Their young son Prince Philip, meanwhile, who was purportedly carried in an orange crate onto the British Royal Navy gunboat that had been sent to Corfu to rescue the family, was subsequently dispatched to the care of Lord Mountbatten-though there was something of a tug of war between the prince’s British and German relatives: He was sent first to a school in Germany established by the German Jewish educator Kurt Hahn, and thence to Gordonstoun, the spartan Scottish boarding school created by Hahn after he had fled Nazi Germany. If you couldn't think of a word in one language, you tended to go off in another.” Communication with his mother was primarily in sign language, as she became almost completely deaf after contracting German measles at the age of four.
Then it went into German, on occasion, because we had German cousins. I could understand a certain amount of it. “If anything, I've thought of myself as Scandinavian,” Prince Philip told Fiammetta Rocco, one of several biographers of his complicated family tree. His mother was Princess Alice of Battenberg, a fascinating and troubled woman who in later life founded a nursing order of Greek Orthodox nuns (and was posthumously honored by Israel for having sheltered a Jewish family in Athens during the Second World War). The prince’s father, Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, was the seventh child and fourth son of King George I of Greece and Olga Constantinovna of Russia. The couple, who shared a great-great-grandmother in Queen Victoria, had been brought together by the prince’s wily uncle Lord Mountbatten of Burma, the last Viceroy of India and his nephew’s guardian since the boy was eight, when the young prince’s parents had been driven into exile from Greece. Princess Elizabeth to then-Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, R.N., the former Prince Philip of Greece. He made his debut in Vogue in 1947 when the magazine heralded the engagement of then-H.R.H. The prince was born on June 10 in 1921 on the kitchen table of Mon Repos, his family’s estate on Corfu. He has drive, and opinion, and courage, and humor robust enough for Mississippi riverboats or the Royal Navy.”
Prince Philip, noted Vogue in 1961, “Seems more completely the ideal of the American hero than most American heroes. The news was confirmed by representatives of the Royal Family earlier today, adding that the announcement was made “with deep sorrow” and that the prince passed away peacefully this morning at Windsor Castle.
Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, has died at the age of 99 after a lifetime of service-and controversy.
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