During a state visit to China in 1986, Philip told a group of British students: "If you stay here much longer, you'll all be slitty-eyed." In 1994, he asked an islander in the Cayman Islands: "Aren't most of you descended from pirates?" Four years later, speaking to a student who had been trekking in Papua New Guinea, he said, "You managed not to get eaten, then?"
