People. Say what you will about the man’s beliefs, consistent choice to speak via verbal diarrhoea, or propensity to swear harder than Jennifer Lawrence, you simply cannot deny Knight of The Order of Australia/Duke Of Edinburgh Prince Philip‘s commitment to staying achingly on-brand in all his royal pursuits.
Prince Philip shamelessly continued on his trend at a meeting with women at a community centre in Chadwell this week, where he reportedly asked a group of women, “Who do you sponge off?”
The face of a man with zero regrets.
‘Who do you sponge off?’ Prince Philip scores a gaffe hat-trick at community centre http://t.co/Z9ih3dcgRz pic.twitter.com/Nm6ADbuRu1
— The National (@ScotNational) July 17, 2015
Fairfax reports that the community centre’s chairman Ann Estlea was also taken aback by further comments made by Prince Philip. “It was quite funny because when I told the Duke I was a professional fundraiser he said ‘Do you have any friends left?’.”
No stranger to a glaring gaffe, Prince Philip has previously refused to pat a koala in fear of their “ghastly diseases“; called young people “ignorant” at an award ceremony for the very scheme targeted toward young people, named after him (the Duke of Edinburgh award); and asked a wheelchair-bound resident if “people trip over you“, among a truly heinous portfolio of others.
Last week, Prince Philip delivered the gaffe we didn’t know we needed in our lives – when he ran out of fucks to give and told a royal photographer to “take the fucking picture.”
Via CNN.
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