Prince Philip fury: Duke's scathing rebuke of 'stuffy' Windsor Castle courtier exposed
PRINCE PHILIP was forced to put a "stuffy" courtier back in his place with a scathing rebuke after his position as a royal was put into question, a new documentary has revealed.
Prince Philip: Expert reveals awkward encounter with courtier
Prince Philip was born a prince of Denmark and Greece but renounced his birth titles upon his wedding to then-Princess Elizabeth in 1947. The Duke of Edinburgh reportedly struggled to be accepted as a member of the Royal Family due to his family connections to Germany. But Philip made sure to highlight his royal status as a "stuffy" courtier appeared to question his lineage during a visit to Windsor Castle.
True Royalty founder and producer Nick Bullen claimed in a recent video the Duke of Edinburgh was forced to briefly interrupt the tour of the castle to point out he had direct connections to the residence long before marrying Elizabeth.
Mr Bullen said: "When Prince Philip was first married to the Queen, or going out with the Queen, he was shown around Windsor Castle by a rather stuffy courtier who was explaining bits of the castle to him.
"He turned around to the courtier and said, ‘look, I do know the castle. My mother and grandmother were both born here.’
"Prince Philip was royal as anybody was."
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Prince Philip's mother, Princess Alice of Battenberg, had been born at Windsor Castle in 1885 the granddaughter of Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, Queen Victoria's second-eldest daughter.
Mr Bullen continued: "Lots of the Queen’s immediate family history is connected to Windsor Castle.
"Prince Philip is the son of a princess called Princess Alice, Princess Alice of Battenberg, who was born at Windsor Castle.
"She was a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria. Her own mother, Princess Victoria of Hesse, was also born at Windsor Castle.
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"So Prince Philip’s mother and grandmother were both born at Windsor Castle."
Princess Alice of Battenberg, whose father Louis was an officer in the Royal Navy, lived mostly in the UK and the German Empire before settling in Greece with her husband, Prince Andrew of Denmark and Greece.
The couple welcomed four daughters before Prince Philip was born in 1921 at Mon Repos in Corfu.
The family of seven had to be rescued by HMS Calypso after the fall of King Constantinos in 1922, after which Alice and Andrew settled with their daughters and Philip in Paris.
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Prince Philip briefly lived in the UK as he attended Cheams School but was later moved to Schule Schloss Salem to "save schooling fees" as one of his sister, Theodora, had married into the noble family who owned the school.
Philip returned to Britain in 1934 to enroll at Gordonstoun, a new boarding school his former headmaster Kurt Hahn established after being forced to flee Germany due to being Jewish.
The young prince later followed in his grandfather's footsteps and joined the Royal Navy, continuing his education at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. It was at the college a Princess Elizabeth first met her future husband.
The couple confirmed their engagement in 1947 and tied the knot at Westminster Abbey on November 20 the same year.
Prince Philip gave up both his Danish and Greek titles before the wedding and became His Royal Highness Prince Philip The Duke of Edinburgh.
The Duke of Edinburgh, 98, officially retired from public duties in 2017 after more than 60 years serving at Her Majesty's side and is currently isolating with the Queen at Windsor Castle.