This little fellow is actually our Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, 1922.
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🇬🇷 HRH was born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, 10 June 1921, in Mon Repos, Corfu, Kingdom of Greece.
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▪️ He is the only son & fifth & final child of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark & Princess Alice of Battenberg.
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▪️ His father Prince Andrew was in command an army division embroiled in the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922). The war went badly for Greece, & the Turks made large gains. On 22 September 1922, Philip’s uncle, King Constantine I, was forced to abdicate & the new military government arrested Prince Andrew, along with others. The commander of the army, General Georgios Hatzianestis, & five senior politicians were executed.
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▪️ Prince Andrew’s life was believed to be in danger, & Alice was under surveillance. In December, a revolutionary court banished Prince Andrew from Greece for life. The British naval vessel HMS Calypso evacuated Prince Andrew’s family, with Philip carried to safety in a cot made from a fruit box.
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▪️ Philip’s family went to France, where they settled in the Paris suburb of Saint-Cloud in a house lent to them by his wealthy aunt, Princess George of Greece and Denmark.
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▪️Because Philip left Greece as a baby, he does not speak Greek. In 1992, he said that he “could understand a certain amount”.
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