What’s the truth about Prince Philip’s life before he met Queen Elizabeth?
For being the longest-serving consort to a British monarch in history, Prince Philip keeps it pretty low-key.
His father was next in line after his brother, King Constantine.
Prince Philip also had four sisters, with whom he shared his early life in Greece.
That makes them third cousins.
However, the move was stressful on Prince Philip’s parents, and the family suffered as a result.
Clearly, Prince Philip had suffered before he met Queen Elizabeth.
Princess Alice was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, and was treated by none other thanSigmund Freud.
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“It’s simply what happened,” he revealed, according toTown & Country.
“The family broke up.
My mother was ill, my sisters were married, my father was in the south of France.”
He added that he simply had to get on with it.
Prince Philip would later adopt the surname of Mountbatten.
The rest is British royal history.
Though little is documented about his time there, a picture inTown & Countryshows him practicing archery with classmates.
After returning to the UK, Prince Philip was sent to a boarding school called Gordonstoun in Scotland.
That number goes up to 12 if you count the child Cecile was eight months pregnant with.
According toCloser Weekly, both were members of the Nazi party, too.
Princess Sophie married Prince Christoph of Hesse in 1930 when she was just 16.
His oldest sister, Princess Margarita, married Prince Gottfried of Hohenlohe-Langenburg in 1931.
That same year, Princess Theodora married her second cousin Berthold, Margrave of Baden.
This meant Prince Philip’s remaining sisters all had ties to Germany before he met Queen Elizabeth.
It is a form of freedom, of being in control of things."
“How high he can jump!”
And how does one seal the deal with a future monarch after that kind of physical display?
By gorging himself on shrimp, obviously.
The future queen was pretty much sold on the spot.
But Princess Elizabeth’s crush on her third cousin ran deep.
They’ve been married ever since, the longest-lasting marriage in the history of the British monarchy.
After finishing at the Royal Naval College, Philip was stationed on theHMS Ramilliesin 1940 in the Indian Ocean.
He was later awarded the Greek War Cross of Valor for his actions.
