Prince philip

Prince Philip once said, 'I can't imagine anything worse. I'm already falling to pieces as it is,' according to royal biographer Gyles Brandreth's new book Philip: The Final Portrait

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Philip, who by 1973 had taken up the sport competitively, representing Britain at several European and World Championships, looked delighted to be back in the driver's seat.

RUMOURS about the wellbeing of the Queen’s husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, have been doing the rounds over the weekend. So where is Prince Philip today? Is he with the Queen?

Prince Philip, who died today at the age of 99, graced the world of sport as a passionate spectator and a determined and capable participant, with a particular love of polo and carriage driving.

Prince Philip began life as more of a refugee than a royal – fleeing Corfu on a warship and sleeping in a temporary cot made from an old orange box.

HE chose England. So it is an irony befitting Shakespeare that the funeral of the Greek-born prince, who became the Duke of Edinburgh and the Queen’s strength and stay, should decide the fate of hi…

Believe it or not, he was not always 99 years old.

​​Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth’s royal romance

“Despite Philip’s British background and his fine war record, George VI was deeply worried about how British opinion…would take to a Greek Prince as the husband of the heiress presumptive,” Time reported. “There was also something about his daughter’s brash young man with his loud, boisterous laugh and his blunt, seagoing manners that irritated the gentle King.”

On April 9, Buckingham Palace announced that Prince Philip died at age 99. Look back at his life in pictures.

Teenage Prince Phillip. How interesting I've never seen any pictures of him this young before. Historical pictures

Prince Phillip is the deuteragonist of Disney's 1959 animated feature film Sleeping Beauty. The son of King Hubert, he is a dashing, wisecracking prince who was betrothed to King Stefan's daughter, Princess Aurora, as a means of uniting their kingdoms. The alliance becomes endangered when Phillip instead falls in love with a "peasant girl" in the forest, unaware that she is actually Aurora, but after discovering they are one and the same, he willingly risks everything he can to save the love…

Remembering the Queen's husband

The Queen, 94, and Prince Philip were poignantly photographed side-by-side at Windsor Castle to mark The Duke's 99th birthday on Wednesday.