The Prince apparently took exception to being corrected when he complimented Australian Jamie Durie on the fine tree fern in his gold-medal winning display.
When Mr Durie informed him that the plant was actually a Macrozamia moorei, part of the cycad family, the 86-year-old Prince is said to have muttered: "I didn't come here to get a lesson".
Prince Philip is an idiot. Apparently, Jamie Durie was not aware of how to respond to royal 'small talk'. Regardless, Philip is still an idiot.
His off-the-cuff remarks have got him in trouble over the years.
In 1999, he said that an old fashioned fuse box in Edinburgh looked as though "it was put in by an Indian", while during a visit to China in 1986 he described Peking as "ghastly" and told British students: "If you stay here much longer you'll all be slitty-eyed."
Apparently he is racist too.
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Thankfully tomorrow is Friday.
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