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Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

consort of Elizabeth II from 1952 to 2021 (1921-2021)

10 dated entries naming Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, drawn from 8 separate years between 1937 CE and 2022 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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20th century

  • 1937November 16 – Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark, wife of Hereditary Grand Duke Georg Donatus of Hesse, and sister of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (b. 1911)source
  • 1947July 9 – King George VI of the United Kingdom announces the engagement of his daughter Princess Elizabeth to Lt. Philip Mountbatten.source
  • 1947November 20 – Wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh: Princess Elizabeth (later Elizabeth II), the daughter of George VI of the United Kingdom, marries The Duke of Edinburgh at Westminster Abbey in London.source
  • 1950August 15 – Anne, Princess Royal, British royal, daughter of Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburghsource
  • 1960February 19 – Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, British former prince and second son of Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburghsource
  • 1964March 10 – Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh, British prince and third son (youngest child) of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburghsource
  • 1964October 5 – Elizabeth II and The Duke of Edinburgh begin an 8-day visit to Canada.source
  • 1976June 11 - Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh gathers 126 of the UK's leading engineers at Buckingham Palace to form the Fellowship of Engineering, later to be known as the Royal Academy of Engineering.source
  • 1979August 27 – The Troubles: Lord Mountbatten of Burma and two others are killed in a bombing on his boat in the Republic of Ireland by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA). Mountbatten was a British fleet admiral, statesman and an uncle of The Duke of Edinburgh. On the same day, the Warrenpoint ambush occurs, killing 18 British soldiers. Doreen Knatchbull, Baroness Brabourne would die in a hospital the following day from injuries sustained in the bombing.source

21st century

  • 2022September 19 – The state funeral of Elizabeth II is held in Westminster Abbey, London. Her coffin is then taken by procession to Windsor Castle for burial with her husband, parents and sister in the King George VI Memorial Chapel. The funeral is speculated to be the most watched television event in world history.source

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