Prince Andrew Of Greece And Denmark And Prince Philip

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Prince andrew of greece and denmark and prince philip. Prince philip and his mother princess alice image. While he had escaped with his life he was still banished. She learned greek when she got engaged to philips father prince andrea of greece and denmark. 2 february os.

November 10 1882 prince andrew of greece queen elizabeth ii s husband prince philip the duke of edinburgh had a mother who was born profoundly deaf and a father who was actively aggressively bisexual. Cecilie was the third child and daughter of prince andrew of greece and denmark and princess alice of battenbergshe was born on 22 june 1911 at the summer estate of the greek royal family at tatoi fifteen kilometres north of athensalthough her given name was cecilie she was known to her family as cecile. Philips four elder sisters were margarita theodora cecilie and sophie. Philips father was prince andrew of greece and denmark 18821944 a younger son of king george i of the hellenes originally prince william of denmark.

20 january 1882 3 december 1944 of the house of schleswig holstein sonderburg gluecksburg was the seventh child and fourth son of king george i of greece and olga constantinovna of russia. He began military training at an early age and was commissioned as an officer in the greek army. Private collection of prince philip duke of edinburgh. On king constantines restoration in 1920 they briefly returned to greece taking up residence on corfu at mon repos inherited by prince andrew on his fathers assassination in 1913.

Prince andrew of greece and denmark greek. He was from birth a prince of both denmark and greece by virtue of his patrilineal descent. They sailed to corfu to gather their children and from there traveled to southern italy. On december 2 andrew was found guilty and on december 3 he met alice on a british cruise liner that would carry him out of greece for good.

A member of the house of gluecksburg the ruling house of denmark he was a prince of both greece and denmark by virtue of his patrilineal descent from george i of greece and christian ix of denmark and he was from birth in the line of succession to both thrones. He was a grandson of christian ix of denmark and father of prince philip duke of edinburgh.