One extension to hCard is used: dday.Ĭould this information be represented entirely using microformats, with no RDFa? Yes, but a separate page would need to be built for each person described due to limitations in XFN. It also demonstrates a practical example of marking up a genealogy using existing standards. "The King and The Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return to London tomorrow.This page is intended to be a demonstration of Cognition's unique abilities to parse both RDFa and microformats and combine the information gleaned from both into meaningful data, which can be exported in various formats. Queen Elizabeth died on Thursday, 17 months after her husband, at Balmoral Castle in Scotland.īuckingham Palace said in a statement: "The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon. Philip became the longest serving consort of any monarch with his almost 70 years of service. He would never become king though, because even though he had royal blood, British parliamentary law declared that the spouse of monarch is known as a consort.ĭespite female spouses being called Queen Consort, such as King Charles III's wife Camilla, male spouses retain the title of Prince Consort. He became Duke of Edinburgh, Earl of Merioneth and Baron Greenwich, and Elizabeth granted him the title of prince 10 years after they were married Philip proposed to her later that year, and the two married in 1947 in a ceremony that was broadcasted over the radio to 200 million people worldwide.īefore they could marry Philip became a naturalized British citizen and took on the last name Mountbatten. "Yet however contrite I feel," he wrote, "there is always a small voice that keeps saying 'nothing ventured, nothing gained'-well did I venture and I gained a wonderful time." In 1946, Philip wrote to the queen, who he nicknamed "Lilibeth," apologizing for inviting himself to Buckingham Palace. What Happens to the Queen's Beloved Dogs Now?.Queen Elizabeth II-Britain's Longest-Reigning Monarch-Dead at 96.Queen Elizabeth Was Never Destined for Throne-Until Crisis Changed Her Fate.His father, with whom Philip rarely spoke, stayed in France with his girlfriend and his son was left to be raised by his maternal grandmother in England.Įlizabeth is directly descended from Queen Victoria and Prince Albert through the succession of British monarchs from Kings Edward IV to George V and then her father, King George VI.Įlizabeth and Philip were separated during World War II while he served in the Royal Navy, but they kept in touch via letters. Philip's mother was institutionalized in a psychiatric facility in Switzerland before she returned to Greece and committed her life to charity. The young prince was born without a surname and his family was forced to flee to France in 1922 when his uncle, King Constantine I, had to relinquish his title. Princess Alice married Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and they welcomed Philip on June 10, 1921. It was their oldest daughter, Victoria, who would go on to give birth to Philip's mother, Princess Alice of Battenberg. The prince descended from one of the longest-reigning British monarchs via Victoria's second daughter and third child Princess Alice, who married Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse. They shared the same great-grandparents, the long-reigning monarch Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. They were married for more than 70 years. Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip mark their Diamond Wedding Anniversary on Novemat Broadlands in Hampshire, England.
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