Biografia

As a great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria, he was in the line of succession to the British throne. At birth, he was 103rd in line, and by the time of his death in 2021 he had fallen to around 700th in line.

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.

Born on the dining-room table of his parents' house, Mon Repos at 10:00 AM.

He was born a Greek prince and had no surname until he gave up his princely titles in 1947. He had to choose a surname for himself, and decided to use Mountbatten (an anglicized version of Battenberg) after his maternal uncle Louis Mountbatten, whom Philip had always viewed as a father-figure.

Was the first President of World Wildlife Fund - UK (WWF) from its formation in 1961 to 1982.

[to an Australian Aborigine] Do you still throw spears at each other?

British women can't cook.

[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.

The man who invented the red carpet needed his head examined.

[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.