Prince Philip: 3 Royal Visits To India And A Tiger Controversy

The UK's longest-serving royal consort joined the Queen in India in 1961, 1983 and 1997 - during which he made quite an impression with his sense of humour, which often also got him into some controversy.

Britain's Prince Philip - the Duke of Edinburgh, the husband of Queen Elizabeth II, who passed away at the age of 99 on Friday morning, made three memorable royal visits to India in his long years of accompanying the 94-year-old monarch during her nearly 69-year reign. The UK's longest-serving royal consort joined the Queen in India in 1961, 1983 and 1997 - during which he made quite an impression with his sense of humour, which often also got him into some controversy. During his 1961 visit to India, he was pictured with the Queen and the Maharaja and Maharani of Jaipur with a dead eight-foot tiger he had shot while on a hunt. It happened to be the same year he became president of the World Wildlife Fund UK. He also shot a crocodile and mountain sheep on that trip but it was the photograph of the tiger that caused ripples around the world.