Prince Philip's Throwback Photos Released On His 99th Birthday Prove His Ageless Handsomeness

Jun 10, 2020 by apost team

Prince Philip, the husband of Queen Elizabeth II's for more than seven decades, celebrates his 99th birthday on Wednesday. There will be little public fanfare to mark the occasion as Britain continues lockdown amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, will spend his 99th privately at Windsor Castle where he and Queen Elizabeth have been staying during Britain's coronavirus lockdown. That means the rest of the royal family will have to send their best wishes to him virtually.

"I haven't seen my father for a long time. He's going to be 99 next week," heir-to-the-throne Prince Charles and the oldest of his four children told Sky News last week. "Facetime is all very well ... You really want to give people a hug."

In honor of his 99th birthday, the palace released a series of throwback photos on Instagram, which show the Duke of Edinburgh throughout the years. Clearly, time has been kind to the handsome royal.

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In the past, his birthday would be celebrated with gun salutes in London. But with social gatherings banned, the Queen felt it would be inappropriate for such royal ceremonies to go ahead. She had canceled such tributes for her own birthday in April for the first time in her 68-year reign.

Buckingham Palace released a new photograph of the royal couple on their Twitter account to celebrate Philip’s birthday, taken last week at the quadrangle inside Windsor Castle.

On November 20, 1947, Elizabeth married Philip, who is formerly a prince of Greece and Denmark, at Westminster Abbey. The couple had known each other for quite a few years before their marriage as they first met back in 1934. After their wedding, Philip and Elizabeth had three sons, Charles, Prince of Wales, Prince Andrew, Duke of York, and Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, as well as one daughter, Anne, Princess Royal.

Their marriage happens to be the longest of any British sovereign, as they have been married for 72 years so far and The Queen is still more than fond of her husband, in an emotional tribute on their golden wedding anniversary she revealed:

"He has, quite simply, been my strength and stay all these years."

One lesser-known trait of the almost-centenarian is his unorthodox sense of humor. The Duke of Edinburgh is known to make the odd unconventional comment or joke now and again.

On one occasion when meeting educational activist Malala Yousafzai (who was sadly shot in 2012 for standing up for education for women), he said: "[Children] go to school because their parents don't want them in the house." Malala understood his sense of humor and laughed at the joke, but some of his more unsavory anecdotes have got him in trouble in the past.

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