Prince Philip timeline: a look back at the Duke of Edinburgh s life and career
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Prince Philip: A timeline of his 99-year life
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June 10, 1921: Prince Philip, the only son and fifth child of Prince Andrew of Greece and Princess Alice of Battenberg, is born in Corfu. He was styled Prince of Greece and Denmark.
1922: After a coup, Prince Andrew is banished from Greece and Prince Philip s uncle, King George V, orders a Royal Navy ship to collect them. The young Prince was carried to safety in a cot made from an orange box. The family relocates to Paris.
Baby Philip pictured in 1922
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1928: Prince Philip moved to England to live with his Mountbatten relatives and attends Cheam school in Surrey.
1931: By the age of ten, Philip was separated from every member of his immediate family. His mother had been committed to a psychiatric unit and his father moved to the south of France.