Prince Philip

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Birthday:

10 June 1921, Villa of Mon Repos, Corfu, Greece

Birth Name:

Philippos Andreou of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderberg-Glücksburg Prince of Greece and Denmark

Height:

183 cm

Prince Phillip was born on 10 June 1921 as a Prince of Greece and Denmark. His family was deposed and he lived in France and finally went to boarding school in Gordonstoun in Scotland. Eventually he sent his boys there. When he was 18 he met 13 year old Princess (later Queen) Elizabeth, his third cousin from their descent from Queen Victoria, his second cousin once removed from their descent from King Christian IX of Denmark and fourth cousin once removed from their descent from King George III. They fell in love, but her father King George VI did not want them to get married right away. Before they became engaged he renounced his hereditary royal title and adopted the surname of his uncle Louis Mountbatten. They were engaged in 1947 and married on November 20th of that year. Before they married he was created His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, but was not given the title of Prince until 1957.Almost a year after their wedding they had their first child, a boy, Charles Phillip Arthur George. In 1950 they had a daughter, Anne. They were followed by Andrew and Edward. After the death of his father in law in 1952 his wife became Queen Elizabeth II and he had to give up the Navy to help her being that he was now a royal consort. He has been active with services and takes on a lot of public engagements for his wife.In the late 1970s he became a grandfather when his daughter Anne had two children, a boy called Peter and a girl named Zara. His eldest son Charles had a son William in 1982 and second son Henry in 1984. His second son Andrew had a daughter Beatrice in 1989 and second daughter Eugenie in 1991. His third son Edward was created the Earl Wessex just before his marriage to Sophie Rhys-Jones; they have two children, Lady Louise Windsor and James Mountbatten-Windsor (Viscount Severn). Show less «

[to an Australian Aborigine] Do you still throw spears at each other?

British women can't cook.

[at the 1986 World Wildlife Fund conference] If it has four legs and is not a chair, has wings and is not an aeroplane, or swims and is not ...Show more »

[at the 1986 World Wildlife Fund conference] If it has four legs and is not a chair, has wings and is not an aeroplane, or swims and is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it. Show less «

The man who invented the red carpet needed his head examined.

[on the U.S. Apollo program] It seems to me that it's the best way of wasting money that I know of. I don't think investments on the moon pa...Show more »

[on the U.S. Apollo program] It seems to me that it's the best way of wasting money that I know of. I don't think investments on the moon pay a very high dividend. Show less «

[in 1981, in reference to an economic recession] Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemploye...Show more »

[in 1981, in reference to an economic recession] Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed. Show less «

[to a group of British students in China] If you stay here much longer, you'll all be slitty-eyed.

[In a 1966 conversation with the matron of a hospital while on a tour of the Caribbean] You have mosquitoes. I have the press.

I just wonder what it would be like to be reincarnated in an animal whose species had been so reduced in numbers than it was in danger of ex...Show more »

I just wonder what it would be like to be reincarnated in an animal whose species had been so reduced in numbers than it was in danger of extinction. What would be its feelings toward the human species whose population explosion had denied it somewhere to exist . . . I must confess that I am tempted to ask for reincarnation as a particularly deadly virus. Show less «

[to a Briton in Budapest, Hungary] You can't have been here that long - you haven't got a pot belly.

[to an inhabitant of the Cayman Islands] Aren't most of you descended from pirates?

[to a group of deaf children standing next to a Jamaican steel drum band] Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf.

A gun is no more dangerous than a cricket bat in the hands of a madman.

[after accepting a gift from a Kenyan woman] You are a woman, aren't you?

[on a visit to Lockerbie in 1993 to a man who lived in a road where eleven people had been killed by wreckage from the Pan Am jumbo jet] Peo...Show more »

[on a visit to Lockerbie in 1993 to a man who lived in a road where eleven people had been killed by wreckage from the Pan Am jumbo jet] People usually say that after a fire it is water damage that is the worst. We are still trying to dry out Windsor Castle. Show less «

[asked of a driving instructor in Scotland] How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?

[to a British student in Papua New Guinea] You managed not to get eaten then?

[to a blind, wheelchair-bound woman who was accompanied by her guide dog] Do you know they're now producing eating dogs for the anorexics?

[of a fuse box, whilst on a tour of a factory in Edinburgh, Scotland] It looks as if it was put in by an Indian.

[to a Mr. Patel--a common Indian surname--at a reception for 400 British Indian businessmen at Buckingham Palace] There's a lot of your fami...Show more »

[to a Mr. Patel--a common Indian surname--at a reception for 400 British Indian businessmen at Buckingham Palace] There's a lot of your family in tonight. Show less «

[when informed that a student was going to help out in Romania for six months, he asked if the student was going to help the Romanian orphan...Show more »

[when informed that a student was going to help out in Romania for six months, he asked if the student was going to help the Romanian orphans and was told that he was not] Ah good, there's so many over there you feel they breed them just to put in orphanages. Show less «

[to Barack Obama after being told that Obama had met with the Chinese and Russian ambassadors along with David Cameron] How can you tell the...Show more »

[to Barack Obama after being told that Obama had met with the Chinese and Russian ambassadors along with David Cameron] How can you tell the difference between them? Show less «

[to a 13-year-old aspiring astronaut, who was wishing to fly the NOVA rocket] Well, you'll never fly in it, you're too fat to be an astronau...Show more »

[to a 13-year-old aspiring astronaut, who was wishing to fly the NOVA rocket] Well, you'll never fly in it, you're too fat to be an astronaut. Show less «

[on learning that his children would be named Windsor, not Mountbatten] I'm just a bloody amoeba.

[on inaugurating a display, Canada 1969] I declare this thing open, whatever it is.

When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.

[to an industrial association, during a national production lull] Gentlemen, I think it is time we pulled our fingers out.

[in 2011, approaching his 90th birthday] Bits are beginning to drop off.