“How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?”

— Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Asked of a driving instructor in Scotland, as quoted in "Long line of princely gaffes" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1848553.stm, BBC News (1 March 2002) <br class="br">2000s

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