Prince Philip is kinda like that really old, rather racist family member that doesn’t actually know that what he’s saying is wildly inappropriate.

Now, after more than 60 years of doing bugger all and living a life of luxury on taxpayer’s money royal duties, the old man is hanging up his boots and retiring from public life.

What a top effort, champ.

Of course those public appearances have come with their fair share of controversy, and no farewell would be complete without a look at some of his most spectacular “gaffes” over the years.

The Telegraph have a pretty exhaustive list of 48 times he dropped the ball, but let’s just start with 10:

“Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed” (during the 1981 recession).

“How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?” (to a driving instructor in Oban, Scotland, during a 1995 walkabout).

“You are a woman, aren’t you?”(In Kenya, in 1984, after accepting a small gift from a local woman).

“If you stay here much longer, you’ll all be slitty-eyed.” (to British students in China, during the 1986 state visit).

“You’re too fat to be an astronaut.” (to 13-year-old Andrew Adams who told Philip he wanted to go into space. Salford, 2001).

“Do you still throw spears at each other?” (In Australia in 2002 talking to a successful aborigine entrepreneur).

“If it doesn’t fart or eat hay, she’s not interested.” (on the Princess Royal)

“I declare this thing open, whatever it is.” (on a visit to Canada in 1969).

“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).

“You managed not to get eaten, then?” (suggesting to a student in 1998 who had been trekking in Papua New Guinea that tribes there were still cannibals).

Yeah, there’s 38 more of those right over HERE.

Let’s just call a spear a spear – the man is a bit of a racist.

[source:telegraph]