Prince Philip had been married to the British Queen Elizabeth since 1947 and was the son of Princess Alice of Battenberg and Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark
Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank’s first-born child is named after Prince Philip and the great-great-great-great-grandfathers of both parents: Prince Albert and Reverend Edward Hawke Brooksbank.
So who are the men who inspired the name August Philip Hawke Brookesbank?
Prince Philip
Born: June 10, 1921 (Age 99)
Prince Philip had been married to the British Queen Elizabeth since 1947 and was the son of Princess Alice of Battenberg and Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark.
He was born into two royal families but was banished from Greece at a young age. He attended schools in France, Germany and the UK before joining the Royal Navy in 1939 at the age of 18.
Prince Philip, born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, met the then Princess Elizabeth in 1934 and the couple began corresponding in July 1939. After the war, Philip received permission from King George VI to marry her.
Before the engagement was announced in July 1947, the prince left his Greek and Danish titles and became a British citizen. He took his maternal grandparents’ surname – Mountbatten.
He left active military service after Elizabeth became Queen in 1952, after attaining the rank of Commander, and was formally appointed a British Prince in 1957.
Prince Philip and Elizabeth had four children: Charles, Prince of Wales; Anne, Princess Royal; Prince Andrew, Duke of York; and Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex.
He is now patron, president or member of over 780 organizations and is called the Duke of Edinburgh. He retired from royal duties on August 2, 2017, aged 96, after completing 22,219 solo assignments since 1952.
Prince Philip was known for regularly sticking his foot in his mouth by swearing during royal visits. In 2015, he told a photographer to ‘just take the f *** ing picture’ during a photo call at the RAF Club.
Queen Victoria’s husband, Albert, the Prince Consort, was born in the Saxon Duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld to parents who had good connections with the ruling princes of Europe
Prince Albert (Franz Albert August Karl Emanuel)
Born: August 26, 1819 Died: December 14, 1861
Queen Victoria’s husband, Albert, the Prince Consort, was born in the Saxon Duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld to parents who had good connections with the ruling princes of Europe.
At the age of 20, he married his cousin Victoria, and the couple had nine children together: Victoria; Albert ‘Bertie’; Alice; Alfred; Helena; Louise; Arthur; Leopold; and Beatrice.
During their courtship phase, Victoria wrote: ‘[Albert] is extraordinarily handsome; his hair is about the same color as mine; his eyes are large and blue, and he has a beautiful nose and a very sweet mouth with fine teeth; but the charm of his face is his expression, which is glorious. She proposed to him on October 15, 1839.
He soon developed a reputation for supporting public causes, including educational reform and the global abolition of slavery. Queen Victoria entrusted him to take care of the household, office and estates.
The prince developed the constitutional monarchy by convincing his wife to be less partial in her dealings with parliament, and when he died at the age of 42, Queen Victoria mourned for the rest of her life.
The Reverend Edward Hawke Brooksbank
Born: December 9, 1789 Died: August 5, 1883
Reverend Edward Brooksbank held the office of Justice of the Peace for the West Riding, Yorkshire, and lived at Healaugh Manor in Yorkshire.
The Reverend of Tickhill first married a Hannah Heywood who gave birth to his three children, but died in 1846, aged 58. The Reverend then married Mary Parker on December 5, 1848.
He graduated from Cambridge University with a Master of Arts (MA) and died at the age of 93.
Prince Augustus Frederick
Prince Augustus Frederick (pictured) was the sixth son and ninth child of King George III
Born: January 27, 1773 Died: April 21, 1843
Prince Augustus Frederick was the sixth son and ninth child of King George III.
While traveling through Rome, he met Lady Augusta Murray and the couple married secretly on April 4, 1793. They married a second time without revealing their full names at St George’s, Hanover Square, Westminster, on December 5, 1793.
Both marriages took place without his father’s consent. Therefore, the marriage was annulled in August 1794 on the grounds that it violated the Royal Marriages Act 1772.
He stayed with Lady Augusta until 1801, when he received a parliamentary stipend of £ 12,000 and the couple broke up. Lady Augusta was given custody of their children Augustus Frederick d’Este and Augusta Emma d’Este. She received maintenance of £ 4,000 a year.
A year after Lady Augusta’s death, the Duke of Sussex married Lady Cecilia Letitia Buggin a second time on May 2, 1831, again without the consent of the monarch.
She was never recognized as the Duchess of Sussex, but was made Duchess of Inverness in 1840 by Queen Victoria.
Prince Augustus was Queen Victoria’s favorite uncle and gave her away at her wedding to Prince Albert.