I recently argued with somebody that Phlip had NO Greek blood but this person insisted he did. Can you straighten us out?
I only saw Philip once - coming down Broadway with the Queen on some long ago Royal visit. I did think he was one of the ugliest man I ever saw but we all have different tastes and he was pretty old then!
The Greek royal family are actually Danes. Their family name is Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg. They were invited to take the throne of Greece in the 1860s. The first one was George I, a younger son of Christian IX of Denmark. The SHSGs intermarried with German and Russian royalty. So he has not a drop of actual Greek blood.