If you travel as much as we do, you appreciate the improvements in aircraft design of less noise and more comfort - provided you don't travel in something called economy class, which sounds ghastly.
Prince PhilipThey're a damn nuisance - I've got one in my bathroom and every time I run my bath the steam sets it off.
Prince PhilipIt seems to me that it's the best way of wasting money that I know of. I don't think investments on the moon pay a very high dividend.
Prince PhilipI don't claim to have any special interest in natural history, but as a boy I was made aware of the annual fluctuations in the number of game animals and the need to adjust the cull to the size of the surplus population.
Prince PhilipI just wonder what it would be like to be reincarnated in an animal whose species had been so reduced in numbers than it was in danger of extinction. What would be its feelings toward the human species whose population explosion had denied it somewhere to exist. I must confess that I am tempted to ask for reincarnation as a particularly deadly virus.
Prince Philip