Philippe Leopold Louis Marie net worth is $30 Million
Philippe Leopold Louis Marie Wiki Biography
Born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark on the 10th June 1921, in Mon Repos, Corfu, Kingdom of Greece, he is the Prince of the United Kingdom, and Duke of Edinburgh thanks to his marriage to Queen Elizabeth II, which has been active since 1947.
Have you ever wondered how rich Prince Philip is, as of early 2017? According to authoritative sources it has been estimated that Philip’s net worth is as high as $30 million, acquired through his involvement in various business projects, but also he has published a number of books, the sales of which have also added to his wealth.
Prince Philip Net Worth $30 Million
Since day one, Philip’s life has been quite interesting. He is the son of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and Princess Alice of Battenberg, the fifth child of his parents, but the only son, his sisters were Margarita, Theodora, Cecilie, and Sophie. Coming from a Royal family had its good and bad sides; he and his family were exiled from Greece when he was still a baby, allegedly being carried in a cot made from a fruit box. They settled in Paris in a house owned by Princess George of Greece and Denmark, who was his aunt. Once he was old enough for schooling, Philip first entered American School in Paris, and then in 1928 he changed not just school but country, as he moved to the United Kingdom to attend Cheam School. During this time, Philip was living with Victoria Mountbatten, Dowager Marchioness of Milford Haven – his maternal grandmother – in her residence at Kensington Palace, but also lived with his uncle George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven, at Lynden Manor in Bray, Berkshire. His life went into further distress when his mother was diagnosed with schizophrenia and put into an asylum; meantime his sisters married German noblemen.
He wasn’t in contact with his mother for the rest of his young years, as he was then sent to Schule Schloss Salem in Germany, which was owned by the family of one of his brothers –in-law Berthold, Margrave of Baden, and therefore his education was free. However, the rise of Nazism in Germany saw Philip move from Salem to Gordonstoun in Scotland, but the following year he left and joined the Royal Navy, graduating from the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth as the best cadet on course. When the Second World War broke out, he fought on the British side, and steadily progressed in ranks, reaching lieutenant ranks in the 16th July 1942, and then in October became first lieutenant of HMS Wallace. He finally left the Navy in 1952, when his wife became Queen Elizabeth.
Back in 1934 he first met Elizabeth, and they started corresponding in 1939, maintaining through letters during the war, when Philip was at sea. Then in 1946, Philip asked for the hand of the young Princess from King George VI, and he accepted the request. The two married the following year and since then, Philip has become one of the most influential people of the UK’s royal family. He is patron of numerous organizations, according to some reports he has been involved in over 800, such as World Wildlife Fund, The Work Foundation, and International Equestrian Federation, among many others.
Of course Philip has no private life, but has been a staunch supporter of The Queen, and respected by the British public for that. They have three sons and a daughter.
Charles, Prince of Wales, Anne, Princess Royal, Prince Andrew, Duke of York, Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex
Parents
Princess Alice of Battenberg, Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark
Siblings
Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark, Princess Sophie of Greece and Denmark, Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark, Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark
[to a 13-year-old aspiring astronaut, who was wishing to fly the NOVA rocket] Well, you'll never fly in it, you're too fat to be an astronaut.
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[to Barack Obama after being told that Obama had met with the Chinese and Russian ambassadors along with David Cameron] How can you tell the difference between them?
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[when informed that a student was going to help out in Romania for six months, he asked if the student was going to help the Romanian orphans and was told that he was not] Ah good, there's so many over there you feel they breed them just to put in orphanages.
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[to a Mr. Patel--a common Indian surname--at a reception for 400 British Indian businessmen at Buckingham Palace] There's a lot of your family in tonight.
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[of a fuse box, whilst on a tour of a factory in Edinburgh, Scotland] It looks as if it was put in by an Indian.
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[to a blind, wheelchair-bound woman who was accompanied by her guide dog] Do you know they're now producing eating dogs for the anorexics?
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[to a British student in Papua New Guinea] You managed not to get eaten then?
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[asked of a driving instructor in Scotland] How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to get them through the test?
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[on a visit to Lockerbie in 1993 to a man who lived in a road where eleven people had been killed by wreckage from the Pan Am jumbo jet] People usually say that after a fire it is water damage that is the worst. We are still trying to dry out Windsor Castle.
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[after accepting a gift from a Kenyan woman] You are a woman, aren't you?
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A gun is no more dangerous than a cricket bat in the hands of a madman.
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[to a group of deaf children standing next to a Jamaican steel drum band] Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf.
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[to an inhabitant of the Cayman Islands] Aren't most of you descended from pirates?
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[to a Briton in Budapest, Hungary] You can't have been here that long - you haven't got a pot belly.
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I just wonder what it would be like to be reincarnated in an animal whose species had been so reduced in numbers than it was in danger of extinction. What would be its feelings toward the human species whose population explosion had denied it somewhere to exist . . . I must confess that I am tempted to ask for reincarnation as a particularly deadly virus.
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[In a 1966 conversation with the matron of a hospital while on a tour of the Caribbean] You have mosquitoes. I have the press.
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[to a group of British students in China] If you stay here much longer, you'll all be slitty-eyed.
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[in 1981, in reference to an economic recession] Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.
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[on the U.S. Apollo program] It seems to me that it's the best way of wasting money that I know of. I don't think investments on the moon pay a very high dividend.
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The man who invented the red carpet needed his head examined.
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[at the 1986 World Wildlife Fund conference] If it has four legs and is not a chair, has wings and is not an aeroplane, or swims and is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.
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British women can't cook.
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[to an Australian Aborigine] Do you still throw spears at each other?
Likes to drive a Hackney green taxi through London.
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Has several cups of coffee each morning.
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Sleeps in his own private suite.
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Is related to Tsarina Alexandra through his mother's side of the family. Because he has the same DNA passed down from females as Czarina Alexandra and her children, investigators used his DNA to compare with the skeletal remains found in Yekaterinburg--where the remaining Romanov family was executed by Bolshevik soldiers--to determine whether they were the Czarina and her children or not. They also used his DNA to see if Anna Anderson was really Grand Duchess Anastasia.
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He was awarded the AC (Companion of the Order of Australia) in the 1988 Queen's Birthday Honours List.
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Briefly hospitalised with a chest infection in April 2008.
As a great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria, he is positioned at 496th in the line of succession to the British Throne.
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Became a naturalised British subject in 1947.
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Became the husband of a Princess in 1947, and so of a Queen in 1952, but did not become a Prince of the United Kingdom until 1957.
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The Greek Royal Family have no surname. When he gave up his title of Prince of Greece in 1947 he had to choose what to call himself. His Uncle Louis Mountbatten suggested Mountbatten, which is the anglicised version of his mother's name before marriage.
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Among the other conditions Philip had to accept to in order to marry Elizabeth was that their children would not bear his name. By Letters Patent in 1960, Elizabeth gave her descendants surname Mountbatten-Windsor, except for those with the title "HRH" - which is a title used by all of her children and male-line grandchildren.
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Born on the dining-room table of his parents' house, Mon Repos.
Created Duke of Edinburgh, Earl of Merioneth and Baron Greenwich on 19 November 1947.
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Appointed a Knight of the Garter in 1947, a Knight of the Thistle in 1952, a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire in 1953 and a Member of the Order of Merit in 1968.
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Admiral of the Fleet, Field Marshal and Marshal of the Royal Air Force since 1953.
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Is the Duke of Edinburgh, the Earl of Merioneth and the Baron Greenwich.
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Was the first President of World Wildlife Fund - UK (WWF) from its formation in 1961 to 1982.
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Prince Philip gained his RAF wings in 1953, his helicopter wings in 1956 and his private pilot's licence in 1959.
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In April 1952, his wife made him a Knight of the Thistle.
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In June 1968, his wife appointed him to the Order of Merit.
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