Phillip at 90 - A new respect for the Queen

I fell asleep on the sofa tonight whilst I was watching the news. I woke up with the TV still blabbing away in the corner and I carried on slumbering deliciously, picking up snippets of the programme that was showing. It was a BBC interview with the Duke of Edinburgh.

Good lord! Is that what the Queen has had to put up with over the years? I genuinely feel sorry for her. I know that he is about to turn 90, but he came across as a man of very few words and those that he did manage were delivered in a terse and grumpy fashion. I have a new respect for 'her maj'. Dragging him around over the years must have been a real barrel of laughs.

Of course, the whole programme was an exercise in gushing and fawning. Apparently he won World War II all by himself, he...<insert your own favourite BBC royal gushings here>... and his farts are capable of curing cancer. Oh please! Do me a favour! Anyway, I think that it is my duty to introduce some balance to the proceedings by reminding us why all of us really love this man - his famous gilt-edged gaffes.

With all new Gaffe-Map, you too have a chance to enjoy them all over again. Simply click the tags on this world map to reveal a delicious selection of racist and insensitive cultural catastrophes. You not only get the gaffe - but you learn just how well he has spread his special talent across this big bad world of ours. For fans of his home-grown howlers, zoom in to the UK to get access to the massive cluster so generously delivered on this little island of ours. Now that's what I call service to the nation!