The memorable quotes that made Prince Philip a national treasure
The Duke of Edinburgh shocked and sometimes delighted the public with his outspoken remarks and clangers. His reputation for plain speaking often led to controversy, but he was once branded a "national treasure" by the press for his inability to curb his off-the-cuff remarks.
Here are some of Philip's most famous comments:
"I declare this thing open, whatever it is" - on a visit to Canada in 1969.
"Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed" - during the 1981 recession.
"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.
"It looks like a tart's bedroom" - on seeing plans for the Duke and Duchess of York's house at Sunninghill Park in 1988.
"Yak, yak, yak; come on, get a move on" - shouted from the deck of the Royal Yacht Britannia in Belize in 1994 to the Queen, who was chatting to her hosts on the quayside.
"How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?" - to a driving instructor in Oban, Argyll, during a 1995 walkabout.
"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 did not recognise him.
"It looks as if it was put in by an Indian" - pointing at an oldfashioned fusebox in a factory near Edinburgh in 1999.
"Oh no, I might catch some ghastly disease" - in Australia in 1992, when asked to stroke a koala.