Discovering Prince Philip's Ancestry
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- čas přidán 28. 06. 2024
- Prince Philip lived a life of almost 100 years. He is most famously known for being the husband to the late Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II. But unlike many of the consorts we know today, Philip was a Prince in his own rights and you can find royal ancestors throughout his whole family tree. Not only is he a descendant of British Kings and Queens, he was also closely related to the Russian Tsars. In an earlier video I already covered his immediate family, meaning his parents and four sisters. So in today's video I will focus more on his grandparents and great grandparents as we explore their lives and accomplishments.
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Prince Philip had more blue blood than the Queen herself, an impeccable lineage. Both him, Queen Sofía of Spain and Queen Anne Marie of Greece were the last consorts that were 100% royal and in Sofía and Philip's cases, their lineages are better than their spouses.
@kaprey Not really. Queen Elizabeth's mother came from aristocracy, nor royalty and Queen Mary came from the Tecks, again, not royalty. If you compare their lineages, Philip's is more royal.
@kaprey the Bowes Lyon were not royals. Maybe descended from royalty bit were not considered royalty. They weren't even styled as Highness. And yes, Queen Mary's mother was a Princess. Now, go read about her father.
@kaprey you confuse aristocracy with royalty but ok. Bye!
@kaprey was Elizabeth Bowes Lyon a Princess? Was she called HRH? Wow.
Ummm king Juan Carlos has a really amazing family tree, almost everyone in her tree are Bourbons or Habsburg's so i don't think he wasn't less than Sofia, he was more french, Spanish or even Italian and Sofia was more German
Media wants to concentrate on his sister's married to Nazis but there was so much more to his family. Thank you for pointing this out.
There were only 2 BANKS I'm Germany b4 ww2, Nazis were an obscure 7th place party, so where did Nazi money come from?Both bankers were Jewish.
His sister's husband who were nazis were also great grandsonz to queen victoria
I mean more to my
...rhis does not bring peace. We have enough problems in the world. Nobody learns anything...wit always mentioning the neesis ...
Always Phillip fan. Best decision Queen Elizabeth ever made. He was a highly competent naval officer & gave up a good career to marry Elizabeth.
He had to give up career after his wife became the Queen.
@@samshah7628 Yes. He had to give up his naval career so that he could live in Buckingham Palace with nothing useful to do. He tried to initate a modernization of the royal household but at every step his ideas were nixed by the so-called Queen Mother".
They need to stop with the incest. He was her 3rd cousin
@@sarahblasdell5261 Some people need to stop with the incest comments when they don't know what they're talking about. A marriage of third-cousins is not considered to be incest in any jurisdiction on Earth. First-cousin marriages are permitted in in the UK and every European country but no member of a royal family has married a first or second cousin in generations. Canada, Mexico, Japan and many other nations permit first-cousin marriage. In the USA 19 states permit it outright and 7 others permit it with some conditions. Are you outraged about that? Or is it only royalty that triggers you?
@@sarahblasdell5261 so? Hardly related
George I of the Hellenes was also brother to Alexandra, Queen Consort of Great Britain.
Prince Phillip was an amazing man and more royal then anyone knew and lived a very hard life god rest his soul
His mother was an amazing woman , in what she endured
He had more blue blood than the Queen herself.
A harder life than any toilet attendent!
His mother gave up royalty to become a nun, he endured incredible hardship and he supported his wife through her reign ❤
Definitivamente el príncipe Felipe, era de más sangre azul, qué la misma reina, porque la madre de la reina Isabel, era aristócrata, más no era noble.
Good on you, for you’re making these videos, with the background of history. It’s so good to know about people with the viewpoint of the facts than just gossip and hearsay. Thanks for your work.
Thank you so much. Your research and presentation is very much appreciated. I have always been interested in genealogy and really enjoy learning the past of the royal family.
Looks like Prince Philip had a lot royal connections.
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A mix of Danish, Russian, English and German descendents. From Phillips family tree we can see how all the northern European royals were related, Phillip was Queen Elizabeths cousin. It's only in recent times that royals marry commoners
Philip and his wife Elizabeth II actually have more Danish royal blood than they do British.
@@michaelverbakel7632 all depends what you mean by British. If you mean English then as a number of Germanic tribes many from the Jutland Peninsular there is very little difference in DNA with those from Northern Germany and Denmark. If you mean original British Celtic tribes then probably true but please remember they are both directly descended from King Henry VII whose Tudor origins are Celtic Wales. The racial mix of the British Isles is very complicated and just using the term British doesn't mean anything at all.
@@michaelverbakel7632 the queen’s mother was Scottish so I am not sure how she has more Danish blood than British.
Uncle! not cousin.
Philip's father Andrew, was the first cousin of king George V equally of Czar Nicolas the last Czar. Queen Alexandra was Andrew's father ,George I of Greece, sister and so was Dagmar the mother of the last Czar. That makes his son Prince Philip the duke of Edinburgh, second cousin to Edward and Albert- king George vi, the queen Elisabeth's father. So he's an uncle not a cousin.
He was king Paul's first cousin therefore king Constantine, queen Sofia of Spain, Princes Irene of Greece are second cousins of king Charles, Anne, Edward and Andrew. And so is crown Prince Alexander of Serbia, as well as through the grandma Olga the other Prince Alexander of Serbia. and late deposed king Michael of Rumania through his mother Helen of Greece 1st cousin of Prince Philip.
Equally first cousin was Marina of Kent mother of Michael, Alexandra and Edward. Equally, he was the first cousin of Prince Peter and Princes Eugenia ,the children of Prince George of Greece and Maria Bonaparte , making Charles II a second cousin to bacteriologist Tatiana Ratziwil, daughter of Eugenia Ratziwil.
@@michaelverbakel7632 Elisabeth is direct line of Sax Coburg Gotta, through Albert and Victoria, therefore the name was changed to Windsor during WWI for obvious reasons.
I knew I was going to love this video from the title. Awesome video, very interesting!
Thank you so much!
Prince Philip was a very great man, a real royal, Queen 👑 Elizabeth ll chose the best mate for herself, he was handsome and fathered four beautiful children, he was a naval officer a military man, he served in several charities, he was an humble man, a committed man, sleep in peace HRH Prince Philip.
The Duchess of Sussex is thoughtful of everyone and everything that she does. For example for Prince Phillip funeral services she was not able to come in person as she was so close to her due date with giving birth to Lilibet she sent a thoughtful wreath Meghan and Harry's purple wreath was pictured inside St George's Chapel
The wreath, which was accompanied by a handwritten note from the Duchess, was made up of a variety of bright purple and blue locally sourced flowers - each of which had been thoughtfully selected.
Created by one of their favourite florists, Willow Crossley, the royal couple specifically asked for the wreath to include acanthus mollis (bear's breeches), the national flower of Greece to represent Prince Philip's heritage, and eryngium (sea holly) to represent the Royal Marines. The wreath also featured campanula to represent gratitude and everlasting love, rosemary to signify remembrance, lavender for devotion, and roses in honour of June being Philip's birth month But instead everyone wants to hate in her because the wreath was different from all the others.
This is true. They were an amazing couple. I take comfort that Her Majesty is now reunited with her beloved sister, parents, and the love of her life, Prince Phillip.
@@lumiere7216
How dare you mention that Trollop here? The only thing she ever gave birth to was schemes and lies.
Thank you for filling in this family history.
History is interesting and has affected where we are now. Still Countries have imagined boundaries. We are one family and should treat each other better. I wonder if peace worldwide is ever going to be possible.
It would be better and more sensible to first talk about Prince Philip's great grandparents, then his grandparents, and finally his parents.
Prince Phillip therefore would have had Catherine the Great of Russia as one of his ancestors via his grandmother queen Olga of Greece wife of George I of Greece.Olga was the grand daughter of tsar Nicholas the First of Russia who in turn was the grand son of Catherine the Great.
I think it's great grandson not grandson but the point remains.
@@lightyagami3492 Nicholas I of Russia was the son of Paul I who was son of Catherine the Great and Peter III -there is of course controversy about the real paternity of Paul I with rumors that his real father was Catherine's lover Saltykov -I think she herself admitted this.
@@kaloarepo288 My bad you were right. I had to check again just to be sure lol. Alexander I screwed me up thinking he was the father of Nicholas I LMAO
Let me help you a little bit - from Polish/English Wikopidia. "The son of WLADYSLAW II JAGIELLO - Casimir IV Andrew Jagiellon had a daughter Zofia (Sophia)Jagiellonka, she had a son Kazimierz (Casimir) Hohenzollern, he had a daughter Maria Hohenzollern, she had a son Ludwig VI Wittelsbach (Louis VI, Elector Palatine), he had a son Frederick IV, he had a son Frederick V, he had a daughter, Zofia Dorota Wittelsbach (Sophia of Hanover), she had a son, George I of Hanover, he had a son George II of Hanover, he had a son Fryderyk Luis of Hanover who had a son George III of Hanover , he had a son Edward August of Hanover (Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, KG, KP, GCB, GCH, PC (Edward Augustus; 2 November 1767 - 23 January 1820) was the fourth son and fifth child of King George III. His only legitimate child became QUEEN VICTORIA. she had a son, Edward VII, he had a son George V, he had a son George VI, his dughter was Queen Elizabeth II, her husband Philip, duke of Edinburgh, in full Prince Philip, duke of Edinburgh, earl of Merioneth and Baron Greenwich, also called Philip Mountbatten, original name Philip, prince of Greece and Denmark, was the son of "Princess Alice (1885-1969), who was the eldest daughter of Louis Alexander Mountbatten, 1st marquess of Milford Haven, and Princess Victoria of Hesse and the Rhine, granddaughter of QUEEN VICTORIA.
Thank you.Thoroughly enjoyed it
Glad you did!
The Duke of Kent, Princess Alexandra of Kent and Prince Michael are the only remaining full Royals after the late Prince Philip. On the direct line of The Monarchy , The Queen herself was half “ commoner “ .
Their grandmother Queen Mary's father was not considered a full ruyal in Germany
@@embassyofbellerose8344 Queen Mary's grandfather was Prince Alexander of Wurttemburg who married a Hungarian Countess which made it a morganatic or non royal marriage. The children of this marriage were given the title of Dukes of Teck but they were only considered half royal and had no succession rights to the throne of Wurttemburg
@embassyofbellerose8344 you're welcome. Morganatic marriages were never officially legal in the UK instead since the reign of George III royals had to have the monarch's permission to marry though this has since been amended to I think only applying to the 1st 6 in line to throne. George III had this law made after his 2 brothers married commoners whom he didn't approve of. This also resulted in several George III's sons living with their mistresses and at least 2 of them marrying them illegally
My 16th cousin one removed . The current Queen of Denmark is my 13 th cousin .
Fabulous documentation and historical references
Thanks!
@@BackToHistoryYT Can you do more reserach on the illegitimacy of prince philip. It is said that his paternal great-grandfather is illegitimate
Un cuplu longeviv model al vremurilor de demult si azi cu copii frumosii nepoti stranepoti frumoasa familie regala completa sa danuie infinit condoleante sincere suveranei si Printului odihna vesnica majestate majestatile voastre pace voua
ang also his mother is one of kind she help lot and ended because num
So he and his wife were distantly related both maternally and paternally ......
Ain’t that something?
Prince Philip was the most handsome man on Earth inside out
I abolusutly agree with you 100 percent
Prince Philip was the only traditional royal left of marital age in the middle 1940's! Anybody else would have been a much lesser Noble. Philip was third in line to any Greek throne. Also, Philip had some very philanthropic people in his lininage.
10:17 Handsome and has an aristocratic air about him
Thanks!
I saw the Queen in Toronto in 1957 ? She was beautiful in a convertible
Louis looks like a young King Charles III. Brooding, perhaps a bit discontent in the portrait of him, definitely the ears are a throw back.
So prince Phillip was half
British and half Greek. He was Queen Victoria and prince Albert's grandchild
since his mother princess
Alice was the Queen Victoria
Youngest daughter.
And so he was also the late Queen Elizabeth II's cousin.
Mostly German
No, princess alice is the great grandchild of queen victoria. The other Alice is youngest daughter of queen victoria
Actually, I'd say that Philip's British side was very little of his heritage, and he was definitely NOT Greek by ethnicity at all. His main ancestry was German, Danish (also mainly German) and Russian. None of his relatives were actually Greek. They descended from the Danish King Christian IX on the male side. His grandfather was the second son of King Christian IX, who would not have inherited the throne. When the Greek people overthrew King Otto, they decided they wanted a new king, so their assembly sought out young 17 year-old Prince William of Denmark (who later became Philip's grandfather) as being the one they preferred to take over the monarchy in Greece, so they invited him to do so, and he accepted, and became known as King George I of the Hellenes. Consequently, his descendants in the male line, including Philip, were styled as Princes of both Greece and Denmark. They did not lose their Danish royal titles, having been male line descendants of the King of Denmark.
Actually, Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth had a closer relative in common than Queen Victoria as they were both descendents of King Christian IX of Denmark. Philip's paternal grandfather King George I of the Hellenes (Greece) was a brother to Princess Alexandra of Denmark who became Princess of Wales and then Queen Alexandra, the consort of King Edward VII of the UK (son of Queen Victoria). Queen Alexandra was Queen Elizabeth's great-grandmother, thus King Christian IX of Denmark was Elizabeth's great, great-grandfather, whereas Philip was a closer relation to the Danish king because he was Philip's great-grandfather.
He was a great great grandchild of Albert and Victoria. Elizabeth and Philip were third cousins in the British Royal Family and second cousins once removed in the Danish.
@manueljavier3192 the youngest daughter of Queen Victoria was Princess Beatrice not Alice
Very well done, but it seems you left out any mention of his parents, Alice and Andrew. Although I think you did reference Andrew once. Otherwise, it's a strange oversight.
His immediate family (parents/sisters) are covered in separate videos on my channel.
The royal tradition of marrying cousins seems to have been abandoned for now.
Because they do not have as many children now. That is why Prince Charles did not have a cousin to marry. More's the pity.
Bethlen the first principe of Transilvania and rehedy the 3rd principe of Transilvania ...any info ? They are grand ...fathers of claudine rehedy and are related with actual king of uk Charles
Interesting history
Hells Bells, WW 1 was fought by 1st cousins, English, Tsar Nick 2nd & the German leader.Victoria provided that.
Nicholas II was not a grandchild of Victoria his wife was. George V and Nicholas were both grsndsons of Christian IX of Denmark. Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany was however a grandson of Victoria
@@pedanticradiator1491 And their resemblance was frightening.
That was the greatest King that England ever had Elizabeth was the greatest Queen they ever had they'll never be another as great as they were ever
Philip was not king
@@pedanticradiator1491 correct, and nor was he the greatest of anything.
Prince Philp and Queen Elibeth were cousins how closer could they be
Charles looks just like his great grandmother Victoria! Truly striking resemblance.
*great great (great?)
also, fun fact: *the Queen and Prince Philip were both descendants of Victoria. They were third cousins.*
Royalty all look similar due to a small general pool.
@@hamburgerhamburgerv2 noo, Queen Victoria also had a granddaughter named Victoria and she was Prince Philip’s grandmother. Her sister was also the last empress of Russia, Alexandra Feodorovna.
I think I have this right... Philip had no actual Greek DNA heritage?
Correct
No royal had Greek DNA. We had royalty that great powers chose for us. And that's the main reason we abolished monarchy.
Correct.
Schleswig-Holstein /Glücksburg, so German DNA
@@carldauphin2284 you have pretty far back in time to find the last male line of Gorm the Old and his son Harald Gormsson (Harald Bluetooth), who is said to had won all of Denmark and Norway and turned danes christian
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_tree_of_Danish_monarchs
Wow I wondered where Prince Philip got his blond hair. He didn't look like a Greek. I stayed in Greece & luv Greece. Prince Philip didn't look Greek. His Dad was Prince of Denmark 2 be King of Denmark, asked to be King of Greece. Philip's 4 older sister's had blond hair. They were happy 2 get a baby brother with same bright blond hair! His greatest Grandma a Russian royal. Philip's Mom is Queen Victoria's daughter. Queen Elizabeth's II Mom has no royal blood at all. His Grandma was Queen Victoria 1 of the Greatest Queens in British History. Queen Elizabeth's Mom is of no royal blood. Video went so fast. I only watched it quickly. Ñ I'm a History Buff in USA. I never read any of this info at all. Then Princess Diana has more British English Blood than Charles? I've stayed in both the UK & Denmark. I luv them both. I'd like to see video of Prince William's & his Mother's Princess Diana heritage line. GOD BLESS & Thx U***❤
@@embassyofbellerose8344 Diana was descended from illegitimate sons of both Charles II and James II. Yes the late Queen Mother was legally a commoner but her father was an Earl just like Diana's was and her mother's family were connected to several Dukes.
Bello e grande
Ancestry - Great Grandparents - 1 Danish, 5 Germans, 1 British, 1 Russian. Bit German, I think.
Good German like most of UK royals
I don't understand why Greece's monarchy didn't actually have Greek blood.🤷♀️
And you think the UK monarch has English blood prior to Diana
@@adpmurphy I have no idea about anything!🤷♀️
In the 19th century when the Turkish Ottoman Empire split up many of the new countries in Eastern and Central Europe chose foreign mostly German Princes as their new kings
@adpmurphy check out the ancestry of the late Queen Mother, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon it is mostly British
@@adpmurphy yes Queen mother had Scottish, English and Irish blood just like Diana.
Other fun fact Queen mother ( lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon) & lady Diana Spencer & Catherine Middleton all are descendants of Catherine Carey (Daughter of mary boleyn and many historian believe her father was Henry viii)
Nice video! Thank you.
Hmm .... Prince Philip's ancestors are ALMOST the same as HMTQ's ancestors. ^_^
They’re cousins
@@lumiere7216
Yeah I know. :)
@@here_we_go_again2571 inbreeding
Not the Russian parts but yeah there is some overlap.
The Queen Mother used to call him "The Hun"
I find the method of starting at the chest and scanning up to the face quite irritating.
King consort should have been his name.
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I have noticed that the Royalities have very long names. Unless they are adding there Christian names as well. Also, I happen to notice they marry there first Cousins. Why? Why do they marry their first cousins?
They marry their cousins to keep the wealth within the family.
@@klauklaw8020 mainly the bloodline.
They really no longer marry first cousins as this is now more frowned upon, and many modern royals have actually married commoners. Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth were NOT first cousins. They were more like second or third cousins a few times removed. Their common ancestors were Queen Victoria and King Christian IX of Denmark at least three and four generations back.
Wealth, property, religion. My first husband and I were first cousins.
All European Royalty are related to the Danish Royals.
Was a BETTER BREED than Elizabeth!
Why do royals have so many names many of which end with George?
Plot twist his ancestors are the queens also
lol
So Queen Elizabeth is Prince Phillip's cousin eweee
They weren't first cousins! Quite distant compared to other royals, particularly in the past.
🎉syedsyeda😂❤
Please hindi
I wonder where the blond hair came from
Maybe from his parents
Denmark.
German, English, Russian, Swedisch, Greece, and some more ...... 😅
Pls do a collabration with lindsay hoilday
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His own mother stated the mountbattens were mongrels and she would know She was a Mountbatten.
You should not quote from a TV dramatisation which stretches the truth.
@@ds1868The Crown is blasphemy.
Who knows who these people are. There's been so many cover ups.
Oldenburg. Anglo Saxons
Norther Germany
All of them
No matter the country
It's the staff, personnel.
Same system
Different managers
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prince philip suppose to be the king uk and his wife queen but why he stil prince not a king? just asking if we base his ansestor
The title King is of a higher rank than the one of Queen. Since Elizabeth II was the one who inherited the throne, she was a Queen Regnant, meaning she reigned in her own right. If Philip was titled King he would have been above her :)
What "Back To History" said
And a woman who marries
a British king is called the
Queen Consort.
Queen Victoria's husband,
Prince Albert of Saxe
Coburg-Gotha was titled
Prince Consort. But in
both cases the children
were given the husband's
family name
Queen Victoria = House of Hanover
Prince Albert = House of Saxe ....
Queen Elizabeth = House of Windsor
Prince Philip = House of Mountbatten.
In 1917 the British changed the
name of their royal family from
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor.
Before 1917 Prince Philips
family was known as the house
of Battenburg. After 1917
the name of the family was
Mountbatten.
Re: George V (5th's)s wife -- She
was Princess Mary ("May") of
Teck. Her family's name was
changed to Cambridge (in 1917)
It was the name of her mother's
family ("Cambridge")
She became Queen Consort Mary
(m.1893) i.e. her married name
was TecK and became Saxe-
Coburg-Gotha. ---> Windsor
(in 1917)
Queen Mary's brother was
Princess Alexander of Teck
he became Alexander of
Cambridge, the First Earl
of Athlone.
Czars cabal
His Uncle Mountbatten was listed as a p file by the FBI.
How? He was never in the US.
German German German German. Mean old stick.
Is it me or was Philip decomposing nearing his death? he looked like he was a few thousand years old
What a horrible thing to say
Ya live long enough...
The man had cancer. Very few cancer patients at the age of 99 look like a spring chicken.
Let’s see how well you look when your 2 months shy of 100 .
They all naturally due to age,, look that way .. your grandparents will look the same as him at that age..😊
Who cares! He's a PENNILESS prince before he catfish the British Queen!
Even though he had only $12 in his Bank account. He still served Britain and was loyal to the queen until he died
He is related to queen Victoria so he is a distant cousin of the queen
Interesting video I'm Canadian Macedonian myself here in Hamilton Ontario Canada
Not Greek
Bunicul lui ,George 1 ,a fost "mai grec decât grecii ""!Tribal nu a fost grec dar a aparținut Greciei !!!!
True married into blood family that’s evil when married into cousins