Sunday Times editor apologises for front page article saying public ‘secretly enjoyed’ Prince Philip offensive ‘gaffe’
Tom Ambrose
The editor of The Sunday Times has apologised after a front page story claimed the British public had “secretly enjoyed” an offensive comment made by Prince Philip.
In an article after the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral, the paper’s chief foreign correspondent Christina Lamb wrote that he was “an often crotchety figure, offending people with gaffes about slitty eyes, even if we secretly rather enjoyed them”.
The line, which referred to comments Philip made on a trip to China in 1986, did not appear in the online version of the story.