Prince Philip celebrates

The Duke of Edinburgh today marks his 99th birthday

Jonathan Spangler, senior lecturer in history at Manchester Metropolitan University, on the Duke of Edinburgh’s role as the longest-serving royal consort in British history.

In November 1947, a dynastic union was forged between the royal houses of Greece and Great Britain. It would be one of the last of this kind of royal marriages in history - a type of union that had knitted together the continent for 1,000 years.

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