Actually, that sounds like something Prince Phillip would say. “Lookit the wee pickaninny.” There was a hilarious article several years back of all the awkward remarks he’d made in the course of his travels around the old Empire nations . . . He’s a hoot.
When I lived in the UK, Prince Philip actually told some exchange students going to Asia, ‘don’t stay too long, you might come back with slitty eyes’ (paraphrased, but close to accurate.....not kidding)