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HRH The Prince Philip

Prince Philip
Duke of Edinburgh (more)
Prince Philip March 2015.jpg
Prince Philip in March 2015
Consort of the British monarch
Tenure 6 February 1952 – present
Born (1921-06-10) 10 June 1921 (age 96)
Mon Repos, Corfu, Greece
Spouse Elizabeth II (m. 1947)
Issue
Detail
Full name
Philip Mountbatten
House Glücksburg
Father Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark
Mother Princess Alice of Battenberg
Signature Prince Philip's signature
Military career
Allegiance  United Kingdom
Service/branch  Royal Navy
 British Army
 Royal Air Force
Years of service 1939–1952
(end of active service)
Rank Admiral of the Fleet
Field Marshal
Marshal of the Royal Air Force
Commands held HMS Magpie
Battles/wars

Second World War

Awards Mentioned in dispatches
Croix de Guerre with Palm
Greek War Cross
Full name
Philip Mountbatten

Second World War

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, 10 June 1921) is the husband and consort of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms.

A member of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Philip was born into the Greek and Danish royal families. He was born in Greece, but his family was exiled from the country when he was an infant. After being educated in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom, he joined the British Royal Navy in 1939, aged 18. From July 1939, he began corresponding with the 13-year-old Princess Elizabeth (his third cousin through Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and second cousin once removed through King Christian IX of Denmark), whom he had first met in 1934. During the Second World War he served with the Mediterranean and Pacific fleets.

After the war, Philip was granted permission by King George VI to marry Elizabeth. Before the official announcement of their engagement in July 1947, he abandoned his Greek and Danish royal titles and became a naturalised British subject, adopting the surname Mountbatten from his maternal grandparents. He married Elizabeth on 20 November 1947. Just before the wedding, he was created Baron Greenwich, Earl of Merioneth and Duke of Edinburgh. Philip left active military service when Elizabeth became monarch in 1952, having reached the rank of commander, and was formally made a British prince in 1957.


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