The two first met when Olga was only 12 years old and got married four years later. Philip’s grandmother Olga Constantinovna of Russia was born on September 3rd, 1851 in Pavlovsk, Russian Empire and was a member of the Romanov dynasty. He was the King of Greece for 40 years from 1863 to 1913. Philip’s grandfather George I of Greece was born on December 24th, 1845 in Copenhagen, the Kingdom of Denmark. In 1967, Princess Alice lived at Buckingham Palace in London where she died two years later. He died of heart failure at the age of 62 in Monte Carlo, Monaco.

In 1939, Prince Andrew was estranged from his wife and saw neither of his kids. Besides Philip, the couple had four daughters Princess Margarita(1905-1981), Princess Theodora(1906–1969), Princess Cecilie (1911-1937), and Princess Sophie (1914-2001). Princess Alice of Battenberg was born on February 25th, 1885, in Berkshire, UK. In 1902, he met his future wife Prince Alice while staying in London and the two got married only a year after. Philip’s father, Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark was born on February 2nd, 1882, in Athens and was the seventh child in the family.

Parents Prince Andrew and Princess Alice (Parents of Prince Philip) At the age of 21, Prince Philip became the youngest first lieutenant of HMS Wallace, one of the Revenge-class super-dreadnought battleships. It is a well-known fact that Philip’s sister Cecille and her husband were members of the Nazi Party before the war and that his two other brothers-in-law were German SS officers. He served as a member of the British forces during the Second World War. In 1939, Philip attended the Royal Naval College in the port of Dartmouth where he later met his wife, the future Queen of the United Kingdom. The same year he was sent to Germany to attend a boarding school but left for Scotland after two terms. By the year 1933, all of Philip’s sisters married German princes and moved to Germany while his mother was placed in an asylum due to schizophrenia. Philip began his education at The Elms school in Paris and was sent to his maternal grandmother, Victoria Mountbatten, to attend Cheam School in the UK at the age of 9. It is known that Prince Philip was carried in a fruit box all the way from Greece to France to be kept safe. In December 1922, Prince Andrew was banished from Greece for life by a revolutionary court, thus forcing his family to evacuate to France. Constantine I and Philip’s father were arrested, while Princess Alice and her entire family had to live under constant surveillance. His uncle Constantine I, the King of Greece at that time, was forced to abdicate when the war was over in 1922.

The prince was born during the Greco-Turkish War and his very first years of childhood were not the calmest ones. Philip was the youngest child and the only son of Princess Alice of Battenberg and Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark. Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark was born on June 10th, 1921, in Mon Repos villa on the island of Corfu, Kingdom of Greece at that time. Today, the Treemily team wants to pay tribute to the Duke of Edinburgh and with the help of Family Tree Maker tell you more about his family’s past and future generations. Prince Philip was the longest-serving consort in British history but there are many other things His Royal Highness will be remembered for. He passed away peacefully at Windsor Castle at the age of 99. On April 9th, 2021, Buckingham Palace announced the death of Prince Philip, the husband of Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom at the time.

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