Why Prince Philip's Will Won't Be Public Knowledge for at Least 90 Years (msn.com)
Queen Elizabeth II may be Britain’s longest-reigning monarch, but her husband, Prince Philip, was also there every step of the way. The royal served as the oldest male member and longest-serving consort of a British sovereign in history.
Philip was born to Prince Andrew of Greece and Princess Alice of Battenberg on the Greek island of Corfu on June 10, 1921. His family was exiled from Greece when he was a baby and they relocated to France where he began his early years of education. In 1928, he was sent to the United Kingdom where he attended Cheam Preparatory School in Berkshire. Later, he went to Gordonstoun School in Scotland before he left in 1939 and finished his education as a cadet at the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth.
While Philip was a navy cadet at the Royal Navy College, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth took their children, Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret, on a tour of the college in 1939. An 18-year-old Philip met his third cousin Princess Elizabeth, who was 13 at the time. The pair began to exchange love letters and their engagement was formally announced in 1947.
At that time, Philip became a naturalized British subject and changed his surname from his father’s Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg to his mother’s surname of Mountbatten.
