If his title of Duke of Edinburgh evoked the mists of Scotland and the name of his family, Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, those of the Baltic, Philip was born under sunnier skies, though less lenient for families. royal.
His name is Philip of Greece when he was born on the island of Corfu on June 10, 1921. His mother, Alice of Battenberg, granddaughter of Queen Victoria, gave birth to her last born on the table of the dining room of the Regency villa where she lives with her four daughters, without heating or electricity, on the Adriatic Sea.
His father, Prince Andrew, is the brother of Constantine of Greece, a Danish-German prince whose family was placed by the European diplomatic game on the Greek throne in the previous century.
Young Prince Philip was baptized according to the Orthodox rite, but his Greek childhood was short-lived.
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