In Scotland :
* to a driving instructor in 1995 :
"How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?"
* controversially in 1999 in Edinburgh, when he saw an untidy fuse box during a tour of a factory : "It looks as though it was put in by an Indian." and later backtracked with :
“I meant to say cowboys.”
* to Lockerbie residents after the plane bombing, 1993:
“People say after a fire it’s water damage that’s the worst. We’re still drying out Windsor Castle.”
* at a Scottish fish farm:
“Oh! You’re the people ruining the rivers.”
To / about Individuals :
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“What are you doing here?”
“I was invited, sir.”
"Well, you didn't need to come."
* to a woman solicitor, 1987:
“I thought it was against the law for a woman to solicit.”
* to a civil servant, 1970:
“You’re just a silly little Whitehall twit: you don’t trust me and I don’t trust you.”
* about Tom Jones in 1969:
“It’s difficult to see how it’s possible to become immensely valuable by singing what are the most hideous songs.”
* on how difficult it is in Britain to get rich:
“What about Tom Jones? He’s made a million and he’s a bloody awful singer.”
* about stress counselling for servicemen in 1995:
“We didn’t have counsellors rushing around every time somebody let off a gun. You just got on with it!”
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* to black politician, Lord Taylor of Warwick, 1999:
“And what exotic part of the world do you come from?”
* to Andrew Adams age 13, in 1998:
“You could do with losing a little bit of weight.”
* to a fashion writer in 1993:
“You’re not wearing mink knickers,are you?”
* to Susan Edwards, blind and wheelchair-bound and her guide dog in 2002:
“They have eating dogs for the anorexic now.”
* to Elton John on his gold Aston Martin in 2001:
“Oh, it’s you that owns that ghastly car, is it?”
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To Groups :
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* to multi-ethnic 'Britain’s Got Talent' 2009 winners 'Diversity':
“Are you all one family?”
* to the Aircraft Research Association in 2002:
“If you travel as much as we do, you appreciate the improvements in aircraft design of less noise and more comfort – provided you don’t travel in something called economy class, which sounds ghastly.”
* at Duke of Edinburgh Awards scheme, 2006 :
“Young people are the same as they always were. Just as ignorant.”
“Young people are the same as they always were. Just as ignorant.”
* to a group of deaf youngsters and referring to a school's steel band :
"Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf."
“Ghastly.”
* at Hertfordshire University in 2003:
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* about his son, the Duke of York’s house in 1986:
“It looks like a tart’s bedroom.”
Prince Philip, a national treasure, soon to fall silent.
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