Prince Philip, that prince among consorts, who recently celebrated his 90th birthday, has been a source of endless joy and delight for harried press officers the world over.
Offering his opinion of Stoke-on-Trent to the city's Labour MP, Joan Walley, in 1997, the prince searched deep within his lexicon before reaching for ‘ghastly'. But then he also found China's capital Beijing to be ‘ghastly' during his infamous tour in 1986.
