Ah no way, Phil the Greek was the only royal I ever liked. “British women can’t cook” “Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed” (during the 1981 recession). “You are a woman, aren’t you?” (in Kenya after accepting a small gift from a local woman). “If you stay here much longer you’ll all be slitty-eyed” (to a group of British students during a royal visit to China). “You can’t have been here that long, you haven’t got pot belly” (to a Briton he met in Hungary). “Aren’t most of you descended from pirates?” (to a wealthy islander in the Cayman Islands). “How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test” (to a Scottish driving instructor). “It looks as if it was put in by an Indian” (referring to an old-fashioned fuse box in a factory near Edinburgh). “Still throwing spears?” (question put to an Aboriginal Australian during a visit). “There’s a lot of your family in tonight” (after looking at the name badge of businessman Atul Patel at a Palace reception for British Indians). “The Philippines must be half-empty as you’re all here running the NHS” (on meeting a Filipino nurse at Luton and Dunstable Hospital).