Why was Prince Philip allowed to keep saying offensive things?

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There are so many examples of Philip saying offensive things such as:

"If you stay here much longer you'll all be slitty-eyed." This was said to a group of students during a royal visit to China.

"If a cricketer, for instance, suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, which he could do very easily, I mean, are you going to ban cricket bats?" This was said in response to calls to ban guns after the Dunblane incident.

"It looks as if it was put in by an Indian." This was Philip talking about a fuse box in a factory.

There are so many more examples. Why was he allowed to act this way whilst representing the Royal Family? I like a laugh, I can take a joke, but he was so often just really offensive.

My granny lived and worked in London post war nursing. There was plenty of gossip about Philip in the 50s and 60s in the city. My mother was shocked because living a very church on Sunday, raising children in a small town, knowing your neighbours, scandal meant buying the news of the world.

I worked in London in the 70s and 80s- plenty of gossip about him then.

Philip and Elizabeth had an open marriage.
Whether it was 100% on on his side and 0 on hers we don’t know yet and may never know.

That they continued to sell the ‘loyal supporter / pious example to us all’ royal marriage lie was sickening in any case .

The same is no doubt true today . Loyalty is for the little people .

OH I've known people with one sided open marriages. It's not just the wealthy

No of course not

But these other people aren’t taking half a billion a year from the country while selling a lie to justify their rip off .

Have you personal knowledge that he behaved well?
Otherwise, you can’t possibly know. There have been so many accounts of affairs and gaffes , from those in his circle , there must be something in it. His comments about the cricket bats was crass and unforgivable. If someone in the Government had made them they would have been sacked, yet he was treated as an amiable, quirky old fellow!

It was because of the time but it was also because he was racist and allowed to be.
People who used to say racist things purely did it because they were racist, they probably still are but there are consequences the same as in 50 years time it will probably be unacceptable to say all the ableist tripe that gets trotted out day in day out on here without getting banned as you would for saying racist tripe but all the time ableism is accepted it will carry on because there’s no consequences and people can.
If in future generations people don’t accept it then younger people will be calling out their parents and grandparents for historic ableist comments but time doesn’t change people or their beliefs it’s only tolerance that changes over the years and what we put up with.