Snopes: ✅ Yes, Prince Philip said that he would like to be reincarnated as a deadly virus as a form

[soothsayer]

Yes, Prince Philip said that he would like to be reincarnated as a deadly virus as a form of revenge against human overpopulation.

Link to tweet

?s=21

[ananda]

1. I don't think much of Brit royals worrying about population.

They have such a long nazi/eugenicist history;

plus they are pretty much walking advertisements
for birth control themselves.

[Haggard Celine]

2. I think Prince Philip had a weird sense of humor.

And he was pretty racist. But I don't know if a man's life should be judged by a few incidents of saying weird or racist things. You have to wonder what his family thought of him.

[mitch96]

5. "And he was pretty racist." I'm just gonna throw this out there...

I bet he was the one who questioned the color of Megans baby.. YMMV
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[Haggard Celine]

7. Yeah, he's the most likely candidate.

Obama told him he had been to China and Philip said, "how did you tell them apart." Yep, pretty racist, that one.

[OnDoutside]

18. He was the one that came first to my mind when i heard it.

[CottonBear]

19. Harry & Meghan told Oprah it was not the Queen or Prince Phillip. NT

[tenderfoot]

13. Prince Philip had a weird sense of humor. View profile And he was pretty racist.

Yeah he was

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/prince-philip-quotes-jokes-gaffes-b1829205.html

[WhiskeyGrinder]

3. Lord, who *didn't* think that racist old sack didn't say that?

[malaise]

4. Bet he never thought a virus would fuck up his funeral

Nature has a sense of humor

[FalloutShelter]

11. Rim shot.

[malaise]

14. LOL

[Hortensis]

6. Only imagine if she'd been married to a man worthy of representing

the peoples of the British once-empire. Hundreds of millions around the planet might be grieving the loss of a a very special person almost no one could remember not being in their lives.

Pathetically inadequate doesn't describe a lost opportunity that is worth mourning.

[no_hypocrisy]

8. Well, that wasn't especially witty.

[malaise]

12. This is

First the history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Fagan_(intruder)

then this calypso by the great Sparrow

A popular DJ was suspended for playing this on radio

[no_hypocrisy]

16. Good one!

[malaise]

17. Sparrow was the master of double entendres

He never missed a beat - he doesn't record these days (now nearly 86)

[dchill]

9. Funny things are often said.

This was not one of them.

[soothsayer]

10. Maybe it was pre-pandemic? Idk

[malaise]

20. Here's a good link

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2017/8/13/the-priceless-racism-of-the-duke-of-edinburgh/

The priceless racism of the Duke of Edinburgh

[Thtwudbeme]

15. He said it awhile back, pre-Covid. He had some serious "zingers."

Some of them were funny, a lot were "WTF?" moments.

And yes- he said some racist as hell things.