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- Birth namePhilippos Andreou of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderberg-Glücksburg Prince of Greece and Denmark
- Nickname
- Bubbikins
- Height6′ (1.83 m)
- Prince Phillip was born on 10 June 1921 as a Prince of Greece and Denmark. His family was deposed and he lived in France and finally went to boarding school in Gordonstoun in Scotland. Eventually he sent his boys there. When he was 18 he met 13 year old Princess (later Queen) Elizabeth, his third cousin from their descent from Queen Victoria, his second cousin once removed from their descent from King Christian IX of Denmark and fourth cousin once removed from their descent from King George III. They fell in love, but her father King George VI did not want them to get married right away. Before they became engaged he renounced his hereditary royal title and adopted the surname of his uncle Louis Mountbatten. They were engaged in 1947 and married on November 20th of that year. Before they married he was created His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, but was not given the title of Prince until 1957.
Almost a year after their wedding they had their first child, a boy, Charles Phillip Arthur George. In 1950 they had a daughter, Anne. They were followed by Andrew and Edward. After the death of his father in law in 1952 his wife became Queen Elizabeth II and he had to give up the Navy to help her being that he was now a royal consort. He has been active with services and takes on a lot of public engagements for his wife.
In the late 1970s he became a grandfather when his daughter Anne had two children, a boy called Peter and a girl named Zara. His eldest son Charles had a son William in 1982 and second son Henry in 1984. His second son Andrew had a daughter Beatrice in 1989 and second daughter Eugenie in 1991. His third son Edward was created the Earl Wessex just before his marriage to Sophie Rhys-Jones; they have two children, Lady Louise Windsor and James Mountbatten-Windsor (Viscount Severn).- IMDb Mini Biography By: anonymous
- SpouseQueen Elizabeth II(November 20, 1947 - April 9, 2021) (his death, 4 children)
- Children
- Parents
- RelativesPrincess Cecilie(Sibling)Princess Margarita(Sibling)Princess Theodora(Sibling)Princess Sophie(Sibling)Princess Beatrice(Grandchild)Princess Eugenie(Grandchild)Peter Phillips(Grandchild)Zara Tindall(Grandchild)Lady Louise Windsor(Grandchild)James Earl of Wessex(Grandchild)Mia Tindall(Great Grandchild)Victoria Mountbatten(Grandparent)Prince Louis of Battenberg(Grandparent)Queen Louise(Aunt or Uncle)Louis Mountbatten(Aunt or Uncle)David Mountbatten(Cousin)Patricia Mountbatten(Cousin)Pamela Hicks(Cousin)King George of Greece(Grandparent)Queen Olga(Grandparent)King Constantine(Aunt or Uncle)Prince George of Greece and Denmark(Aunt or Uncle)Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark(Aunt or Uncle)King Georgios II(Cousin)Elena of Greece and Denmark(Cousin)King Paul of Greece(Cousin)H.R.H. Prince Peter of Greece(Cousin)Princess Olga Paul of Yugoslavia(Cousin)Princess Marina(Cousin)Prince Michael of Greece(Cousin)Louis IV(Great Grandparent)Grand Duchess Alice(Great Grandparent)Prince Harry(Grandchild)Prince George of Wales(Great Grandchild)Prince William of Wales(Grandchild)Princess Charlotte of Wales(Great Grandchild)Prince Louis of Wales(Great Grandchild)Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor(Great Grandchild)Lilibet Diana Mountbatten-Windsor(Great Grandchild)Christian IX(Great Grandparent)Princess Maria Pavlovna(Cousin)Dmitri Pavlovich Romanov(Cousin)Rainer Prinz von Hessen(Niece or Nephew)Savannah Phillips(Great Grandchild)Isla Elizabeth Philips(Great Grandchild)Lena Elizabeth Tindall(Great Grandchild)Lucas Philip Tindall(Great Grandchild)Sienna Elizabeth Mozzi(Great Grandchild)August Philip Brooksbank(Great Grandchild)
- As a great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria, he was in the line of succession to the British throne. At birth, he was 103rd in line, and by the time of his death in 2021 he had fallen to around 700th in line.
- Is related to Tsarina Alexandra through his mother's side of the family. Because he has the same DNA passed down from females as Czarina Alexandra and her children, investigators used his DNA to compare with the skeletal remains found in Yekaterinburg--where the remaining Romanov family was executed by Bolshevik soldiers--to determine whether they were the Czarina and her children or not. They also used his DNA to see if Anna Anderson was really Grand Duchess Anastasia.
- Born on the dining-room table of his parents' house, Mon Repos at 10:00 AM.
- He was born a Greek prince and had no surname until he gave up his princely titles in 1947. He had to choose a surname for himself, and decided to use Mountbatten (an anglicized version of Battenberg) after his maternal uncle Louis Mountbatten, whom Philip had always viewed as a father-figure.
- Was the first President of World Wildlife Fund - UK (WWF) from its formation in 1961 to 1982.
- [to an Australian Aborigine] Do you still throw spears at each other?
- British women can't cook.
- [at the 1986 World Wildlife Fund conference] If it has four legs and is not a chair, has wings and is not an aeroplane, or swims and is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.
- The man who invented the red carpet needed his head examined.
- [on the U.S. Apollo program] It seems to me that it's the best way of wasting money that I know of. I don't think investments on the moon pay a very high dividend.
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