RIP Prince Philip – the Last Royal Climate Sceptic

Mr Wilmar said he introduced himself to the 90-year-old Duke at a reception and suggested he put wind turbines on royal property.

‘He said that they were absolutely useless, completely reliant on subsidies and an absolute disgrace. I was surprised by his very frank views,’ he said.

When Mr Wilmar tried to argue that onshore turbines are one of the most cost-effective forms of renewable energy, the Duke apparently replied: ‘You don’t believe in fairy tales do you?’

Mr Wilmar added: ‘He said they would never work as they need back-up capacity.’

And the Duke apparently told him: ‘You stay away from my estate young man.’

The late Duke of Edinburgh was no fool. One way he showed this was in his attitude to the climate change scare: unlike his idiot son Charles or his brainwashed grandsons William and Harry, he knew it to be a load of old nonsense.

Though convention dictates that Royals are supposed to be discreet on contentious political issues, there were occasions when Prince Philip simply couldn’t contain himself.

One such was the time ten years ago when the Duke was evidently infuriated by an encounter with a wind turbine operator. The man’s name was Esbjorn Wilmar, managing director of Infinergy, one of the companies blighting Britain’s seascape with offshore windturbines. Wilmar impertinently suggested that the Duke install wind turbines on his royal property. The Duke, as the Mail reported, gave him short shrift.

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