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Remembering Philip: The Prince at Tokyo Bay

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16th April 2021
The Duke of Edinburgh served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War, and during that time, he found himself in a place that he was never meant to be: Tokyo Bay on VJ (Victory over Japan) Day in 1945. Just before midnight on 9 August, Japanese Emperor Hirohito convened the Supreme War Council. After a long debate and a proposal by Prime Minister Suzuki, Japan eventually accepted the…
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Books written by the Duke of Edinburgh

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15th April 2021
Throughout his life, the Duke of Edinburgh authored 13 books and contributed an amount of forwards to others. Sharing his passion for the environment, his books ranged from issues close to him to speeches he wrote himself. To commemorate his life, Royal Central is recapping…
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Remembering Philip: The Prince and the Royal Navy

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14th April 2021
Having lived just short of 100 years, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, began his brush with the Royal Navy from the very beginning. In 1922 as an 18-month-old exile, after the Greek military government banished the Greek Royal Family, Philip was carried on board a British warship in a makeshift cot made from an orange crate. His maternal grandfather, Prince Louis of Battenberg, had been Admiral…
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The memorials to a long-forgotten prince

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6th April 2021
His name was Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein. Born 14 April 1867, he was the eldest son of Princess Helena, the third daughter of Queen Victoria. On 29 October 1900, Prince Christian would die of typhoid fever after coming down with malaria in Pretoria, one of South Africa’s three capital cities. Having only been 33 years old at the time of his death, his legacy has lasted much…
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