What Spike Milligan said about Prince Charles?

He famously described Prince Charles – a longtime fan – as “a little grovelling bastard” on live television. He followed it up with a fax to the Prince commenting: “I suppose a knighthood is out of the question?” In fact he was honoured last year.

What does it say on Spike Milligan’s gravestone?

The famous epitaph on Spike Milligan’s gravestone, “I told you I was ill”, has been added to , at the end of a bitter feud between the ex-Goon’s family members. The comedian died in 2002, aged 83, and was buried at St Thomas’s Church in Winchelsea, East Sussex.

Did Spike Milligan get a knighthood?

THERE was much mirth at St James’s Palace yesterday when the comedian Spike Milligan, 82, received an honorary knighthood from one of his most enthusiastic fans, the Prince of Wales.

What nationality is Spike Milligan?

Irish
Spike Milligan/Nationality
Spike Milligan, byname of Terence Alan Patrick Sean Milligan, (born April 16, 1918, Ahmadnagar, India—died Feb. 27, 2002, Rye, East Sussex, Eng.), Irish writer and comedian who led the comic troupe featured on the 1950s British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) radio hit The Goon Show.

What did Spike Milligan say about the Prince of Wales?

Spike Milligan’s funny acceptance speech for his lifetime achievement award at the British Comedy Awards 1994. He refers to the Prince of Wales as a grovelling bastard.

Where did Spike Milligan live most of his life?

Spike Milligan [1918-2002] was born in India, the son of a highly mobile British military officer and spent his childhood in various places in the Far East. In his lifetime he found fame as actor / comedian / director / playwright / poet / author but is most famous as one of the original ‘Goons’.

Why did Spike Milligan want to kill Peter Sellers?

In 1952, the year in which he married his Italian first wife, June Marlow, Milligan snatched a potato knife and walked through Peter Sellers’ plate glass front door. Covered in blood, and seemingly in a trance, he screamed: “I have come to kill Peter Sellers.” He was diagnosed as suffering from paranoid delusions.

How old was Spike Milligan when he left Goon?

The 76-year-old former Goon had the contemporary crop of comedy talent who attended in hysterics with a typically anarchic acceptance speech that started off with the words, ”I was going to say about bloody time!”