“In the church of Agios Georgios, of the Old Fortress, he was baptized on October 24, 1921, the date of the old calendar, the Corfiot, Prince Philip of the United Kingdom, Duke of EdinburghAs revealed to APE-MPE by the director of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Corfu, archaeologist, Tenia Rigakou.
The contractors of Prince Philip were the Municipality of Corfu, represented by the mayor Alexandros Kokotos and Princess Olga, daughter of Prince Nicholas.
The people of Corfu always considered him their roommate because he was born in the palace of Mon Repo on May 28, 1921 (according to the old calendar), where he took his first steps. Shortly before the change of government of the Reigning Republic in Greece in 1924, when the Second Hellenic Republic was established, Prince Philip fled Greece at the age of almost one year in 1922. Prince Andreas’s father, Greece and Denmark, In 1923 he was sentenced to death, but with the intervention of the English he was saved.
It is said that Prince Philip never returned to his hometown of Corfu, but members of the royal family maintain close ties with the island all these years, as they visit it repeatedly in the summer.
The last time was in July 2019 when Philip’s son, Charles, Prince of Wales and his wife Camilla chose the island to spend their summer vacation.
The royal family as usual is hosted in the villa of the famous Rothschild family in Kerasia.
The photo was provided by the Athenian Agency
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