Oh Knickers... another Royal gaffe.

Prince Philip's bloomer as he asks Scottish Tory leader if she is wearing tartan knickers

By FAY SCHLESINGER
Last updated at 9:31 AM on 17th September 2010

He is months from his 90th birthday, but the Duke of Edinburgh still has still got it when it comes to a little light flirting.

Yet for him no occasion is complete without a gaffe, and amid the pomp of the Papal visit today the royal managed a 'bloomer' of a particularly risqué nature.

While the Pope greeted other dignitaries at a midday reception, Prince Philip mingled with Scottish political heavyweights Annabel Goldie, the country's Tory leader, and her Labour counterpart Iain Gray, 53.

Papal visit: Scotland's Tory leader Annabel Goldie, second left, at the unveiling of the Pope's tartan last week. Today she was asked if she was wearing knickers in the same material by Prince Philip

The Duke began by politely admiring the unusual blue-green tartan of Mr Gray's tie, which had been designed specially to commemorate the Pontiff's visit.

'That's a nice tie,' the Duke said, before leaning over to matronly Miss Goldie, 60, and asking: 'Do you have any knickers in that material?'

 

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The prim and proper spinster replied: 'I couldn't possibly comment. And if I had, I couldn't possibly exhibit them.'

Fortunately she later saw the funny side. 'It's marvellous that humour is alive and well in the Royal Family,' she said.

The Duke's blunders span the decades.

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