May
6
A report from MSNBC:
While the queen continues her tour on the Peninsula on Friday, her husband, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, will be in Norfolk.
The former naval officer is coming for lunch and a reception on board the USS Wisconsin. As a World War II veteran, Prince Philip actually shares a little history with the battleship. His Norfolk visit will honor service members from the US and Great Britain.
The USS Wisconsin and the City of Norfolk, will welcome royalty. The Duke’s time will be spent meeting with members of the military and their families. (Photo: Yahoo News)
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I wonder if HRH made any cheeky remarks. Philip has a checkered past of saying odd things:
Speaking to a driving instructor in Scotland, he asked: “How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?”
When visiting China in 1986, he told a group of British students, “If you stay here much longer, you’ll all be slitty-eyed.”
He asked an Indigenous Australian, “Still throwing spears?”
Seeing a shoddily installed fuse box in a high-tech Edinburgh factory, HRH remarked that it looked “like it was put in by an Indian.”
When listening to a speech given by Cherie Blair, wife of Tony Blair, in 1999, he was reported by several MPs as having said, very loudly, “you could post a letter through that mouth.”
At Salford University, he told a 13-year-old aspiring astronaut: “You could do with losing a bit of weight.”
(From Wiki)
The Duke is my kind of guy.