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Philippe Leopold Louis Marie Wiki Biography

Born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark on the 10th June 1921, in Mon Repos, Corfu, Kingdom of Greece, he is the Prince of the United Kingdom, and Duke of Edinburgh thanks to his marriage to Queen Elizabeth II, which has been active since 1947.

Have you ever wondered how rich Prince Philip is, as of early 2017? According to authoritative sources it has been estimated that Philip’s net worth is as high as $30 million, acquired through his involvement in various business projects, but also he has published a number of books, the sales of which have also added to his wealth.

Prince Philip Net Worth $30 Million

Since day one, Philip’s life has been quite interesting. He is the son of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and Princess Alice of Battenberg, the fifth child of his parents, but the only son, his sisters were Margarita, Theodora, Cecilie, and Sophie. Coming from a Royal family had its good and bad sides; he and his family were exiled from Greece when he was still a baby, allegedly being carried in a cot made from a fruit box. They settled in Paris in a house owned by Princess George of Greece and Denmark, who was his aunt. Once he was old enough for schooling, Philip first entered American School in Paris, and then in 1928 he changed not just school but country, as he moved to the United Kingdom to attend Cheam School. During this time, Philip was living with Victoria Mountbatten, Dowager Marchioness of Milford Haven – his maternal grandmother – in her residence at Kensington Palace, but also lived with his uncle George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven, at Lynden Manor in Bray, Berkshire. His life went into further distress when his mother was diagnosed with schizophrenia and put into an asylum; meantime his sisters married German noblemen.

He wasn’t in contact with his mother for the rest of his young years, as he was then sent to Schule Schloss Salem in Germany, which was owned by the family of one of his brothers –in-law Berthold, Margrave of Baden, and therefore his education was free. However, the rise of Nazism in Germany saw Philip move from Salem to Gordonstoun in Scotland, but the following year he left and joined the Royal Navy, graduating from the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth as the best cadet on course. When the Second World War broke out, he fought on the British side, and steadily progressed in ranks, reaching lieutenant ranks in the 16th July 1942, and then in October became first lieutenant of HMS Wallace. He finally left the Navy in 1952, when his wife became Queen Elizabeth.

Back in 1934 he first met Elizabeth, and they started corresponding in 1939, maintaining through letters during the war, when Philip was at sea. Then in 1946, Philip asked for the hand of the young Princess from King George VI, and he accepted the request. The two married the following year and since then, Philip has become one of the most influential people of the UK’s royal family. He is patron of numerous organizations, according to some reports he has been involved in over 800, such as World Wildlife Fund, The Work Foundation, and International Equestrian Federation, among many others.

Of course Philip has no private life, but has been a staunch supporter of The Queen, and respected by the British public for that. They have three sons and a daughter.



Full Name Sofía of Spain
Net Worth $30 Million
Date Of Birth June 10, 1921
Place Of Birth Mon Repos, Corfu, Kingdom of Greece
Height 1.83 m
Profession Royal Knight of the Garter
Education Britannia Royal Naval College, Gordonstoun
Nationality British, Greek
Spouse Elizabeth II
Children Charles, Prince of Wales, Anne, Princess Royal, Prince Andrew, Duke of York, Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex
Parents Princess Alice of Battenberg, Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark
Siblings Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark, Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark, Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark, Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark
IMDB http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0697611/
Awards Royal Victorian Chain
Trademark
1 Putting his foot in it.
Quote
1 [to a 13-year-old aspiring astronaut, who was wishing to fly the NOVA rocket] Well, you’ll never fly in it, you’re too fat to be an astronaut.
2 [to Barack Obama after being told that Obama had met with the Chinese and Russian ambassadors along with David Cameron] How can you tell the difference between them?
3 [when informed that a student was going to help out in Romania for six months, he asked if the student was going to help the Romanian orphans and was told that he was not] Ah good, there’s so many over there you feel they breed them just to put in orphanages.
4 [to a Mr. Patel–a common Indian surname–at a reception for 400 British Indian businessmen at Buckingham Palace] There’s a lot of your family in tonight.
5 [of a fuse box, whilst on a tour of a factory in Edinburgh, Scotland] It looks as if it was put in by an Indian.
6 [to a blind, wheelchair-bound woman who was accompanied by her guide dog] Do you know they’re now producing eating dogs for the anorexics?
7 [to a British student in Papua New Guinea] You managed not to get eaten then?
8 [asked of a driving instructor in Scotland] How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?
9 [on a visit to Lockerbie in 1993 to a man who lived in a road where eleven people had been killed by wreckage from the Pan Am jumbo jet] People usually say that after a fire it is water damage that is the worst. We are still trying to dry out Windsor Castle.
10 [after accepting a gift from a Kenyan woman] You are a woman, aren’t you?
11 A gun is no more dangerous than a cricket bat in the hands of a madman.
12 [to a group of deaf children standing next to a Jamaican steel drum band] Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf.
13 [to an inhabitant of the Cayman Islands] Aren’t most of you descended from pirates?
14 [to a Briton in Budapest, Hungary] You can’t have been here that long – you haven’t got a pot belly.
15 I just wonder what it would be like to be reincarnated in an animal whose species had been so reduced in numbers than it was in danger of extinction. What would be its feelings toward the human species whose population explosion had denied it somewhere to exist . . . I must confess that I am tempted to ask for reincarnation as a particularly deadly virus.
16 [In a 1966 conversation with the matron of a hospital while on a tour of the Caribbean] You have mosquitoes. I have the press.
17 [to a group of British students in China] If you stay here much longer, you’ll all be slitty-eyed.
18 [in 1981, in reference to an economic recession] Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.
19 [on the U.S. Apollo program] It seems to me that it’s the best way of wasting money that I know of. I don’t think investments on the moon pay a very high dividend.
20 The man who invented the red carpet needed his head examined.
21 [at the 1986 World Wildlife Fund conference] If it has four legs and is not a chair, has wings and is not an aeroplane, or swims and is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.
22 British women can’t cook.
23 [to an Australian Aborigine] Do you still throw spears at each other?
Fact
1 Father-in-law of Sophie Countess of Wessex, and Camilla Parker-Bowles. Former father-in-law of Princess Diana, Sarah Ferguson, and Mark Phillips.
2 Great-grandfather of Prince George of Cambridge and Princess Charlotte of Cambridge.
3 Likes to drive a Hackney green taxi through London.
4 Has several cups of coffee each morning.
5 Sleeps in his own private suite.
6 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.
7 He was awarded the AC (Companion of the Order of Australia) in the 1988 Queen’s Birthday Honours List.
8 Briefly hospitalised with a chest infection in April 2008.
9 Played by American actor James Cromwell in The Queen (2006).
10 As a great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria, he is positioned at 496th in the line of succession to the British Throne.
11 Became a naturalised British subject in 1947.
12 Became the husband of a Princess in 1947, and so of a Queen in 1952, but did not become a Prince of the United Kingdom until 1957.
13 The Greek Royal Family have no surname. When he gave up his title of Prince of Greece in 1947 he had to choose what to call himself. His Uncle Louis Mountbatten suggested Mountbatten, which is the anglicised version of his mother’s name before marriage.
14 Among the other conditions Philip had to accept to in order to marry Elizabeth was that their children would not bear his name. By Letters Patent in 1960, Elizabeth gave her descendants surname Mountbatten-Windsor, except for those with the title “HRH” – which is a title used by all of her children and male-line grandchildren.
15 Born on the dining-room table of his parents’ house, Mon Repos.
16 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.
17 Was appointed a Knight of the Garter by his father-in-law, King George VI.
18 Brother-in-law of Princess Margaret.
19 Son-in-law of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.
20 Grandfather of Peter Phillips, Zara Phillips, Prince William, Prince Harry Windsor, Princess Beatrice, and Princess Eugenie.
21 Father of Prince Charles, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Edward Wessex
22 Created Duke of Edinburgh, Earl of Merioneth and Baron Greenwich on 19 November 1947.
23 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.
24 Admiral of the Fleet, Field Marshal and Marshal of the Royal Air Force since 1953.
25 Is the Duke of Edinburgh, the Earl of Merioneth and the Baron Greenwich.
26 Was the first President of World Wildlife Fund – UK (WWF) from its formation in 1961 to 1982.
27 Prince Philip gained his RAF wings in 1953, his helicopter wings in 1956 and his private pilot’s licence in 1959.
28 In April 1952, his wife made him a Knight of the Thistle.
29 In June 1968, his wife appointed him to the Order of Merit.

Miscellaneous

Title Year Status Character
Elizabeth at 90: A Family Tribute 2016 TV Movie documentary private ciné film by gracious permission of – as HRH The Duke of Edinburgh
Good Neighbors 1978 TV Series a special performance of, in the presence of – 1 episode

Thanks

Title Year Status Character
A Jubilee Tribute to the Queen by the Prince of Wales 2012 TV Movie documentary gracious permission – as HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, film and photographs

Self

Title Year Status Character
When Phillip Met Prince Philip: 60 Years of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award 2016 TV Movie documentary Himself
Britain’s Busiest Airport: Heathrow 2016 TV Series documentary Himself
This Morning 2016 TV Series Himself
Victoria Derbyshire 2016 TV Series Himself
Princes of the Palace 2016 Documentary
Antiques Roadshow 2015 TV Series Himself
Secret History 2015 TV Series documentary Himself
Commonwealth Games 2014 TV Series Himself – Hockey Audience Member / Himself
Our Queen 2013 TV Movie documentary Himself
The Royal Variety Performance 2012 2012 TV Movie Himself
London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Isles of Wonder 2012 TV Special Himself
XXX Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony 2012 TV Movie Himself – Duke of Edinburgh
Edward & George: Two Brothers, One Throne 2012 Documentary Himself
State Opening of Parliament 2012 TV Movie Himself
Queen Elizabeth II: The Diamond Celebration 2012 Himself
Sky News: Afternoon Live 2012 TV Series Himself
Cutty Sark: National Treasure 2012 TV Movie documentary Himself – Patron, The Cutty Sark Trust (as HRH The Duke of Edinburgh)
The Choir: Military Wives 2011 TV Mini-Series documentary Himself
The Royal Wedding 2011 TV Movie Himself
Today 2011 TV Series Himself
The Queen in the UAE 2010 TV Movie Himself
State Opening of Parliament 2010 TV Movie Himself
State Opening of Parliament 2009 TV Movie Himself
The Queen 2008 TV Movie Himself (uncredited)
State Opening of Parliament 2008 TV Movie Himself
Monarchy: The Royal Family at Work 2008 TV Series documentary Himself
The Royal Variety Performance 2007 2007 TV Movie Himself
The Singing Estate 2007 TV Series documentary Himself
The Children’s Party at the Palace 2006 TV Special Himself
The Royal Variety Performance 2005 2005 TV Movie documentary Himself
Windsor Castle: A Royal Year 2005 TV Movie documentary Himself
Reputations 2002 TV Series documentary Himself
Christmas Glory 2000 2000 TV Special documentary Introduction / Reader
Airport 2000 TV Series documentary Himself
ABC 2000: The Millennium 1999 TV Movie documentary
Network First 1997 TV Series documentary Himself
Diana: The Nation’s Farewell 1997 TV Movie Himself
The Richard Dimbleby Lecture 1989 TV Series documentary Himself
World Safari 1986 TV Movie documentary Himself
Bob Hope’s Happy Birthday Homecoming (London Royal Gala) 1985 TV Movie Himself – Audience Member
A Century of Stars: The Story of the Grand Order of Water Rats 1984 TV Movie documentary
The Royal Charity Concert 1980 TV Movie Himself
Jubilee and Beyond 1977 Short Himself
Hello Elisabeth! 1976 TV Movie documentary Himself
Nuova Guinea, l’isola dei cannibali 1974 Documentary Himself
Britain Welcomes the Emperor and Empress of Japan 1973 Documentary short Himself
V.I.P.-Schaukel 1971-1973 TV Series documentary Himself
Chequerboard 1973 TV Series Himself – Subject
A State Visit to Turkey by Queen Elizabeth II 1971 Documentary short Himself
The Country we are Making 1970 TV Movie documentary Himself
Investiture of His Royal Highness Prince Charles as Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester 1969 TV Movie documentary Himself
Royal Family 1969 Documentary Himself
Gekrönte Häupter 1967 TV Series documentary Himself
Britain Welcomes the President of Pakistan 1966 Documentary short Himself
Man Alive 1966 TV Series documentary Himself
ITV Play of the Week 1966 TV Series Himself – introduction
The Royal Tour of the Caribbean 1966 Documentary short Himself
Die Drehscheibe 1965 TV Series Himself
Calgary Jubilee Stampede 1963 Short documentary Himself
Britain Welcomes the President of India 1963 Documentary short Himself
Look at Life: The Key of the Door 1963 Documentary short Himself
The Queen Returns 1963 Short Himself
This Week 1962 TV Series Himself
Sierra Leone Greets the Queen 1962 Documentary short Himself
Royal Children 1961 Documentary short Himself
Queen Elizabeth II in Pakistan 1961 Documentary short Himself
The Queen’s State Visit to Iran 1961 Documentary short Himself
Design for Living 1960 Short Himself
Canoe Rally 1959 TV Movie documentary Himself
New Day 1959 Documentary short Himself
Playing Together 1959 Documentary short Himself
The Sceptre and the Mace 1958 Short documentary Himself
Southward with Prince Philip 1957 Documentary short Himself
Melbourne 1956: Games of the XVI Olympiad 1956 TV Mini-Series Himself
Playing Fields Association: Cricket 1955 Short Himself
A Queen’s World Tour 1954 Documentary Himself
The Queen in Australia 1954 Documentary Himself
The Coronation Concert 1953 TV Movie Himself
A Queen Is Crowned 1953 Documentary Himself – Duke of Edinburgh
Royal Destiny 1953 Documentary short Himself
Royal Journey 1951 Documentary Himself
Playing Fields Association: Football 1951 Documentary short Himself
The Royal Wedding Presents 1948 Documentary Himself

Archive Footage

Title Year Status Character
100 Years of Olympic Glory 1996 TV Movie documentary Himself – Opens Melbourne Games, 1956 (uncredited)
Match of the Seventies 1996 TV Series Himself
The Churchills 1996 TV Mini-Series documentary Himself (uncredited)
Kicking & Screaming 1995 TV Series documentary Himself
Underground 1995 Himself (at funeral of Tito) (uncredited)
The Century of Warfare 1994 TV Mini-Series documentary Himself
Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy 1994 Documentary Himself (handshake with Suharto) (uncredited)
Assignment Special: The Republic of Oz 1993 TV Movie documentary Himself
Memories of 1970-1991 1991 TV Series documentary Himself
The 1940’s: Music, Memories & Milestones 1988 Video documentary Himself
The 1950’s: Music, Memories & Milestones 1988 Video documentary Himself
The 1960’s: Music, Memories & Milestones 1988 Video documentary Himself (addresses film function)
The Speeches of Winston Churchill 1988 Video documentary Himself
Hot Metal 1988 TV Series Himself
The Whistle Blower 1986 Himself – Remembrance Day Service (uncredited)
The Rock ‘n’ Roll Years 1985-1986 TV Series Himself
Summer of ’66 1986 TV Series Himself
A Private Function 1984 Himself (uncredited)
The Compleat Beatles 1982 Video documentary Himself (with the Beatles) (uncredited)
Has Anybody Here Seen Canada? A History of Canadian Movies 1939-1953 1979 TV Movie documentary Himself – Hears ‘God Save the King’ Sung in French (uncredited)
V.I.P.-Schaukel 1978 TV Series documentary Himself
Twenty Five Years 1977 Documentary
The Hecklers 1975 Documentary Himself – with the Queen (uncredited)
Monty Python’s Fliegender Zirkus 1972 TV Series Himself
The Benny Hill Show 1971 TV Series Himself
Passion Potion 1971 Himself (uncredited)
Lord Mountbatten: A Man for the Century 1968 TV Mini-Series documentary Himself
The Benny Hill Show 1968 TV Series Himself
NBC White Paper 1966 TV Series documentary Himself – with Jomo Kenyatta
Four Days in November 1964 Documentary Himself
La rabbia 1963 Documentary Himself
The Queen’s Guards 1961 Himself – in Trooping the Colour (uncredited)
Project XX 1960 TV Series documentary Himself – British Royalty
Royal River 1959 Documentary short Himself
Zwischen Glück und Krone 1959 Documentary Himself
Revolting 2017 TV Series Himself
Good Morning Britain 2016 TV Series Himself
Have I Got News for You 2006-2016 TV Series Himself
Mock the Week 2016 TV Series Himself
The Aberfan Young Wives’ Club 2016 TV Movie documentary Himself (uncredited)
Get Shirty 2016 TV Movie documentary Himself (uncredited)
Eamonn and Ruth: How the Other Half Lives 2015-2016 TV Mini-Series documentary Himself
Duels 2016 TV Series documentary Himself
Elizabeth at 90: A Family Tribute 2016 TV Movie documentary Himself
RIP: Comedian Victoria Wood Passes Away at 62 2016 Video short Himself (uncredited)
Our Queen at Ninety 2016 TV Movie documentary Himself
Too Much TV 2016 TV Series Himself – Our Queen at Ninety / Himself – Inside Buckingham Palace
Conspiracy 2015 TV Series documentary Himself – Duke of Edinburgh
Panorama 2014 TV Series documentary Himself
Commonwealth Games 2014 TV Series Himself
Shaun Micallef’s Mad as Hell 2012-2014 TV Series Himself
The Making of The Tunnel 2014 Video documentary short Himself (uncredited)
Imagine 2013 TV Series documentary Himself
One Chance 2013 Himself (uncredited)
London – The Modern Babylon 2012 Documentary Himself / Husband of Queen Elizabeth (as Philip Mountbatten)
South at Six 2012 TV Series Himself
Queen & Country 2012 TV Mini-Series documentary Himself
William at 30 2012 TV Movie documentary Himself (uncredited)
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno 2011-2012 TV Series Himself / Himself – At State Dinner / Himself – On Guinness Tour / …
A Jubilee Tribute to the Queen by the Prince of Wales 2012 TV Movie documentary Himself
Elizabeth: Queen, Wife, Mother 2012 TV Movie documentary Himself
The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II 2012 TV Movie documentary Himself
The Queen and Her Prime Ministers 2012 TV Movie documentary Himself (uncredited)
The Diamond Queen 2012 TV Series documentary Himself
The Talent Show Story 2012 TV Series documentary Himself
Insiders 2011 TV Series Himself
The Queen’s Palaces 2011 TV Mini-Series documentary Himself
Wags of ’66 2011 TV Movie documentary Himself
Unlawful Killing 2011 Documentary Himself – Duke of Edinburgh (uncredited)
The One Show 2011 TV Series Himself
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu 2010 Documentary Himself
Spise med Price 2010 TV Series documentary Himself
The Queen’s Coronation: Behind Palace Doors 2008 TV Movie documentary Himself
British Style Genius 2008 TV Series documentary Himself
The Queen: A Life in Film 2008 Video documentary Himself
Time Team 2008 TV Series documentary Himself
The Queen’s Wedding 2007 TV Movie documentary Himself
Endgame: Blueprint for Global Enslavement 2007 Video documentary Himself
Royal Wedding: June, Judy and Jane 2007 Video documentary short Himself
National Geographic Presents: Mystery of the Romanovs 2007 TV Movie documentary Himself
E! True Hollywood Story 2006 TV Series documentary Himself
Premiere Bond: Opening Nights 2006 Video documentary short Himself
The 60s: The Beatles Decade 2006 TV Series documentary Himself
Doctor Who 2006 TV Series Himself
Who Stole the World Cup? 2006 TV Movie documentary Himself
Die Zweite Republik – Eine unglaubliche Geschichte 2005 TV Series documentary Himself
80s 2005 TV Series documentary Himself
50 Questions of Political Incorrectness 2005 TV Movie documentary Himself
Favouritism 2005 TV Series Himself
Timewatch 2004-2005 TV Series documentary Himself
Forensic Files 2005 TV Series documentary Himself
The Tower 2004 TV Mini-Series documentary Himself – HRH The Duke of Edinburgh
Britain’s Favourite Comedian 2004 TV Series Himself
Churchill 2003 TV Series documentary Himself
Days That Shook the World 2003 TV Series documentary Himself
Everest: Getting to the Bottom of the Mountain 2003 TV Movie documentary Himself (uncredited)
Swimming Upstream 2003 Himself (uncredited)
Royal Deaths and Diseases 2003 TV Mini-Series documentary Himself
A Royal Family 2003 TV Mini-Series documentary Himself
The Jubilee Girl 2002 TV Movie Himself
The Adventure of English 2002 TV Mini-Series documentary Himself (uncredited)
Manchester United: The Official History 1878-2002 2002 Video documentary Himself (uncredited)
The Game of Their Lives 2002 Documentary Himself (uncredited)
The Story of Football 2002 Video documentary Himself – 1953 FA Cup Final, 1958 FA Cup Final, 1963 Centenary Celebration
The King of Communism: The Pomp & Pageantry of Nicolae Ceausescu 2002 TV Movie documentary Himself
Prince of Wales: Kings in Waiting 2000 TV Movie documentary Himself
50 Glorious Years: A Royal Celebration 1999 Video documentary Himself
Nancherrow 1999 TV Series Himself
Cold War 1998 TV Mini-Series documentary Himself
The King and Queen: The War Years 1997 TV Movie Himself
The Story of Bean 1997 TV Special documentary Himself (photo) (uncredited)

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