21 Facts About Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark

Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark was a grandson of King Christian IX of Denmark and the father of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark was a prince of Greece and Denmark, both by virtue of his patrilineal descent.

Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark was exiled for a second time in 1922, and spent most of the rest of his life in France.

Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark had seen neither of them since 1939.

Prince Andrew was born at the Tatoi Palace just north of Athens on 2 February 1882, the fourth son of George I of Greece.

Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark was in the line of succession to the Greek and more distantly to the Danish throne.

Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark attended cadet school and staff college at Athens, and was given additional private tuition in military subjects by Panagiotis Danglis, who recorded that he was "quick and intelligent".

Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark "became quite friendly" with fellow student Theodore Pangalos, the future Greek dictator.

In 1902, Prince Andrew met Princess Alice of Battenberg during his stay in London on the occasion of the coronation of Edward VII, who was his uncle-by-marriage and her grand-uncle.

Prince and Princess Andrew had five children, all of whom later had children of their own.

In 1914, Andrew held honorary military posts in both the German and Russian empires, as well as Prussian, Russian, Danish and Italian knighthoods.

Constantine was restored to the throne, and Andrew was reinstated in the army, this time as a major-general.

Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark was ordered to attack the Turkish positions, which he considered a desperate move little short "of ill-concealed panic".

Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark was placed on leave for two months, until he was transferred to the Supreme Army Council.

The Greek defeat in Asia Minor in August 1922 led to the 11 September 1922 Revolution, during which Prince Andrew was arrested, court-martialed, and found guilty of "disobeying an order" and "acting on his own initiative" during the battle of the previous year.

In 1930, Andrew published a book entitled Towards Disaster: The Greek Army in Asia Minor in 1921, in which he defended his actions during the Battle of the Sakarya, but he essentially lived a life of enforced retirement, despite only being in his forties.

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Andrew's three surviving sons-in-law fought on the German side: Prince Christoph of Hesse was a member of the Nazi Party and the Waffen-SS; Berthold, Margrave of Baden, was invalided out of the Wehrmacht in 1940 after an injury in France; Prince Gottfried of Hohenlohe-Langenburg served on the Eastern Front and was dismissed after the 20 July plot.

For five years, Andrew saw neither his wife nor his son.

Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark died in the Hotel Metropole, Monte Carlo, Monaco, of heart failure and arteriosclerosis in the closing months of the war in Europe.

Prince Philip and then-private secretary, Mike Parker, travelled to Monte Carlo to collect items belonging to his father from Andree de La Bigne; among these items: a signet ring which the Prince wore from then onwards, an ivory shaving brush he took to using, and some clothes that he had altered to fit him.