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Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, [1] later Philip Mountbatten; 10 June 1921 [fn 1] – 9 April 2021), was the husband of Queen Elizabeth II. As such, he was the consort of the British monarch from his wife's accession on 6 February 1952 until his death in 2021, making him the longest-serving royal ...
The late Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, consort of Queen Elizabeth II, adopted the surname of Mountbatten from his mother's family in 1947, although he was a member of the House of Glücksburg by patrilineal descent.
Mountbatten-Windsor is the personal surname used by some of the male-line descendants of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Under a declaration made in Privy Council in 1960, the name Mountbatten-Windsor applies to male-line descendants of Queen Elizabeth II without royal styles and titles. [1]
Next on the royal family tree is Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, the first-born son of Prince Charles and his late wife, Diana, Princess of Wales. By virtue of his being male, from the moment ...
Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip made a change to the tradition of royal surnames, opting for their direct descendants to use the name Mountbatten-Windsor.
The Grand Duke married for a second time to Princess Eleonore of Solms-Hohensolms-Lich (1871–1937), and had two sons: Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse who married Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark, sister of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and had issue, and Prince Louis of Hesse and by Rhine.
Constantine II is also the younger brother of Queen Sofia of Spain and was a cousin to the late Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Paul was the youngest son of Sophia of Prussia, herself a daughter ...
Prince of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg: King George III 1738–1820 r. 1760–1820: Charlotte 1744–1818 of Mecklenburg-Strelitz: Frederick William II of Prussia 1744–1797 King of Prussia: Prince Edward 1739–1767 Duke of York and Albany: Princess Elizabeth Caroline 1741–1759 of Great Britain: Prince William ...