Whether Hannah Jackson thought about what the Duke of Edinburgh might say when she chose to wear a zip-up dress to be presented to him, we shall never know.
Hannah Jackson waits to meet the Duke of Edinburgh in Bromley Photo: Cascade
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Gordon Rayner, and Donna Bowater
1:19PM BST 16 May 2012
But she can hardly have been surprised when the 90-year-old decided to pass comment as he spotted her eye-catching bright red number during a Diamond Jubilee visit to Bromley in Kent.
With a twinkle in his eye, he turned to a police officer who was also being presented to him and said: "I would get arrested if I unzipped that dress!"
The policeman burst out laughing at the comment, described as "one of his classics" by an onlooker. "He just made a passing remark to the police officer. The officer was trying to contain his laughter so I asked him what was so funny."
Ms Jackson, 25, who was wearing a dress with full-length zip at the front, is schools and transport co-ordinator for Bromley Council.
"I'm not sure really what to say.
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"We were talking about the event generally, it was quite a busy day and I was in the formal line up," she said. Asked about the Duke's comment, she said: "I'm not sure really what to say," and directed inquiries to council press officers.
The Duke was accompanying the Queen as her Diamond Jubilee tour of the country took her to Bromley on Tuesday, where the couple were met by more than 6,000 flag-waving school children.
During the same walkabout he asked a pensioner who was wrapped in a foil blanket: "Are they going to put you in the oven next?"
Barbara Dubery, 89, had been given the foil wrap by council officials who were worried she would get cold as she waited in a wheelchair.
Her daughter Pam Shaw said: "It made her day."
The Queen, who was dressed in a baby blue wool crepe dress and a white, lavender and baby blue boucle tweed coat, drank tea with couples celebrating their diamond wedding anniversaries this year.
The Duke, who has always had an eye for the ladies, has made a string of politically-uncorrect comments to women over the years.
Two years ago, when a female Sea Cadet told him she worked in a nightclub, he said: "Is it a strip club?"
In 1984, he was presented with a figurine by a woman in Kenya and asked: "You are a woman, aren't you?"
At the end of the tour the Queen was presented with a specially commissioned carriage clock from Paynes Jewellers on behalf of the Bromley traders.
Prince Philip was on good form and joked with the crowds. He regularly claims the headlines on Royal occasions with choice words.
Earlier this year, he asked a 60-year-old man how many people he had knocked over on his mobility scooter.
