How Philip the Greek was British all along

Despite all the debate before his marriage, the Duke of Edinburgh’s link to Queen Victoria meant he was a British subject

To those unwilling to analyse the dynastic blood that coursed through his veins, the duke was always Phil the Greek, though there was probably not one corpuscle of Hellenic origin. Danish, definitely, with Russian and German too. But the only thing tangibly Greek when he was exiled from Corfu in an orange box aged 18 months, was the worthless title he took with him of Prince Philip of Greece.