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Prince Philip, [[Duke of Edinburgh]], (June 10, 1921 - April 9, 2021) born as Prince Philip of [[Greece]] and [[Denmark]]), was the husband and royal consort of Queen [[Elizabeth II]] of the [[United Kingdom]]. He was born in Greece and was a prince of the Greek royal family. Evacuated to Britain after a revolutionary [[coup d'état]] in his homeland, he became a naval cadet and served in the [[Royal Navy]] during the [[Second World War]], earning a [[Mention in Despatches]] for his actions during the [[Battle of Cape Matapan]]. In 1947 he renounced his Greek and Danish titles and became a British citizen before marrying Princess Elizabeth, who became queen in 1952 upon the death of her father, King [[George VI]]. Just prior to the marriage, he was given the title of Duke of Edinburgh, and thereafter styled as ''His Royal Highness''. In 1957, he was further elevated to the rank of Prince of the United Kingdom.
Prince Philip, [[Duke of Edinburgh]] (June 10, 1921 - April 9, 2021), born as Prince Philip of [[Greece]] and [[Denmark]], was the husband and royal consort of Queen [[Elizabeth II]] of the [[United Kingdom]]. He was born in Greece and was a prince of the Greek royal family. Evacuated to Britain after a revolutionary [[coup d'état]] in his homeland, he became a naval cadet and served in the [[Royal Navy]] during the [[Second World War]], earning a [[Mention in Despatches]] for his actions during the [[Battle of Cape Matapan]]. In 1947 he renounced his Greek and Danish titles and became a British citizen before marrying Princess Elizabeth, who became queen in 1952 upon the death of her father, King [[George VI]]. Just prior to the marriage, he was given the title of Duke of Edinburgh, and thereafter styled as ''His Royal Highness''. In 1957, he was further elevated to the rank of Prince of the United Kingdom.
Prince Philip cultivated a gruff and sometimes tactless persona, and affected to be impatient of court protocol. This lack of [[political correctness]]<ref>Moody, John (August 3, 2017). [https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/08/03/prince-philip-grandfather-political-incorrectness.html Prince Philip, the grandfather of political incorrectness]. ''Fox News''. Retrieved August 3, 2017.</ref> led him to be mocked by some in the [[liberal]] [[media]], though others admired his directness and robust [[humor]].
Prince Philip cultivated a gruff and sometimes tactless persona, and affected to be impatient of court protocol. This lack of [[political correctness]]<ref>Moody, John (August 3, 2017). [https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/08/03/prince-philip-grandfather-political-incorrectness.html Prince Philip, the grandfather of political incorrectness]. ''Fox News''. Retrieved August 3, 2017.</ref> led him to be mocked by some in the [[liberal]] [[media]], though others admired his directness and robust [[humor]].
==Early Life==
Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark was born on June 10, 1921, at the villa of Mon Repos on the island of [[Corfu]] in [[Greece]]. His father was Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, a member of the House of Glücksberg (the royal family of [[Denmark]]) and the younger brother of the ruling king of [[Greece]], Constantine I; his mother was Princess Alice of Battenberg, member of a branch of the German House of Hesse-Darmstadt and a great-granddaughter of [[Queen Victoria]]. Alice's father and younger brothers had, prior to Philip's birth, become naturalized British subjects, serving in the [[Royal Navy]] and anglicizing their family name to "Mountbatten" due to anti-German sentiment during [[World War I]], giving the young child some influential British connections. At his birth, Philip (the couple's fifth and final child, and their only son) was sixth in line to succeed to the Greek throne.
At the time of Philip's birth, Greece was embroiled in a war with [[Turkey]] that had resulted from nationalist conflicts, and over the next year suffered serious losses to the Turks. In September 1922, a revolution broke out that forced King Constantine I, discredited by the progress of the war, to abdicate, and Prince Andrew, who had been in command of a Greek division, was arrested. A few months later, a revolutionary court banished him from the country for life, and his family was evacuated by ship, with Philip carried on board in a cot made from a fruit box. Philip had little personal connection with the Greek nation after this point; he had only a limited understanding of the Greek language during his life, and said later that he considered himself primarily Danish.
The exiled family settled outside [[Paris]], where Philip lived until 1930, when he was sent to Britain to attend school under the guardianship of his Mountbatten relatives. During this time, he suffered much turbulence among his immediate family. His parents were by now estranged, with Philip moving to Monte Carlo in [[Monaco]] and spending most of the rest of his life there, while his mother, Princess Alice, was diagnosed with [[schizophrenia]] and placed in an asylum in [[Switzerland]]. Meanwhile, in a short span of time, Philip's four older sisters--Margarita, Theodora, Cecilie, and Sophie--were married to German princes and relocated to [[Germany]]. Cecilie and her husband, Prince George Donatus of Hesse, were members of the [[Nazi Party]]; they and three of their four children were killed in a plane crash in 1937. His other sisters' husbands were Party members as well, and would serve in the German Army during World War II.
Thanks to the influence of his sister Theodora's husband, Berthold, Margrave of Baden, Philip began attending the elite German boarding school Schule Schloss Salem in 1933, spending two terms there before transferring to Gordonstoun School in Moray, [[Scotland]] (a move stemming partly from the increasing anti-Jewish persecution in Germany). During these years, seeing very little of his parents, he was closest to his uncle and guardian, Louis Mountbatten.
== Death ==
== Death ==