Married to Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain since 1947, Prince Philip was the son of Princess Alice of Battenberg and Prince André of Greece and Denmark
The first child of Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank was named after Prince Philip and the great-grandparents of both parents – Prince Albert and Reverend Edward Hawke Brooksbank.
So, who are the men who inspired the name of August Philip Hawke Brookesbank?
Prince Philip
Born: June 10, 1921 (age: 99)
Married to Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain since 1947, Prince Philip was the son of Princess Alice of Battenberg and Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark.
He was born into two royal families, but was exiled from Greece as a child. He went to schools in France, Germany and the United Kingdom before joining the Royal Navy in 1939, at the age of 18.
Prince Philip, born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, met then Princess Elizabeth in 1934 and the two began to correspond in July 1939. After the war, Philip received permission from King George VI to marry her.
Before the engagement was announced in July 1947, the prince abandoned his Greek and Danish titles and became a British citizen. He adopted the surname of his maternal grandparents – Mountbatten.
He left active military service after Elizabeth became queen in 1952, after reaching the rank of commander, and was formally made a British prince in 1957.
Prince Philip and Elizabeth had four children: Charles, Prince of Wales; Anne, royal princess; Prince Andrew, Duke of York; and Prince Edward, Count of Wessex.
He is now a patron, president or member of more than 780 organizations and is called Duke of Edinburgh. He retired from his royal duties on August 2, 2017, aged 96, after completing 22,219 solo engagements since 1952.
Prince Philip was known for putting his foot in his mouth regularly when cursing during royal visits. In 2015, he told a photographer to ‘just take the fucking photo’ during a photo call at the RAF Club.
Queen Victoria’s husband Albert, the Prince Consort, was born in the Saxon Duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld to parents well connected with Europe’s ruling monarchs
Prince Albert (Franz Albert August Karl Emanuel)
Born: August 26, 1819. He died on December 14, 1861
Queen Victoria’s husband Albert, the Prince Consort, was born in the Saxon Duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, the son of parents well connected to the ruling monarchs of Europe.
At age 20, he married his cousin, Victoria, and the couple had nine children: Victoria; Albert ‘Bertie’; Alice; Alfred; Helena; Louise; Arthur; Leopold; and Beatrice.
During the courtship phase, Victoria wrote: ‘[Albert] it is extremely beautiful; his hair is almost the same color as mine; his eyes are big and blue, and he has a beautiful nose and a very sweet mouth with fine teeth; but the charm of his countenance is his expression, which is very charming. ‘She proposed to him on October 15, 1839.
He quickly developed a reputation for supporting public causes, including educational reform and the abolition of slavery around the world. Queen Victoria trusted him to look after the house, the office and the estates.
The prince developed the constitutional monarchy by persuading his wife to be less partisan in his dealings with parliament, and when he died at the age of 42, Queen Victoria was in mourning for the rest of her life.
Reverend Edward Hawke Brooksbank
Born on December 9, 1789 Died on August 5, 1883
Rev. Edward Brooksbank held the post of Judge of Peace for West Riding, Yorkshire, and lived at Healaugh Manor in Yorkshire.
The Tickhill vicar married Hannah Heywood, who gave birth to her three children, but died in 1846 at the age of 58. The reverend then married Mary Parker on December 5, 1848.
He graduated from Cambridge University with a Master of Arts (MA) and died at the age of 93.
Prince Augusto Frederico
Prince Augusto Frederico (pictured) was the sixth son and ninth son of King George III
Born: January 27, 1773 Died: April 21, 1843
Prince Augusto Frederico was the sixth child and the ninth child of King George III.
While traveling through Rome, he met Lady Augusta Murray and the couple secretly married on April 4, 1793. They married for the second time without revealing their full names in St. George’s, Hanover Square, Westminster, on December 5, 1793 .
Both marriages took place without your father’s permission. Because of this, in August 1794, the marriage was annulled on the grounds that it violated the Royal Marriage Act of 1772.
He continued to live with Lady Augusta until 1801, when he received a £ 12,000 parliamentary scholarship and the couple separated. Lady Augusta received custody of her children Augustus Frederick d’Este and Augusta Emma d’Este. She received maintenance of £ 4,000 a year.
A year after Lady Augusta’s death, the Duke of Sussex married for the second time on May 2, 1831, again without obtaining the sovereign’s permission, with Lady Cecilia Letitia Buggin.
She was never recognized as the Duchess of Sussex, but became Duchess of Inverness by Queen Victoria in 1840.
Prince Augustus was Queen Victoria’s favorite uncle and gave it to him in his marriage to Prince Albert.