|Romanians]]; orphans
| ''[[The Scotsman]]'', July 2006<ref>''The Scotsman'': [http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=255&id=998522006 Duke under fire for Romanian orphans 'joke']'. 8th July 2006.</ref>
|-
| [[University of Salford]], UK
| 13-year-old boy
| [Informing boy on requirements to fly a [[spaceship] "You could do with losing a bit of weight."
| Boy; his parents; fat people
| ''[[Manchester Evening News]]'', July 2001<ref>''The Scotsman'': [http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/29/29277_prince_tells_boy_youre_too_fat_for_spaceship.html Prince tells boy: You're too fat for spaceship]'. 26th July 2001.</ref>
|-
| [[Jallianwala Bagh Massacre|Jallianwala Bagh (Amritsar) Massacre]] monument, India, 1997
| The world
| [disputing final casualty total of 2,000] "That's not right. The number is less."
| Indians
| [[BBC]] News, August 1999<ref>''BBC News'': [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/354666.stm Deaf insulted by duke's remark]'. 10th August 1999.</ref>
|-
| Foreword to ''If I Were an Animal'', 1986 (with [[Cowles Fleur]])<ref>Morrow. ISBN 0688061508.</ref>
| The world
| ''I just wonder what it would be like to be [[reincarnation|reincarnated]] in an [[animal]] whose [[species]] had been so reduced in numbers than it was in danger of [[extinction]]. What would be its feelings toward the [[[human]] species whose [[population]] explosion had denied it somewhere to exist... I must confess that I am tempted to ask for reincarnation as a particularly deadly [[virus]].''
| Peoples of densely-populated countries
| ''prisonplanet.com''<ref>''prisonplanet.com'': [http://www.prisonplanet.com/Pages/100604_prince_philip.html Prince Philip, In His Own Words: We Need To 'Cull' The Surplus Population]'. 10th June 2004.</ref>
|-
| ''Shooting and Conservation'' [[magazine]], 1998
| Farmers; [[rural]] folk
| "The recent Countryside March was a dramatic expression of the anxiety of country people about the growing influence of the perceptions and attitudes of townspeople on popular opinion. In many cases there are deeply held beliefs, but I suspect that in most cases it is due to ignorance."
| Anyone who lives in a [[town]] or [[city]]
| [[BBC]] News, August 1998<ref>''BBC News'': [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/146441.stm Prince Philip attacks 'townies' ]'. 6th August 1998.</ref>
|-
| BBC Radio, 1996, following the [[Dunblane massacre]] of 16 children and their [[teaching|teacher]] by a [[gun]]man in Scotland
| The world
| [On banning firearms] "If a [[cricket]]er, 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?"
| Victims' families; survivors; victims of gun crime
| [[BBC]] News, March 2002<ref>''BBC News'': [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1848553.stm Long line of princely gaffes]'. 1st March 2002.</ref>
|}

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