ROYAL VISIT PRESS RELEASE
Tuesday, March 18, 1975
HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE PHILIP, DUKE OF EDINBURGH
A Brief Biography
His Royal Highness the Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, was born
at Corfu on June 10, 1921, son of Prince Andrew of Greece. When he renounced
bis royal title in 1947 and became a British subject, it was under his
mother's family name, Mountbatten.
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The Prince went to Britain at an early age to be educated. From
a preparatory school, Cheam, he continued on to Gordonstoun.
In January 1940, he went to sea as a midshipman in the battleship
Ramillies and after serving in the cruisers Kent and Shropshire, was appointed
at the end of the year to the battleship Valiant in the Mediterranean Fleet.
A few months later during World War II, come the battle of Cape Matapan,
where he was in charge of a section of searchlight control in Valiant.
After returning to Britain to qualify as a sub-lieutenant, Prince
Promoted lieutenant in June
Philip was appointed to the destroyer Wallace.
1942, he became Wallace's First Lieutenant in the following October.
In July 1943, he took part in the Sicily landings when Wallace
covered the Canadian beachhead. In 1944, he was appointed First Lieutenant
in Whelp, and took part in the war against Japan.
/In July 1947
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