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Philip's parents were Prince Andrew of Greece & Denmark and Princess Alice of Battenberg; thus, he is 50% German and 50% Greek.
(Update answer 3 Feb 2011)
I think this answer is a little simplistic. He actually has no Greek blood at all. His mother was German, that is true. She was a great grand daughter of Queen Victoria of England, but Victoria too was of German descent. All of Alice's other parents, grandparents, etc ere all German.
His father, Prince Andrew was the son of King George the 1st of Greece & Denmark and Olga of Russia.
First, look at George. 1st He was the son of Prince Christian IX of Denmark and Louise of Hesse-Cassel (German). Christian IX was brought to Denmark to assume the throne of a childless relative. Where was Prince Christian from? Germany. He was born in the town of Schleswig in Germany, so in essence, George 1st of Greece was German.
What about Olga of Russia? Her mother was German and her father was Russian. He in turn also came from a German mother and a Russian father.
Prince Philip is of German descent. Percentages are difficult to work out with all the inter-marrying that went on, but he is, overwhelmingly, German.
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Because Prince Philip married a female member of the royal family, whereas Catherine married a male. The royal family often creates differences depending on which gender you are.
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Queen Elizabeth II has four children with her husband Prince Philip. She has 3 boys and 1 girl. The birth order is Prince Charles, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward
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She was 8 years old when Prince Andrew divorced Sarah Ferguson.
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king Charles i really liked to play tennis, and as he got older he started to take a lot more interests in music and art.
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John Philip got a few awards.
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he went to singing classes and he got dicovered and after about a year he became a singer and then he got famous and had his first album.
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Yes Prince Charles was Queen Elizabeth's first son. Charles was born in November of 1948 about a year after his parents got married. His brothers Andrew and Edward were not born until the 1960's.
