Prince Philip Reveals His Technology Woes: To Operate A TV You "Practically Have To Make Love To [It]"

LONDON — He may be married to Queen Elizabeth II, but Prince Philip has the same technological troubles as millions of commoners.

The 88-year-old prince has bemoaned the complexity of television remote controls, saying attempts to record programs often end up with him lying on the floor with a flashlight, a magnifying glass and an instruction manual.

The comments came in an interview posted Saturday on Buckingham Palace's official YouTube channel.

The prince was celebrating the 50th anniversary of a design prize named for him. He said that in some areas, like television, the quality of design remained "ghastly."

The Times newspaper quoted Philip in the same interview as saying "to work out how to operate a TV set you practically have to make love to the thing."

Comments

[Tidyus]

10:12 PM on 12/14/2009

And that makes it a problem for him?

[Ridge3000]

01:58 PM on 12/06/2009

A remote for prince Philip.
Finally there is a remote control without buttons.
Please check www.bikkel.com

[newTheory]

02:37 PM on 10/14/2009

Uh, Your Highness, I believe your remote is stuck on the porn channel.

[Imzadi]

10:35 AM on 10/14/2009

Phillip, what's with all the complaining?

You have PEOPLE to do that for you...

[rcmfla]

03:56 AM on 10/13/2009

That poor clicker!

Note to self: Don't touch Prince Philips clicker ever!

[Whitley2009]

12:19 PM on 10/11/2009

Please, no more British royalty. We Americans fought three wars with Britain to escape the madness of those buffoons.

Do they still use the plural when addressing themselves, e.g., We think, We feel, do it for Us. This signifies that when they speak, they and GOD are talking. After all, it's a case of Dieu et mon droit,
i.e., God and my right.

Please keep British royalty in Britain.

[deluk]

02:56 PM on 10/11/2009

What a load of crap. We hardly recognise the existence of god anymore. What do you have written on your banknotes? 'in god we trust' or something. We have a nice picture of Charles Darwin on ours

[sph272]

05:23 PM on 10/11/2009

Your assumption that the greatness of societies can be measured by the how much they believe in Godis fallacious and, dare I say, intolerant.

Everyone finds their own answer to the greatest un-answerable question. It's where thinking stops that we should be concerned. As with fundamentalist Christians shutting down thought at the mention of evolution, fundamentalist atheists shut down thought at the mention of God.

[RSKaz]

10:43 AM on 10/11/2009

Suffice it to say this blue blood won't be getting a Blu-ray for xmas.

[TN60]

08:35 AM on 10/11/2009

What do you expect from a guy whose main job it is to trail after the Queen for a hundred years and help with offsprings.

He might have to protect her purse....did you ever think about that ? LOL

[yemaya]

08:25 AM on 10/11/2009

Uh Prince Phillip sweetie, that's not the TV.....................................

[yemaya]

08:22 AM on 10/11/2009

If you can't operate a tv what makes you think you can operate a vagina?

[garyhere]

07:58 AM on 10/11/2009

that's what happens when inbreeding and generations of being the highest paid welfare recipients in the world do to your intelligence. if these worthless con artists, whose only claim to fame is who their ancestors were, were made to actually support themselves, they would starve to death. just shows how stupid the British are to support a king and queen!

[deluk]

09:20 AM on 10/11/2009

Well that must apply to the Dutch, Swedes, Danes, Norwegians,and Spanish too, all countries noticeably more socially advanced than the US (yes, even Spain)

I guess to be not stupid you need to hail from the nation that elected GWB, TWICE!!

[itsme leclerc]

07:27 AM on 10/11/2009

that's what happens when you want to watch porn in the middle of the night in a dark room, when the Queen think you're sleeping. Explains the floor and the flashlight.

[DKLabRat]

07:14 AM on 10/11/2009

I thought this was hilarious. A magnifying glass, a torch and an instruction manual, huh? The Queen must have an interesting sex life.

[1will]

06:44 AM on 10/11/2009

Wow, those Brits really love their televisions.

[YeWight]

06:00 AM on 10/11/2009

I don't think his "love" trick would work. The screen would not be viewable. Or, at his age, perhaps it would?