He was originally named Philippos Andreou Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg.
Before becoming Duke of Edinburgh to marry Queen Elizabeth, he was a prince of Greece and Denmark.
Prince Philip, who died aged 99 last week, had an unusual start to life when his mother gave birth to him on a dining table in their villa on the Greek island of Corfu in 1921.
Born Philippos Andreou Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg on June 10, 1921, he was a European royal in his own right before he became Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, and married Queen Elizabeth II in 1947.
Philip was the fifth child and only son of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and Princess Alice of Battenberg, and his maternal grandmother, Princess Victoria of Hesse, Queen Victoria s grandmother, making him and Elizabeth II third cousins.