4) The Duke of Edinburgh married the future queen at Westminster Abbey in 1947 when she was 21 and he was 26.
5) He served in the Royal Navy throughout World War II. His military career ended when his wife became Queen Elizabeth II. This was after the death of her father, King George VI, in 1952.
Queen Elizabeth’s husband Prince Philip dies at 99
6) Philip retired from public life in 2017, after 65 years of service. During that period, he conducted more than 22,000 solo engagements and delivered nearly 5,500 speeches.
7) Just like his wife, Queen Elizabeth, Philip also loves driving. He has been pictured behind the wheels of both Land Rover Discovery and Freelander SUVs.
8) In 2016, Philip, then 95 year old drove Barack Obama and his wife Michelle to lunch in his deep blue Range Rover. The Queen also joined them in the cruise.
9) The Range Rover SUV used in this historic trip was later sold in 2018 for 24 per cent of its original price of £105,080.
10) In 2019, Prince Philip walked free from the wreckages of his flipped Land Rover Freelander after the SUV he was driving collided with a Kia carrying two women and a baby.
11) A day after the crash, a replacement Land Rover Freelander, was delivered to the Prince Philip. He was even spotted driving without a seatbelt 48 hours after car crash.
12) The accident later forced him to give up his drivers-license at the age of 97 after it became clear that he could be charged over it.