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...earl's achievements, none matched the way he pushed forward his handsome young Greek nephew, the fair-haired but indigent Prince Philip of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucks-burg. He arranged his nephew's first meet ing with 13-year-old Princess Elizabeth, watched over their friendship until he saw Philip become consort to the Queen...
...princeling who was born on the island of Corfu on June 10, 1921. Philip was the fifth child and only son of tall, monocled Prince Andrew, brother of King Constantine of Greece. By descent the family was not Greek, but belonged to the royal Danish House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg, which the British, French and Russians had put on the throne at the end of the 19th century. Philip's mother was Princess Alice of Battenberg, a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria. Young Philip never learned Greek. His father, a lieutenant general, was blamed by clamoring republicans...
...centuries of subjugation to one or another of its neighbors, Norway effected a peaceful divorce from its current master, Sweden. Seeking a constitutional king in the relatively neutral ground of Denmark, the Norwegian Parliament offered the crown to the second son of the prolific royal House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (whose members today include King Paul of Greece, Prince Philip of Great Britain and the Duchess of Kent). The young "sailor Prince," as he was called, agreed only if the people of Norway confirmed his choice in a national plebiscite. This they...
Died. Princess Alexandra Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-GIucksburg, 69. onetime wife (1908-20) of Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia, fourth son of Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II; of a heart attack; in Lyon, France...
Died. George Schleswig-Holstein Sonderburg-Glucksburg, 56, King George II of the Hellenes, Prince of Denmark and Duke of Sparta, six months after his second return to the Greek throne; of a heart attack; in Athens (see FOREIGN NEWS...