{"id":2064,"date":"2002-06-07T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-06-07T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/06\/07\/2002-06-07-prince-philip-lambasted-in-uk-press-for-remark-during-temple-visit\/"},"modified":"2002-06-07T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-06-07T12:00:00","slug":"2002-06-07-prince-philip-lambasted-in-uk-press-for-remark-during-temple-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/06\/07\/2002-06-07-prince-philip-lambasted-in-uk-press-for-remark-during-temple-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Prince Philip Lambasted in UK Press for Remark During Temple Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.dailyrecord.co.uk\/news\/page.cfm?objectid=11933116&#038;method=full&#038;siteid=89488\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>LONDON, ENGLAND, June 7, 2002: The UK press article entitled &#8220;Joke of Edinburgh&#8221; sarcastically recounts the Queen&#8217;s husband&#8217;s gaffe during their visit to a Hindu temple yesterday: &#8220;Prince Philip put his foot in it yet again yesterday when he asked four Tamil high priests: &#8216;Are you Tigers?&#8217; The Hindu leaders had to give the daft duke a lesson about Sri Lankan militant group the Tamil Tigers, who are behind several terrorist attacks. One told him: &#8216;No we are priests. We are not associated with violence.&#8217; Philip&#8217;s latest blunder came as he joined the Queen for a visit to the Highgate Hill Murugan Temple in north London. It was the first time the monarch has visited a Hindu temple in Britain. High priests lit candles and blessed their royal visitors in the Sanskrit language. Luckily, Philip&#8217;s daft comment was met with laughter. Later, one of the priests said: &#8216;We weren&#8217;t offended. He was just joking.&#8217; Earlier, the Queen and Duke were decorated with garlands. Before the colorful visit, the Queen started her day at a bus depot in Willesden, north London. She met drivers and thanked them for helping to keep the capital moving during the weekend Jubilee celebrations.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE LONDON, ENGLAND, June 7, 2002: The UK press article entitled &#8220;Joke of Edinburgh&#8221; sarcastically recounts the Queen&#8217;s,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}