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More Philip:
26. "We didn't have counsellors rushing around every time somebody let off a gun, asking 'Are you all right -- are you sure you don't have a ghastly problem?' You just got on with it!"
On stress counselling for servicemen, in a TV documentary marking the 50th anniversary of VJ Day in 1995.
27. "Aren't most of you descended from pirates?"
Cayman Islands, 1994.
28. "You must be out of your minds."
To Solomon Islanders in 1982, on being told population growth was 5 per cent a year.
29. "And what exotic part of the world do you come from?"
Asked in 1999 of Tory politician Lord Taylor of Warwick, whose parents are Jamaican. He replied: "Birmingham."
30. "The French don't know how to cook breakfast."
After a breakfast of bacon, eggs, smoked salmon, kedgeree, croissants and pain au chocolat -- from Gallic chef Regis Crepy -- in 2002.
31. "Ah you're the one who wrote the letter. So you can write then? Ha, ha! Well done."
Meeting 14-year-old George Barlow, who invited the Queen to visit Romford, Essex, in 2003.
32. "Do you still throw spears at each other?"
To Aboriginal leader William Brim at the Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park in Queensland, 2002.
33. "Were you here in the bad old days? . . . That's why you can't read and write then!"
To parents during a visit to a Sheffield school with a poor academic reputation.
34. "Where's the Southern Comfort?"
On being presented with a hamper of southern goods by the American ambassador in London in 1999.
35. "Were you here in the bad old days? . . . That's why you can't read and write then!"
To parents during a visit to a Sheffield school with a poor academic reputation.
36. "So who's on drugs here? . . . He looks as if he's on drugs."
To a 14-year-old member of a Bangladeshi youth club in 2002.
37. "You could do with losing a little bit of weight."
To 13-year-old would-be astronaut Andrew Adams.
38. "You have mosquitoes. I have the press."
To the matron of a hospital in the Caribbean in 1966.
39. "Any bloody fool can lay a wreath at the thingamy."
Discussing his role in an interview with the BBC's Jeremy Paxman.
40. "People think there's a rigid class system here, but dukes have even been known to marry chorus girls. Some have even married Americans."
In 2000.
41. "No, I would probably end up spitting it out over everybody."
Declining the offer of some fish from Rick Stein's seafood delicatessen in 2000.
42. "Can you tell the difference between them?"
On being told by US President Barack Obama that he'd had breakfast with the leaders of Britain, China and Russia.
43. "I don't know how they are going to integrate in places like Glasgow and Sheffield."
After meeting students from Brunei coming to Britain to study in 1998.
44. "Do people trip over you?"
To a wheelchair-bound nursing-home resident in 2002.
45. "That's a nice tie . . . Do you have any knickers in that material?"
Discussing the tartan designed for the 2010 papal visit with then Scottish Tory leader Annabel Goldie.
46. "Well, you didn't design your beard too well, did you? You really must try better with your beard."
Kindly advice to a young fashion designer in 2009.
47. "Ah, so this is feminist corner then."
Joining a group of female Labour MPs, who were wearing name badges reading "Ms", at a Buckingham Palace drinks party in 2000.
48. "If it doesn't fart or eat hay, she isn't interested." Of his daughter, Princess Anne.
49. "It looks like a tart's bedroom."
On seeing plans for the Duke and then-Duchess of York's house.
50. "My son . . . er . . . owns them."
On being asked in Canada whether he knew the Scilly Isles.
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