Prince Philip [antikvár]

cilapter one ALICE AND ANDREA 1 If I had been born a boy, I should have been H.R.H. Prince Philip of Greece: such was the name and title which my young father, H.M. King Alexander I, chose for me only a month or two before he died. But it was sadly not to be. I was born a posthumous Royal Princess, and just eleven weeks later my great-aunt Alice and great-uncle Andrea, T.R.H. Prince and Princess Andrew of Greece, gave the name "Philip" to their new-born son in affectionate token to my father's memory. To a large degree we share the same heredity, Philip and I. We are both great-great-grandcliildren of H.M. Queen Victoria. We are both descended from that William George of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksberg-Beck, Prince of Denmark, who ascended the throne of the Hellenes as King George I. Both of us owe our very breath to the same distant loves of the forgotten long ago. There is this difference, that Philip was born to a generation earlier than mine, although we are the same age. H.M. King Constantine of Greece was my grandfather, though to Philip he was an uncle, the brother of Andrea. Yet we both swam at the same time in the limbo of babyhood; we both chirped together in our prams in the sunlight of Greece. Indeed, we both shared the same pram.