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Let us remember some of his grace:

“If you stay here much longer, you’ll all be slitty-eyed.” (to British students in China, during the 1986 state visit)

“I declare this thing open, whatever it is.” (on a visit to Canada in 1969)

“I hope he breaks his bloody neck.” (when a photographer covering a royal visit to India fell out of a tree)

“Do you still throw spears at each other?” (in Australia in 2002, talking to a successful Indigenous Australian entrepreneur)

“Where did you get that hat?” (supposedly to the Queen at her coronation)

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