Royal racist? What's new...
Prince Harry's use of the term 'paki' when referring to an asian colleague in the army is splashed across the newspapers today. Ok, so he's wrong to use such an obviously racist term, but why is everyone so shocked? Racism isn't exactly a rareity in the royal family now is it? Look at his grandfather Prince Philip? His racial faux pas are legendary (and although I shouldn't find them funny, I think his quips are SO poltically incorrect, they're hilarious!). To name but a few:
"If you stay here much longer, you’ll all be slitty-eyed."
China State Visit, 1986
“Do you know they have eating dogs for the anorexic now?”
To a blind women with a guide
“Do you still throw spears at each other?”
To an Aborigine in Australia
“The bastards murdered half my family”
When asked if he would like to visit the Soviet Union
“You can’t have been here that long - you haven’t got a pot belly.”
To a Briton in Budapest
“How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?”
To a driving instructor in Scotland
“You managed not to get eaten, then?”
To a student who had been trekking in Papua New Guinea
“You look like you’re ready for bed!”
To the President of Nigeria, dressed in traditional robes
“Brazilians live there”
On key problems facing Brazil
"Are you Indian or Pakistani? I can never tell the difference between you chaps."
Duke of Edinburgh Prince Philip, at Washington Embassy reception for Commonwealth members
"If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has 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."
Duke of Edinburgh Prince Philip, commending on Chinese eating habits to World Wildlife Fund Conference in 1986
"It looks as though it was put in by an Indian."
Observation on a messy fuse box during a visit to a factory in 1999
You can just imagine the queen rolling her eyes into the back of her head in dispair with each monumentally idiotic comment he throws straight to the press. Makes Prince Harry look like a saint in comparison.
"If you stay here much longer, you’ll all be slitty-eyed."
China State Visit, 1986
“Do you know they have eating dogs for the anorexic now?”
To a blind women with a guide
“Do you still throw spears at each other?”
To an Aborigine in Australia
“The bastards murdered half my family”
When asked if he would like to visit the Soviet Union
“You can’t have been here that long - you haven’t got a pot belly.”
To a Briton in Budapest
“How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?”
To a driving instructor in Scotland
“You managed not to get eaten, then?”
To a student who had been trekking in Papua New Guinea
“You look like you’re ready for bed!”
To the President of Nigeria, dressed in traditional robes
“Brazilians live there”
On key problems facing Brazil
"Are you Indian or Pakistani? I can never tell the difference between you chaps."
Duke of Edinburgh Prince Philip, at Washington Embassy reception for Commonwealth members
"If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has 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."
Duke of Edinburgh Prince Philip, commending on Chinese eating habits to World Wildlife Fund Conference in 1986
"It looks as though it was put in by an Indian."
Observation on a messy fuse box during a visit to a factory in 1999
You can just imagine the queen rolling her eyes into the back of her head in dispair with each monumentally idiotic comment he throws straight to the press. Makes Prince Harry look like a saint in comparison.
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