Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh passed away aged 99 on Friday 9 April 2021. His was a life of extraordinary events and circumstances and of outstanding heroism during his time with his beloved Royal Navy. It wouldn’t be overstating the issue to say that the Senior Service was the moulding force that took a young refugee Greek Royal and tempered and shaped him into the remarkable man he would become.

Born on Corfu in 1921 to Prince Andrew of Greece and Princess Alice of Battenberg, the young Philip was born into the lower echelons of the Greek Royal family but the early 1920s were a troubled time for Greece and on 27 September 1922 the new Greek military Government swept into power and banished the Royal Family of King Constantine I. Within days the young Philip and his entire f

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