Royal Buffoon

from:  http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/News/Prince-Philip-asks-Polish-scientist-Did-you-come-here-to-pick-raspberries-20130524082733.htm

Reminds me of the utterings of another buffoon, John Berndt. 

Prince Philip asks Polish scientist: 'Did you come here to pick raspberries?'

Written byCHRIS HAVERGAL

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He is renowned for his gaffes and unfortunate utterances – and it would seem the Duke of Edinburgh did it again when he visited Cambridge yesterday.
On his visit to the Medical Research Council’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB), Prince Philip is reported to have asked a Polish research student: “Did you come here to pick raspberries?”
It appears to be the latest in a long line of bloopers from the Queen’s consort.
In 2002, the 91-year-old asked a group of Australian aborigines: “Do you still throw spears at each other?”
While talking to a Scottish driving instructor, he remarked: “How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?”
He also reportedly reduced a 13-year-old boy to tears when he told him he would have to lose weight to fulfil his ambition of becoming an astronaut.
And he famously told a group of British students during a 1986 state visit to China that they would become “slitty-eyed” if they stayed in the country any longer.