- The husband of the Queen of England, Philip Elisabet II of Edinburgh, died at the age of 99. He married the British Queen 72 years ago and has been an absolute prince for the past 69 years. Father of four children, grandfather of eight grandchildren and great-grandfather of nine grandchildren, Philip of Edinburgh was dean of the European monarchies.
The youngest son of Prince Andrew of Greece and Princess Alicia of Battenberg was born on 10 June 1921 in Korfu (Greece), as a Greek prince, but was always British. His uncle Luis Mountbatten, the famous viceroy of India, killed by the IRA in 1979, was the one who took care of the child and somehow educated him and used him to fulfill his dream of controlling the crown of England.
He was not the first husband of a Queen of England, as a century earlier he had married Queen Victoria of Albert of Saxony. Feliper's uncle, Mounbatten, had always wanted to reach Buckingham, and that got him through his nephew, whom he supported, and according to the chronicles, he didn't have much work to convince Princess Elizabeth to fall in love.
It has always been said that he perfectly accepted the role of second actor adapted to Buckingham's film. It has been considered a typical English Gentlemantzi. In the chronicles of the yellow press it has always been said that he enjoyed hunting, horses, dogs, Scottish castles and women, and that he had hidden and stable couples.