HRH Sir Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh
✶ 10 June 1921 at the Palace of Mon Repos, Korfu
✟ 17 April 2021 at Windsor Castle, United Kingdom
Appointed
The Royal Palace of Stockholm 23 June 1954
motto
God is my help
shield
Painted 1989 by Bengt Olof Kälde.
other awards
King Carl XVI Gustaf’s Jubilee Commemorative Medal I 1996
Biography
Son of Prince Andréas of Greece and Denmark and Princess Alice of Battenberg. Naturalized in Great Britain with his mother’s English family name Mountbatten 1947.
Married Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain, in 1947. Received the title Prince of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 1957.
Received the order before King Gustaf VI Adolf’s state visit to Great Britain.
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