Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburg and husband of Queen Elizabeth II is dead. He passed away on Friday, 9th April 2021. This news broke around 11 am GMT (12 pm Nigerian time) when numerous international news agencies, including the BBC, began to report it.

Born on June 10, 1921, on the Greek island of Corfu, he was the only son of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, and Princess Alice of Battenberg. Greece’s king, Philip’s uncle, was forced to abdicate when Philip was a baby, and the family fled to Paris, France.

At age 7, he moved to England, where he lived at Kensington Palace. Philip lived there with his paternal grandmother, Victoria Mountbatten, and later attended Gordonstoun, a boarding school in Scotland.