Loved and adored by the British, Prince Philip dies at the age of 99 in his home at Windsor Castle.
However, its roots are not in Great Britain, but also in Germany.
London - Born in Greece, raised in Scottish boarding school, died in England.
Prince Philip was one of the high-ranking aristocrats in Europe, whose roots and family tree are known to few today.
Prince Philip died: Many German branches in the family tree
Because in the widely branched family tree of Prince Philip there are also many German relatives.
His birth name for the house of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg shows that his ancestors came from Germany.
The Prince Consort of the British Queen Elizabeth II was born in 1921 on the Greek island of Corfu as Prince of Greece and Denmark.
His father was Andrew of Greece.
His mother, Princess Alice von Battenberg, came from the family of the Grand Dukes of Hesse.
She was the great granddaughter of the British Queen Victoria.
Prince Philip: He attended the German elite school Salem
Prince Philip himself then spent parts of his childhood and youth in Germany, as he temporarily attended the Salem elite school in southern Germany.
Here at the latest he was able to sharpen his German, which he then quickly spoke fluently.
Prince Philip in Australia: "Do you still throw spears?"
Language in general was to become one of his trademarks, for Prince Philip did not always act as elegantly as the world might have expected of the Queen's husband.
Funny, laid back, sometimes even inappropriate, and below the belt, Prince Philip said what he thought.
"Do you still throw spears?"
, He asked the Aboriginal tribal leader on a state visit to Australia in 2002. He once asked the Prince of Jamaica:
"Aren't most of them descended from the pirates?"
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Not always “so amused”: Queen Elisabteh II and her Prince Philip
© Steve Parsons / dpa
Queen Elizabeth II: Not always amused about Prince Philips' language escapades
The Queen was not always so amused about such capers, but of course also as much a royal professional as to let it be seen.
She probably suspected not infrequently that her husband simply liked to provoke a little, which you could easily see in his mischievous smile, which he could keep into old age.
He didn't take himself too seriously either, and
when asked about
his sometimes relaxed tongue, he once said:
"I've never had any particular inhibitions when it came to talking about topics that I have no idea about."