white, privileged, <s>border-line</s> racist Prince Philip dies at 99

He was the longest-serving spouse of a reigning British monarch and the oldest-ever male member of the British royal family.

Philip was born on the Greek island of Corfu on June 10, 1921, to Prince Andrew of Greece and Princess Alice of Battenberg.

His family belonged to the royal Danish House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg, which had been installed on the Greek throne at the end of the 19th century. They were exiled from Greece after a revolutionary, anti-monarchy court banished Philip's father for life.

Philip was later sent to Great Britain, where he attended the Cheam Preparatory and Gordonstoun boarding schools.

The Royal Naval College at Dartmouth, where the prince enrolled at age 17, was the first place he spent significant time with his future wife, a distant cousin who was then 13 years old. (The two had the same great-great-grandparents, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.)

The couple married at Westminster Abbey in November 1947. The ceremony was broadcast on the radio to 200 million people.

Phillip and Elizabeth had four children ― Prince Charles, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward ― born from 1948 to 1964. To include her husband's name in the family tree, Elizabeth determined that her descendants who did not use the title of "royal highness" would take on the family name Mountbatten-Windsor.

In later years, Philip became notorious for his controversial — and often racist — "jokes" to members of the public, like when he told a British student living in China "if you stay here much longer, you will go home with slitty eyes".

It is with deep sorrow that Her Majesty The Queen has announced the death of her beloved husband, His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

His Royal Highness passed away peacefully this morning at Windsor Castle. pic.twitter.com/XOIDQqlFPn
— The Royal Family (@RoyalFamily) April 9, 2021

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white, privileged, border-line racist Prince Philip dies at 99

He was Queen Elizabeth's husband for more than 73 years