![]() Then they come back and make life difficult for parents. "Holidays are curious things, aren't they? You send children to school to get them out of your hair. "Any bloody fool can lay a wreath at the thingamy." Discussing his role in an interview with Jeremy Paxman.ĥ2. "No, I would probably end up spitting it out over everybody." Prince Philip declines the offer of some fish from Rick Stein's seafood deli in 2000.ĥ1. Simon Kelner: "I'm the editor-in-chief of The Independent, Sir."Īn exchange at a press reception to mark the Golden Jubilee in 2002.ĥ0. "During the Blitz a lot of shops had their windows blown in and sometimes they put up notices saying, 'More open than usual.' I now declare this place more open than usual." Unveiling a plaque at the University of Hertfordshire's new Hatfield campus in November 2003. "It's a vast waste of space." Philip entertained guests in 2000 at the reception of a new £18m British Embassy in Berlin, which the Queen had just opened.Ĥ8. He added the following day: "It is very difficult at all to see how it is possible to become immensely valuable by singing what I think are the most hideous songs."ġ6. "What do you gargle with – pebbles?" To Tom Jones, after the Royal Variety Performance, 1969. We didn't have counsellors rushing around every time somebody let off a gun, asking 'Are you all right - are you sure you don't have a ghastly problem?' You just got on with it!" On the issue of stress counselling for servicemen in a TV documentary marking the 50th Anniversary of V-J Day in 1995.ġ5. "British women can't cook." Winning the hearts of the Scottish Women's Institute in 1961.ġ4. ![]() ![]() People don't seem to make up their minds what they want." A man of the people shares insight into the recession that gripped Britain in 1981.ġ3. Now that everybody's got more leisure time they are complaining they are unemployed. "A few years ago, everybody was saying we must have more leisure, everyone's working too much.
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