The Duke of Edinburgh was perhaps best known for his gaffes.
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He shocked and sometimes delighted the public with his outspoken remarks and clangers.
His reputation for plain speaking often led to controversy, but he was once branded a "national treasure" by the press for his inability to curb his off-the-cuff remarks.
He claimed he was misunderstood.
In fact, the duke was "misunderstood" almost everywhere he went.
Here are some of Philip's famous comments:
"British women can't cook" - in Britain in 1966.
"What do you gargle with - pebbles?" - speaking to singer Tom Jones after the 1969 Royal Variety Performance.
"I declare this thing open, whatever it is" - on a visit to Canada in 1969.
"Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed" - during the 1981 recession.
"If it has got 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" - at a 1986 World Wildlife Fund meeting.
"It looks like a tart's bedroom" - on seeing plans for the Duke and Duchess of York's house at Sunninghill Park in 1988.
"Yak, yak, yak; come on, get a move on" - shouted from the deck of the Royal Yacht Britannia in Belize in 1994 to the Queen, who was chatting to her hosts on the quayside.
"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" - about the Second World War, commenting on modern stress counselling for servicemen in 1995.
"How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?" - to a driving instructor in Oban, Scotland, during a 1995 walkabout.
"If a cricketer, for instance, suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, which he could do very easily, I mean, are you going to ban cricket bats?" - in 1996, amid calls to ban firearms after the Dunblane shooting.
"Bloody silly fool!" - in 1997, referring to a Cambridge University car park attendant who did not recognise him.
"It looks as if it was put in by an Indian" - pointing at an old-fashioned fusebox in a factory near Edinburgh in 1999.
"Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf" - to young deaf people in Cardiff in 1999, referring to a school's steel band.
"If you stay here much longer, you'll all be slitty-eyed" - to British students in China, during the 1986 state visit.
"Oh no, I might catch some ghastly disease" - in Australia in 1992, when asked to stroke a koala.
"You managed not to get eaten, then?" - suggesting in 1998 to a student who had been trekking in Papua New Guinea that tribes there were still cannibals.
In Germany, in 1997, he welcomed German Chancellor Helmut Kohl at a trade fair as "Reichskanzler" - the last German leader who used that title was Adolf Hitler.
"Do you still throw spears at each other?" - in Australia in 2002, talking to a successful Aboriginal entrepreneur.
"There's a lot of your family in tonight" - after looking at the name badge of businessman Atul Patel at a Buckingham Palace reception for British Indians in October 2009.
"Bits are beginning to drop off" - on approaching his 90th birthday in 2011.
"Just take the f****** picture" - losing patience with an RAF photographer at events to mark the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain in July 2015.
"If it doesn't fart or eat hay, she's not interested" - on the Princess Royal.
"When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife" - on marriage.
"It's a pleasant change to be in a country that isn't ruled by its people" - to Paraguayan dictator Alfredo Stroessner.
Australian Associated Press