Fun fact: Both Prince Philip https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇬🇧" title="Flag of United Kingdom" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of United Kingdom"> and Queen Sofía https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇪🇸" title="Flag of Spain" aria-label="Emoji: Flag of Spain"> were born Prince/Princess of Greece and Denmark. They both come from the Greek branch of the Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg dynasty.
The couple got married at Westminster Abbey on 20 November 1947 https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👰🏻" title="Woman with veil (light skin tone)" aria-label="Emoji: Woman with veil (light skin tone)">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤵🏼" title="Person in tuxedo (medium light skin tone)" aria-label="Emoji: Person in tuxedo (medium light skin tone)">He was made HRH the Duke of Edinburgh, Earl of Merioneth, Baron Greenwich by King George VI.
He became Prince Consort when his wife acceded to the throne in 1952 https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👑" title="Crown" aria-label="Emoji: Crown">
She married Spain’s Infante Juan Carlos on 14 May 1962 in Athens https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👰🏻" title="Woman with veil (light skin tone)" aria-label="Emoji: Woman with veil (light skin tone)">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤵🏻" title="Person in tuxedo (light skin tone)" aria-label="Emoji: Person in tuxedo (light skin tone)">Before the wedding she converted from Greek Orthodoxy to Roman Catholicism and thus relinquished her rights to the Greek throne.
As Spain was a dictatorship at the time, the couple never had the titles of Prince and Princess of Asturias, traditionally given to the heir apparent of the Spanish throne. Instead, Infante Juan Carlos was given the title “Prince of Spain” by the Spanish dictator Franco in 1969.
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