RIP Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh
Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh and consort to Queen Elizabeth II, has died aged 99.
Born on June 10, 1921 in Greece, the Duke of Edinburgh was just months away from celebrating his 100th birthday.
RIP Prince Philip. 10th June 1921 - 9th April 2021
+114 The Duke of Edinburgh, patron of the Britain-Australia Society, presents Kylie Minogue with the Britain-Australia Society Award for 2016 during a private audience with the singer in the White Drawing Room at Windsor Castle in April 2017
Prince Philip pranking The Queen by dressing as a Palace Guard
No thats for real Toot.
Prince Philip looked good with a beard I thought.
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+12 During the early days of his public life in Britain, the Duke of Edinburgh's nickname - waspishly repeated by Private Eye - was 'Phil the Greek'.
The last photograph of Philip with the Queen was in November 2020, where the Duke and Queen looked at their homemade card, given to them by their great-grandchildren Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis for their 73rd wedding anniversary.
You are right Celia, apparently it was all about bees.
Saluting batteries will fire 41 rounds at one round every minute for 40 minutes at Cardiff Castle, Edinburgh Castle and Hillsborough Castle in Belfast and in Gibraltar.
In ACTION!
'Two torpedoes shot past our port side... then enemy planes sent five bombs raining down': Prince Philip's heroic naval battles in his own words
On his 90th birthday in 2011, the Queen gave her husband a very special, and rather poignant, gift - she appointed him Lord High Admiral of the Navy - a title dating back to the 14th century.
Prince Philip - who has died at the age of 99 - was highly-decorated during his distinguished military career - which he gave up in 1953 when the Queen ascended the throne.
Such a fractured childhood.
Philip was born the only son and fifth and final child of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and Princess Alice of Battenberg.
Shortly after Philip's birth, his maternal grandfather Prince Louis of Battenberg died in London. Louis was a naturalised British subject who, after a career in the Royal Navy, had renounced his German titles and adopted the surname Mountbatten during the First World War, owing to anti-German sentiment in Britain. After visiting London for his grandfather's memorial service, Philip and his mother returned to Greece, where Prince Andrew had remained to command a Greek Army division embroiled in the Greco-Turkish War. The war went badly for Greece, and the Turks made large gains. Philip's uncle and high commander of the Greek expeditionary force, King Constantine I, was blamed for the defeat and was forced to abdicate on 27 September 1922. The new military government arrested Prince Andrew, along with others. and executed in the Trial of the Six. Prince Andrew's life was also believed to be in danger, and Princess Alice was under surveillance. Finally in December, a revolutionary court banished Prince Andrew from Greece, for life. The British naval vessel HMS Calypso evacuated Prince Andrew's family, with Philip carried to safety in a cot made from a fruit box. Philip's family went to France. Philip would spend the first few years of his childhood with his family in exile in France. In 1930, when Philip was nine, his mother suffered a nervous breakdown.
Philip's family in 1928. Top row, left to right: Cecile and Sophie. Front row, left to right: Margarita, Philip, mother Alice, father Andrew and Theodora.
Prince Philip was a prince without a home or a kingdom, and his family were living in relative poverty after their banishment from Greece. While Philip had been taken in by his British relatives, the Mountbattens, when he was seven years old, his four sisters were married to Germans, three of whom had links to the Nazi party. His mother was diagnosed with schizophrenia and placed in an asylum. Philip’s father died in Monaco of a sudden heart attack in 1944. Two years before his graduation in from Gordonstoun School in Scotland in 1939, Philip’s pregnant sister Cecile, her husband and two young sons were killed in a plane crash en route to a funeral in London.
Yes I thought it very sad that one of his sisters [Cecile] died in a plane crash during WWII.
Also I have wondered how true it was about his mother, because she was deaf I think it was a case of getting the poor lady put to one side, I never liked the sound of his father from the things I have read.
Where Prince Philip was born on the island of Curfu Greece lovely setting.
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Australia's Parliament House marks Prince Philip's death with 41-gun salute. RAAF tribute.
Viewers switched off their TVs in droves after broadcasters aired blanket coverage of Prince Philip’s death, audience figures revealed on Saturday, and the BBC received so many complaints it opened a dedicated complaints form on its website.
BBC One and BBC Two cleared their schedules of Friday night staples including EastEnders, Gardeners’ World and the final of MasterChef to simulcast pre-recorded tributes from the Duke of Edinburgh’s children.
TV viewers were not pleased. BBC One, which is traditionally the channel that Britons turn on at moments of national significance, was down 6% on the previous week, according to analysis of viewing figures by Deadline. For BBC Two the decision was disastrous – it lost two-thirds of its audience, with only an average of 340,000 people tuning in at any time between 7pm and 11pm. ITV suffered a similar drop after it ditched its Friday night schedule to broadcast tributes to the duke.
The highest rated programme on Friday, with 4.2m viewers, was Gogglebox on Channel 4.
A tribute to Britain's Prince Philip is projected onto a large screen at Piccadilly Circus in London, after the announcement of the duke's death.