The prince who wouldn’t be king
Friday April 16 2021
Messages and floral tributes are pictured outside Windsor Castle in Windsor, west of London, following the April 9 death of Britain’s Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. AFP PHOTO
By DOUGLAS KIEREINI
Summary
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Earl of Merioneth and Baron Greenwich, also called Philip Mountbatten, original name Philip, Prince of Greece and Denmark, was born on June 10,1921, in Corfu, Greece.
His father was Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark (1882-1944), a younger son of King George I of the Hellenes (originally Prince William of Denmark) while his mother was Princess Alice (1885-1969).
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He was proud of all his children, but there was an element of tough love in the Duke of Edinburgh’s approach to parenthood.
Philip and Elizabeth produced an heir to the throne within a year of marrying and Charles Philip Arthur George was born on the evening of November 14 1948 in the Buhl Room at Buckingham Palace.
For the first time since the 18th century, there was no government minister present at the birth of a future heir to the throne.
Charles followed in his father’s footsteps by attending Cheam school in Berkshire and then Gordonstoun in Scotland.
But whereas Philip flourished amid Gordonstoun’s outdoors-focused regime, the Prince of Wales hated it and was bullied by the other boys.