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Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Overview

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark 10 June 1921) is the husband of Elizabeth II. He is the United Kingdom's longest-serving consort and the oldest serving spouse of a reigning British monarch.

A member of the Danish-German House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Prince Philip was born into the Greek royal family

Greek Royal Family

The Greek Royal Family was a branch of the House of Glücksburg that reigned in Greece from 1863 to 1924 and again from 1935 to 1973. Its first monarch was George I. He and his successors styled themselves "Kings of the Hellenes"...

, but his family was exiled from Greece when he was a child.

Quotations

It is an old cliche to say that the future is in the hands of the young. This is no longer true. The quality of life to be enjoyed or the existence to be survived by our children and future generations is in our hands now.

The World Wildlife Fund Congress, London, (1970)

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

About to disembark on state visit to Brazil, November 1968. (quoted in Andrew Duncan, The Reality of Monarchy)

You have mosquitoes. I have the Press.

In a conversation with the matron of a hospital while on a tour of the Caribbean, 1966. (quoted in Andrew Duncan, The Reality of Monarchy)

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.

On the U.S. Apollo program, press conference in Sao Paulo, Brazil, November 1968. (quoted in Andrew Duncan, The Reality of Monarchy)

How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?

Said to a driving instructor in Scotland|Scotland, he asked;