Prince Philip and the Jews: The inside story If Greek nationalists hadn’t revolted against their royal family in 1922, a blond-haired prince might one day have become king, ruling over a country with an ancient Sephardic community known to its Jews as Salonika. Instead, the baby Prince Philip of Greece was sent into exile, reportedly carried in an orange crate. And after a meteoric rise through the ranks of the British Royal Navy, the impoverished outsider married the future Queen Elizabeth II, standing at the helm of an empire containing almost a quarter of a million Jews in the early 1950s.