- As a great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria, he was in the line of succession to the British throne. At birth, he was 103rd in line, and by the time of his death in 2021 he had fallen to around 700th in line.
- Is related to Tsarina Alexandra through his mother's side of the family. Because he has the same DNA passed down from females as Czarina Alexandra and her children, investigators used his DNA to compare with the skeletal remains found in Yekaterinburg--where the remaining Romanov family was executed by Bolshevik soldiers--to determine whether they were the Czarina and her children or not. They also used his DNA to see if Anna Anderson was really Grand Duchess Anastasia.
- Born on the dining-room table of his parents' house, Mon Repos at 10:00 AM.
- He was born a Greek prince and had no surname until he gave up his princely titles in 1947. He had to choose a surname for himself, and decided to use Mountbatten (an anglicized version of Battenberg) after his maternal uncle Louis Mountbatten, whom Philip had always viewed as a father-figure.
- Was the first President of World Wildlife Fund - UK (WWF) from its formation in 1961 to 1982.
- Gave up smoking when he married Princess Elizabeth.
- Is the Duke of Edinburgh, the Earl of Merioneth and the Baron Greenwich.
- He slept in his own private suite and rarely shared a bedroom with the Queen. Traditionally, the upper class in Great Britain always have separate bedrooms. This was not public knowledge until Michael Fagan intruded into the Queen's bedroom in 1982.
- In June 1968, his wife appointed him to the Order of Merit.
- Has several cups of coffee each morning.
- Likes to drive a Hackney green taxi through London.
- He was worshiped as a god by inhabitants of Tanna in the South Pacific.
- Among the conditions Philip had to accept in order to marry Elizabeth was that their children would not bear his family name, Mountbatten, at the insistence of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, Queen Mary, and Winston Churchill, who wished for the royal family to continue being the House of Windsor. In 1960, after Queen Mary and Churchill had died, Elizabeth issued letters patent giving her descendants without royal styles the surname Mountbatten-Windsor, except for those with the title "HRH" - which is a title used by all of her children and male-line grandchildren.
- His DNA were use to match Anna Anderson, to check if she was really the Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov. It did not match Anderson's DNA.
- Prince Philip gained his RAF wings in 1953, his helicopter wings in 1956 and his private pilot's licence in 1959.
- Appointed a Knight of the Garter in 1947, a Knight of the Thistle in 1952, a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire in 1953 and a Member of the Order of Merit in 1968.
- Grandfather of Peter Phillips, Zara Tindall, Prince William of Wales, Prince Harry, Princess Beatrice, and Princess Eugenie.
- Grandson of King George of Greece and Queen Olga. George was the brother of King Frederik VIII, Queen Alexandra (consort of King Edward VII), Czarina Maria Fyodorovna, Prinsesse Thyra, and Prins Valdemar. Olga was the niece of Tsar Alexander II. Philip was fifth in line to the Greek throne when his family had to flee Greece in 1922 after the monarchy was overthrown by a military junta.
- On the day of his wedding to Elizabeth, his father-in-law King George VI made him Duke of Edinburgh and issued letters patent giving him the style "His Royal Highness". Philip was a prince of Greece and Denmark by birth but renounced those titles to marry Elizabeth, making a rare occurrence of someone who was an HRH but not a British prince or princess. Even though he married a British princess and expected future queen, British common law does not make the husband of a British princess a prince, only vice versa. He was made a prince of the United Kingdom by Elizabeth in 1957, after she became queen, allowing him to use the title "prince" before his name.
- Created Duke of Edinburgh, Earl of Merioneth and Baron Greenwich on 19 November 1947.
- Great-grandson of Christian IX.
- In April 1952, his wife made him a Knight of the Thistle.
- Admiral of the Fleet, Field Marshal and Marshal of the Royal Air Force since 1953.
- Son-in-law of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.
- Brother-in-law of Princess Margaret.
- Was appointed a Knight of the Garter by his father-in-law, King George VI.
- Became a naturalised British subject in 1947.
- Great-grandfather of Prince George of Wales and Princess Charlotte of Wales.
- Briefly hospitalised with a chest infection in April 2008.
- He was awarded the AC (Companion of the Order of Australia) in the 1988 Queen's Birthday Honours List.
- Father-in-law of Sophie Duchess of Edinburgh, and Queen Camilla. Former father-in-law of Princess Diana, Sarah Ferguson, and Mark Phillips.
- Son of Princess Alice of Battenberg.
- While he was born in Greece and spent most of his life in England, he had no ethnic Greek or English ancestry.
- Was just two months shy of his big 100th birthday at the time of his death. If he had reached it he would've been the second high-ranking royal of Britain's royal family to do so, after his own mother-in-law, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.
- He was offered the title "The Prince Consort" shortly after Elizabeth became queen, the same title held by Queen Victoria's consort Prince Albert, but declined it.
- Stated his family "broke up" in the early 1930s due to his mother's nervous breakdown and the separation of his parents, and his sisters marrying and relocating to Germany. He was mostly raised by his mother's family, the Mountbattens.
- At the time of his passing, he was undoubtedly the last surviving member of the Greece and Denmark royal family when it was still an active monarchy (it abolished in 1922, the year after Philip was born).
- He was the first royal consort to predecease the monarch since Prince Albert predeceased Queen Victoria in 1861.
- An intellectual, he wrote 13 books. Most of which were concerning his passion for the environment. He also contributed to the forewords of numerous other books.
- He was the longest serving English or British consort in history, serving for 69 years.
- In 1964, he became the first father in the British royal family to be present for the birth of his child when he accompanied Elizabeth for the birth of their fourth and final child, Prince Edward.
- [24 June 2021] Royal Mail (the British post office) issued a set of 4 "In Memoriam" postage stamps in a souvenir sheet as a tribute to Prince Philip. Each stamp stamp shows different a black-and-white photograph of the prince, in chronological order. The face values in order are: 2nd class postage (66p on day of issue); 1st class postage (85p on day of issue); £1.70; and £2.25.
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