Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and husband to the Queen of Great Britain, is well-known in Britain for cracking insensitive and racist jokes during public and royal visits. The recent film The Queen portrays Philip in much the same light, with inappropriate comments on homosexuals and Zulus. Wikipedia has a nice collection of these comments (with sources) excerpted below for your amusement:

• To a driving instructor in Scotland: “How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?”
• To British students in China: “If you stay here much longer, you’ll all be slitty-eyed”.
• After accepting a gift from a Kenyan citizen: “You are a woman, aren’t you?”
• To a British student in Papua New Guinea: “You managed not to get eaten then?”
• To a group of deaf children standing next to a Jamaican steel drum band, “Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf.”
• To an indigenous Australian: “Still throwing spears?”
• When listening to a speech given by Cherie Blair, wife of Tony Blair: “you could post a letter through that mouth.”
• To the President of Nigeria, dressed in traditional African robes: “You look like you’re ready for bed!”
• Seeing a shoddily installed fuse box in a high-tech factory: “looks like it was put in by an Indian”.
• On Peking: “ghastly”.
• To an islander in the Cayman Islands: “Aren’t most of you descended from pirates?”
• During the height of the 1981 recession: “Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.”
• To a 13-year-old aspiring astronaut: “You could do with losing a bit of weight.”
• On gun control: “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?”

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