In exactly one month, on 10 June 2010, Prince Philip is turning 89. The people of Yaohnanen on the remote island of Tanna in the South Pacific think he's their messiah; alas, his Royal Highness is not even a passably naughty boy.
No doubt that sagacious sayings, such as 'Do you know they have eating dogs for the anorexic now?', which Prince Philip addressed to a blind woman with a guide dog in 2002, and, rather less charmingly 'In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, to contribute something to solving overpopulation' (uttered in 1988), have convinced the Tanna, that he is The One (story from the Telegraph).
The Tanna people are also the subject of the entertaining, if not stringently scientific documentary Meet the Natives (2007), which partly reverses the relationship between anthropologist and subject in that it records the reactions of a group of Tanna men to the British, in Britain. Here's an excerpt:
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