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- He changed his family name from the German Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg to Mountbatten – an anglicised version of his mother’s surname, Battenberg.
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Elizabeth's accession to the throne brought up the question of the name of the royal house, as Elizabeth would typically have taken Philip's last name upon marriage. Lord Mountbatten advocated the name House of Mountbatten. Philip suggested House of Edinburgh after his ducal title.
Jun 7, 2021 · Prince Philip was born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, but when he married the Queen and became a British subject, he elected to use the surname of his maternal grandparents: Mountbatten.
May 9, 2019 · The royal family's last name was disputed when Queen Elizabeth II became the reigning monarch. Prince Philip insisted she take on his surname (Mountbatten), but British officials and the...
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Jul 9, 2024 · Prince Philip, duke of Edinburgh, waving goodbye as he and Queen Elizabeth II return to their ship from Home Island, Cocos Islands, 1954. (more) On February 28, 1947, Philip became a British subject, renouncing his right to the Greek and Danish thrones and taking his mother’s surname, Mountbatten.
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- Prince Philip was the husband of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and the father of Charles, who became king in 2022. Philip was also known...
- Prince Philip was born into the Greek and Danish royal families and gained greater fame when he married his distant cousin Elizabeth (later Queen E...
- Reared chiefly in Great Britain, Philip was educated at Gordonstoun School, near Elgin, Moray, Scotland, and at the Royal Naval College in Dartmout...
- Philip was born to Prince Andrew, a son of King George I of Greece, and Princess Alice. When he was an infant, his family was exiled, and it later...
- Prince Philip did not have the title of king because of British royal tradition whereby a man marrying into the royal family does not assume the ma...
The late Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, consort of Queen Elizabeth II, adopted the surname of Mountbatten from his mother's family in 1947, being a member of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg by patrilineal descent.
Apr 10, 2021 · Alice, who was the daughter of Prince Louis of Battenberg (whose family name was anglicised to Mountbatten during World War One), had been born profoundly deaf.
