Prince Philip once joked that “only a Scotsman could survive Scottish education” - as he was being made chancellor of the University of Edinburgh.
Throughout a life of royal service, the Duke will perhaps be best remembered for the gaffes which often forced Buckingham Palace into furious backtracking and embarrassing apologies.
Philip passed away on Friday at the age of 99, Buckingham Palace confirmed.
The Duke remained patron, president or member of around 30 Edinburgh-based organisations, including the Universities of Edinburgh and Heriot Watt, the Royal Botanical and Zoological Societies of Scotland, the National Galleries, Royal British Legion and the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce and Enterprise even after retiring from royal duties in 2017.
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His no holds barred style of royal engagement occasionally saw him 'put his foot in it,' though the Duke claimed he was often "misunderstood".
However, he seemed to reserve some of his most controversial comments for trips north of the border, with several moments leaving the royals red-faced occurring in and around the Capital.
In 1999, the Duke was forced to deny claims of racism after suggesting that a fuse box at a factory in West Lothian “looked like it was put in by an Indian,” before later clarifying “I meant cowboys.”
Shortly after taking up his position as chancellor at the Capital’s top university in 1953, he earned the ire of another educational institution after exclaiming “this could only happen at a technical college” when a lift he was in at Heriot Watt University became stuck.
Discussing tartan with then-Scottish Tory leader Annabel Goldie in 2010 at a Papal reception in Edinburgh, he said: “That’s a nice tie... Do you have any knickers in that material?”.
He also asked a driving instructor in Oban: “How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?”
But while some of his comments verged on the light-hearted, others attracted considerable and understandable fury.
In the aftermath of the Dunblane massacre in 1996, in which Thomas Hamilton killed 16 school children and one teacher, he weighed into the debate on gun control, claiming: “If a cricketer suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, are you going to ban cricket bats?”
That came three years after he told residents of Lockerbie following the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103: “People say after a fire it’s water damage that’s the worst. We’re still drying out Windsor Castle.”
