Philip Duke of Edinburgh

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Philip Duke of Edinburgh


Born
in Mon Repos, Corfu, Greece
June 10, 1921

Died
April 09, 2021


Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark on 10 June 1921) was the husband of Queen Elizabeth II. He was the longest-serving, oldest-ever spouse of a reigning British monarch, and the longest-lived male member of the British royal family.

A member of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Prince Philip was born in Greece into the Greek and Danish royal families, but his family was exiled from Greece when he was a baby. After being educated in France, England, Germany, and Scotland, he joined the British Royal Navy in 1939, at the age of 18. From July 1939, he began corresponding with the 13-year-old Princess Elizabeth (his third cousin through Queen Victoria and the elder daughter and heir pre
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Sandringham

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A Question of Balance

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A Windsor Correspondence be...

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Competition Carriage Driving

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30 Years On and Off the Box...

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Men, machines, and sacred cows

liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1984 — 3 editions
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Driving and Judging Dressage

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Down to Earth: Speeches and...

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The Environmental Revolutio...

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“If a cricketer, for instance, suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, which he could do very easily, I mean, are you going to ban cricket bats?”
Prince Philip

“A horse which stops dead just before a jump and thus propels its rider into a graceful arc provides a splendid excuse for general merriment.”
H.R.H. Prince Philip

“If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.”
Prince Philip