• 10 June 192128 February 1947:
His Royal Highness Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark • 28 February 194719 November 1947:
Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, Royal Navy • 1920 November 1947:
Lieutenant His Royal Highness Sir Philip Mountbatten, R.N. • 20 November 194722 February 1957:
His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh
Full style Prince Philip's British honours were read out at his funeral, held in the United Kingdom, by
Thomas Woodcock,
Garter Principal King of Arms, as follows:
Royal styles and titles 1947 On 19 November 1947, the day preceding his wedding, King George VI bestowed by
Letters Patent the
style His Royal Highness on Philip and, on the morning of the wedding, 20 November 1947, further Letters Patent created him
Duke of Edinburgh,
Earl of Merioneth, and
Baron Greenwich of Greenwich in the County of London. ;, Vanuatu • 1952–2021 : :In
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Philip Meirionnydd Debate over Prince Philip's titles and honours Royal title On the popular, but erroneous, assumption that if Philip had the style of
His Royal Highness he was automatically a
British Prince, media reports after his marriage to Princess Elizabeth referred to a
Prince Philip, with or without reference to any ducal title. This may have been influenced by the fact that he had actually been a
Prince of Greece and Denmark by birth, the use of which titles he had discontinued already. Although the
princely title was omitted in the British
Regency Act 1953, and in Letters Patent of November 1953 appointing
Counsellors of State, it had been included in Letters Patent of 22 October 1948 conferring princely rank on children from Philip's marriage to Elizabeth.
King George VI, however, is believed to have been clear and intentional in having withheld the title of
Prince from his future son-in-law.{{NoteTag|"
Home Office,
Whitehall. S.W.1. 28 February 1955. "My dear George {Coldstream,
Clerk of the Crown in Chancery}, We were speaking the other day about the designation of the Duke of Edinburgh. In 1948 the
General Register Office consulted us about the way in which the birth of Prince Charles was to be registered. They sent over a suggested entry, in column 4 of which (name and surname of father) they had inserted: 'His Royal Highness Prince Philip'. I consulted
{Sir Alan} Lascelles Principal Private Secretary to the King on this and he laid my letter before
The King, together with the draft entry, I have in my possession the entry, as amended by The King in his own hand. The King amended column 4, name and surname of father, to read: "
His Royal Highness Philip, Duke of Edinburgh". Austin Strutt {Assistant
Under-Secretary of State}"}} On 3 February 1953,
John Diefenbaker MP expressed to the
House of Commons of Canada his desire to see Philip bear a
title that alluded to the Queen's pan-national position and put forward the suggestion of
Prince of the Commonwealth. In May of the following year,
UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill received a written suggestion from the Queen that her husband be granted the title that Diefenbaker had mentioned, or some other suitable augmentation of his style. Churchill preferred the title
Prince Consort, but the
Foreign Secretary,
Anthony Eden, expressed a preference for
Prince of the Realm. While the Commonwealth Prime Ministers were assembled in London, Churchill was requested by the Queen to informally solicit their opinions on the matter of the Queen's husband's title. Canadian Prime Minister
Louis St. Laurent was the only one to express "misgivings", while Philip insisted to the Queen that he objected to any enhancement of his title. The Queen thereafter contacted Churchill and told him to drop the matter. with the capitalised definite article normally restricted to the children of monarchs. While conservative
ministers and
editorials supported his award of an
honour, Abbott himself later admitted to a lapse of judgement, saying the appointment was 'injudicious'. ==Naval ranks and appointments==