The golden words left by Prince Philipa are word for word. Because his wife owned so many colonies and traveled around the world, Prince Philip’s sense of humor was naturally dominated by the rich anthropology of the subject.
In this respect, Prince Philip’s quotations can be read in parallel with Churchill’s. The former is mischievous in its humor, but not as “wise” as the latter, because Prince Philip is only an imaginary king, not a prime minister.
On a visit to Papua New Guinea, when he met a British schoolgirl who was hiking there, Prince Philip smiled and asked, “Have you managed not to get eaten yet?” (You managed not to get eaten then?)
At one point he said he would also like to visit the Soviet Union, although “those Russian bastards have killed half my family. (I would like to go to Russia very much – although the bastards murdered half my family.)
The Chinese are most famous, of course, for being asked what he thought of his trip to China, which he summed up with the word Ghastly, and for meeting British schoolgirls on a tour of the Great Wall, where he joked, “Don’t stay here too long, or your eyes will be small when you return home.”
On a visit to Kenya in 1984, an indigenous woman representative presented a gift and Phila asked, “You ARE a woman, aren’t you?” (You ARE a woman, aren’t you?)
Prince Phila’s humor was never stopped by the Queen, or stopped ineffectually. So it can be assumed that this is the other side of the royal family’s outlook on life. If Harry Meghan doesn’t like it, she can certainly give up her royal title and quit to be a real proletarian woman fighter.
Prince Phila is an honorary patron of the International Wildlife Organization, probably influenced by the famous quote, “The more people I meet, the more I like dogs.” Cynical about people he doesn’t see eye to eye with, he is more genuinely passionate about animals, except for the occasional hunt. At a meal to raise funds for the rescue of wildlife he said, “There are four legs except for the table, a pair of wings except for the plane, can swim in the water except for the submarine, the Cantonese can eat.” (If it has 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.)
The phrase was originally a self-deprecating observation of Chinese food culture by Hong Kong people, but Prince Philip has translated it into English and carried it forward in an international context, happily. Only one correction is needed: Cantonese are also Chinese, and Guangdong is not a country, so Cantonese should be corrected to Chinese, and Wuhan, which eats bats and all kinds of wild animals, has confirmed this.
This is the only error in all Prince Philip’s golden words, and if overseas Chinese hear foreigners quoting them in the future, they should take the initiative to correct them.
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