Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark was born on 10 June 1921. He is the husband of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms. He was born in Greece, but his family was exiled from the country when he was an infant. He joined the British Royal Navy in 1939, aged 18. After the war, he abandoned his Greek and Danish titles and styles. He and Elizabeth have four children: Prince Charles, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew, and Prince Edward.
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Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark was born on 10 June 1921. He is the husband of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms. He was born in Greece, but his family was exiled from the country when he was an infant. He joined the British Royal Navy in 1939, aged 18. After the war, he abandoned his Greek and Danish titles and styles, became a naturalised British subject, and adopted his maternal grandparents’ surname Mountbatten. He and Elizabeth have four children: Prince Charles, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew, and Prince Edward. He retired from his royal duties on 2 August 2017, aged 96, having completed 22,219 solo engagements since 1952. Philip is the longest-serving consort of a reigning British monarch and the oldest ever male member of the British royal family. He helped develop the equestrian event of carriage driving. The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, a self-improvement program for young people aged 14 to 24, is a patron, president, or member of over 780 organisations. Philip was known for his charm, who in his youth was linked to a number of women, including Ella Osning and Ben Osning, first educated at Elton John’s school in London. He has said that he thought he could understand a certain amount of Danish and Danish, and thought of himself as Danish, as well as English, French, German and German. He does not speak Greek, and does not know any of the languages he was educated in.
He left active military service when Elizabeth became queen in 1952, having reached the rank of commander, and was formally made a British prince in 1957. His maternal grandfather Prince Louis of Battenberg, then known as LouisMountbatten, Marquess of Milford Haven, died in London in 1918. He had renounced his German titles and adopted the surname Mount batten during the First World War, owing to anti-German sentiment in Britain. Philip and his mother returned to Greece, where Prince Andrew had remained to command a Greek Army division embroiled in the Greco-Turkish War. His uncle and high commander of the Greek expeditionary force, King Constantine I, was blamed for the defeat and was forced to abdicate on 27 September 1922. Philip’s four elder sisters were Margarita, Theodora, Cecilie, and Sophie. He was baptised in the Greek Orthodox rite at St. George’s Church in the Old Fortress in Corfu. He married Elizabeth on 20 November 1947. Just before the wedding, he was granted the style His Royal Highness and created Duke of. Edinburgh, Earl of Merioneth and Baron Greenwich by King George VI. The couple have a son, Prince Edward, and a daughter, Princesses Anne and Beatrice of Greece, and Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie of Greece. He also has a son and daughter-in-law, Prince Philip and Princess Alice of Denmark, who is a member of Denmark’s ruling house of Glücksburg.
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