OBITUARY TO PRINCE PHILIP, DUKE OF EDINBURGH

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OBITUARY TO PRINCE PHILIP, DUKE OF EDINBURGH

What does the article say about his

- family

- religion

- schooling and higher education

- military career and participation in WWII

- naturalization as a British citizen

- measures before his marriage

- his duties as Queen's consort

- his hobbies

- his gaffes and questionable remarks

The most famous family on earth is mourning the loss of its patriarch.  

Prince Philip, the husband of British monarch Queen Elizabeth II, has died, Buckingham Palace has announced. He was 99.  

The Duke of Edinburgh -- who married then-Princess Elizabeth in 1947 -- was the longest-serving consort in British history.  

Childhood and exile 

Philip's life was dramatic from the outset. The nephew of Greece's King Constantine I, the Prince of Greece and Denmark was born in 1921 on a villa on the Greek island of Corfu. He was baptized in the Greek Orthodox rite.  

He was forced into exile just 18 months later, when the Greek monarchy was overthrown by a military revolt. His family's experience shaped Philip's later desire to modernize the British Royalty, in the hope they would seem more relevant to the Queen's subjects.  

He was taken on board HMS Calypso, the British cruiser given the secret mission to take his family to safety, sleeping in a crib made out of an old fruit box.  

Stateless and -- by royal standards -- poor, Philip's family spent the next few years traveling between the homes of European relatives, as the continent descended into the political and economic upheaval that ultimately led to World War II.  

In 1935, Greece voted to reinstate its monarchy, but Philip's father Andrew resisted pressure to push his son into the Greek military service. Instead, Philip remained at Gordonstoun, the school in Scotland where he would later send his own sons, including Prince Charles. It was here he began preparing for training to join the British Royal Navy.  

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