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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]]
| [[Duke of Edinburgh Award]] ceremony, 2006
*[[:Category:Inactive Archaeology Authors]]
| British student about to do voluntary work in [[Romania]]
*[[:Category:Inactive Economics Authors]]
| [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>
*[[:Category:Inactive Education Authors]]
| [[Romanian people|Romanians]]; orphans
*[[:Category:Inactive Geography Authors]]
| ''[[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>
*[[:Category:Inactive Law Authors]]
|-
*[[:Category:Inactive Linguistics Authors]]
| [[Australia]], 2002
*[[:Category:Inactive Politics Authors]]
| [[Indigenous Australian people|Australian Aboriginal]]s
*[[:Category:Inactive Psychology Authors]]
| "Still throwing [[spear]]s?"
*[[:Category:Inactive Sociology Authors]]
| Aboriginal people<ref>The BBC reports that the addressee took no offence.</ref>
*[[:Category:Inactive Classics Authors]]
| [[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>
*[[:Category:Inactive History Authors]]
|-
*[[:Category:Inactive Literature Authors]]
| [[University of Salford]], [[England,]] 2001
*[[:Category:Inactive Philosophy Authors]]
| 13-year-old boy
*[[:Category:Inactive Religion Authors]]
| [Informing boy on requirements to fly a [[spaceship] "You could do with losing a bit of weight."
*[[:Category:Inactive Architecture Authors]]
| Boy; his parents; the overweight
*[[:Category:Inactive Music Authors]]
| ''[[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>
*[[:Category:Inactive Theater Authors]]
|-
*[[:Category:Inactive Visual Arts Authors]]
| [[Edinburgh]], [[Scotland]], 1999
*[[:Category:Inactive Agriculture Authors]]
| [[Electronics]] company workers
*[[:Category:Inactive Business Authors]]
| [Seeing a [[fuse box]]] "It looks as though it was put in by an [[Indian people|Indian]]."
*[[:Category:Inactive Computers Authors]]
| [[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>
*[[:Category:Inactive Engineering Authors]]
| [[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>
*[[:Category:Inactive Food Science Authors]]
|-
*[[:Category:Inactive Health Sciences Authors]]
| [[Cardiff]], [[Wales]], 1999
*[[:Category:Inactive Journalism Authors]]
| [[Teenager]]s from the [[British Deaf Association]] near a [[Jamaica]]n [[steel drum]] band
*[[:Category:Inactive Library and Information Science Authors]]
| Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf."
*[[:Category:Inactive Media Authors]]
| [[Deaf people]]; [[Jamaican people|Jamaican]]s; steel drummers
*[[:Category:Inactive Military Authors]]
| [[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>
*[[:Category:Inactive Robotics Authors]]
|-
*[[:Category:Inactive Games Authors]]
| [[Papua New Guinea]], 1998
*[[: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>
|-
| ''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>
|-
| [[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."
| [[Indian people|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>
|-
| [[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>
|-
| [[Oban]], Scotland, 1995
| Driving instructor
| "How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?"
| [[Scottish people|Scots]]
| [[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>
|-
| [[Cayman Islands]], 1994
| 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>
|-
| [[Lockerbie]], Scotland, 1993
| 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>
|-
| [[Budapest]], [[Hungary]], 1993
| 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>
|-
| [[China]], 1986
| [[United Kingdom|British]] [[student]]s
| "If you stay here much longer, you'll all be slitty-eyed."
| [[Chinese people|The Chinese]]
| [[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>
|-
| China, 1986
| 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>
|-
| 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>
|-
| [[World Wildlife Fund]] meeting, 1986
| WWF delegates; the world
| "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."
| [[Cantonese people|The Cantonese]]; other Chinese people
| [[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>
|-
| [[Kenya]], 1984
| [[Kenyan people|Kenyan]] tribeswoman
| "You are a [[woman]], aren't you?"
| [[Kenyan people|Kenyans]]; [[African people|African]]s
| [[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>
|-
| [[Royal Variety Performance]], 1969
| [[singing|Singer]] [[Tom Jones]]
| "What do you gargle with, pebbles?"
| Tom Jones; his fans
| [[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>
|-
| 1966
| The world
| "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>
| [[Woman|Women]]
| [[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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