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" Prince Philip proudly poses with tiger he slaughtered 50 years before Cecil the Lion outrage

21:12, 31 Jul 2015
Updated 21:23, 31 Jul 2015
By Stephen White

The Duke of Edinburgh also killed a crocodile and six mountain sheep on the three-day hunt in 1961 despite protests from British and Indian politicians
Getty Prince Philip with Prince Jagat-Singh (with his foot on tiger's head), the Maharajah of Jaipur, Queen Elizabeth II and the Maharanee of Jaipur during a tiger hunt during the Royal Tour of India on 26th January 1961

Slaughter: Prince Philip (left) and the Queen (centre) following a tiger hunt in India in 1961

Dressed in a safari suit, the Duke of Edinburgh stands next to the 8ft tiger he shot on a three-day hunt.

The Queen looks rather less pleased with herself as she poses with the Maharajah of Jaipur, family and friends in Ranthambhore, India in 1961.

Prince Philip had gone ahead with the hunt, despite protests from British and Indian politicians.

The Duke also shot a crocodile and six mountain sheep on that trip.

Photoshot The Royal Tour of Nepal, hunting at Megauli. The Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip went on a tiger hunt and a rhino shoot at Megauli
Rifles ready: The Queen and Prince Philip also went on a tiger hunt and a rhino shoot at Megauli in Nepal

At the start of the 20th century India was home to 100,000 tigers, but numbers crashed in the years following independence in 1947.

Over the past 30 years Prince Philip has killed many kinds of animals.

Figures compiled from press reports by the anti-bloodsports lobby suggest that in Britain alone he has shot at least 30,000 pheasants.

He has also killed deer, rabbit, hare, wild duck, snipe, woodcock, teal, pigeon and partridge in the UK.

Prince Philip the animal hunter
Number of pheasants Prince Philip is estimated to have shot in the UK
A pheasant runs across the sixth fairway during the second round

30,000

Prince Philip used to shoot wild boar in Germany.

He and Prince Charles are said to have killed 50 in one day.

The Duke frequently invites sporting friends to the Royal Family’s 20,000-acre Norfolk estate at Sandringham.

In 1993, he hit his target of 10,000 pheasants during a seven-week stay when he was out shooting for up to four days a week"

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Queen's role: In a 1961 Royal Tour to Nepal Queen Elizabeth II attended a tiger hunt

King of the hunt: The Prince of Wales - future King Edward VIII - tiger shooting in Nepal, the Indian Tour, 1921

A woman's power: Queen Ratna Rajya Lakshmi Devi, wife of King Mahendra of Nepal, with a tiger she shot in 1960
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/cecil-lion-shocking-pictures-reveal-6158818

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