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DZ Season 052 Part 02. HRH Prince Philip. What a Mouth! What a Mouth! What a North and South! Elizabeth meets a Young Naval Cadet at Dartmouth College.
During a visit to Cape Canaveral, to inspect the Space Shuttle, Prince Philip was introduced to a young thirteen year old boy, Andrew Adams. Andrew told Prince Philip that it was his ambition to be an astronaut. Prince Philip looked him up and down and said to him:
“Well, you’ll never fly in it; you’re too fat to be an astronaut … You could do with losing a bit of weight.”
Just the sort of remark that got a lot of people, who couldn’t laugh, upset.
But you know, you really do just have to laugh at some of the outrageous things that Philip said.
Prince Philip started carrying out engagements as the Royal Consort, after Her Majesty, Elizabeth, became the Queen. That was back on 2 March 1948 when he was 37 years old. He performed his last solo engagement on 2nd August 2017 – 69 years later. Over those years Prince Philip carried out 22,219 solo engagements. I don’t know how many he carried out with Queen Elizabeth or other royals, but the number would have to be staggering. Even in his retirement year, when he was 96 years old, he was still one of the most active members of the royal family rendering public service.
So, in my book, Prince Philip can say anything he damn well likes, and unless you’ve given as much service to the public as he has, I don’t care what you think about him.
In this programme I’m going to explore more of the fascinating life of Prince Philip.
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By Paul FordyceDuring a visit to Cape Canaveral, to inspect the Space Shuttle, Prince Philip was introduced to a young thirteen year old boy, Andrew Adams. Andrew told Prince Philip that it was his ambition to be an astronaut. Prince Philip looked him up and down and said to him:
“Well, you’ll never fly in it; you’re too fat to be an astronaut … You could do with losing a bit of weight.”
Just the sort of remark that got a lot of people, who couldn’t laugh, upset.
But you know, you really do just have to laugh at some of the outrageous things that Philip said.
Prince Philip started carrying out engagements as the Royal Consort, after Her Majesty, Elizabeth, became the Queen. That was back on 2 March 1948 when he was 37 years old. He performed his last solo engagement on 2nd August 2017 – 69 years later. Over those years Prince Philip carried out 22,219 solo engagements. I don’t know how many he carried out with Queen Elizabeth or other royals, but the number would have to be staggering. Even in his retirement year, when he was 96 years old, he was still one of the most active members of the royal family rendering public service.
So, in my book, Prince Philip can say anything he damn well likes, and unless you’ve given as much service to the public as he has, I don’t care what you think about him.
In this programme I’m going to explore more of the fascinating life of Prince Philip.
Tag words: Prince Philip; Duke of Edinburgh; Royal Consort; Princess Elizabeth; Queen Elizabeth II; Queen of England; Cape Canaveral; Space Shuttle; Andrew Adams; King Edward VIII; Wallis Simpson; Duke and Duchess of York; King George VI; Lilibet; Winston Churchill; Clementine; Prince David; King George V; Stanley Baldwin; Fat Scottish cook; Joachim von Ribbentrop; Nazi; Royal Air Force; Dickie Mountbatten; Lady Edwina Ashley; Princess Margaret; Adolf Hitler; Reich Chancellor; World War II; Communist Russia; Communist China; HMS Ramillies; Vice-Admiral Harold Tom Baillie-Grohman; Thomson M1928 submachine gun; Tommy Gun; Luftwaffe; the Blitz; Buckingham Palace; Hatfield Campus; University of Hertfordshire; Joseph Goebbels; Soviet Union; Helmut Kohl;