Name | Edward Antony Richard Louis (Mountbatten-Windsor) [1] | |
Title | H.R.H. Prince | |
Suffix | Duke of Edinburgh | |
Born | 10 March 1964 | Buckingham Palace, London, England [1] |
Gender | Male | |
Education | Gordonstoun School, Elgin, Moray, Scotland [1] | |
Education | Jesus College, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England [1] | |
Decoration | Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (G.C.V.O.) [1] | |
Decoration | Royal Knight Companion of the Order of the Garter (K.G.) [1] | |
Hereditary Title | 1st Earl of Wessex [U.K., 1999] | |
Hereditary Title | 1st Viscount Severn [U.K., 1999] | |
Hereditary Title | Duke of Edinburgh [U.K., 2023] | |
Hereditary Title | 10 March 2019 | |
1st Earl of Forfar [U.K., 2019] | ||
Person ID | I124 | British Peerage & Gentry |
Last Modified | 9 May 2023 |
Father | H.R.H. The Prince Philip (Mountbatten), Duke of Edinburgh, b. 10 June 1921, Mon Repos, Corfu, Greece , d. 9 April 2021, Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England (Age 99 years) | |
Mother | H.M. Elizabeth II Alexandra Mary (Windsor), Queen of the United Kingdom, b. 21 April 1926, London, England , d. 8 Sept. 2022, Balmoral Castle, Crathie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland (Age 96 years) | |
Married | 20 Nov. 1947 | Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England [1] |
Family ID | F2 | Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Family | Sophie Helen Rhys-Jones, b. 20 Jan. 1965, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England (Age 59 years) | |||||
Married | 19 June 1999 | St. George's Chapel, Windsor, Berkshire, England [1] | ||||
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Last Modified | 27 Dec. 2017 | |||||
Family ID | F88 | Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Heraldry | Arms of H.R.H. Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex Quarterly, 1st and 4th Gules three lions passant guardant in pale Or armed and langued Azure (for England), 2nd quarter Or a lion rampant within a double tressure flory-counter-flory Gules (for Scotland), 3rd quarter Azure a harp Or stringed Argent (for Ireland), with over all a label of three points Argent the central point charged with an Tudor rose, the escutcheon ensigned by a coronet of a child of the Sovereign, the whole surrounded by the Garter, for a crest on a coronet of his rank, thereon a lion statant guardant Or crowned of the same coronet charged with a label as in the arms, for supporters, dexter a lion rampant guardant Or crowned by the same coronet, sinister a unicorn Argent armed, crined and unguled Proper, gorged with the same coronet, attached thereto a chain affixed thereto passing between the forelegs and reflexed over the back also Or, both charged on the shoulder with a label as in the arms. | |
Shield of Arms of H.R.H. Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex Quarterly, 1st and 4th Gules three lions passant guardant in pale Or armed and langued Azure (for England), 2nd quarter Or a lion rampant within a double tressure flory-counter-flory Gules (for Scotland), 3rd quarter Azure a harp Or stringed Argent (for Ireland), with over all a label of three points Argent the central point charged with an Tudor rose. | ||
Impaled Arms of T.R.H. The Earl and Countess of Wessex Quarterly, 1st and 4th, Gules three lions passant guardant in pale Or armed and langed Azure, 2nd Or a lion rampant Gules armed and langued Azure within a double tressure flory counterflory of the second, 3rd Azure a harp Or stringed Argent, the whole differenced with a label of three points Argent with the central point charged with a Tudor rose; impaled with a shield quarterly Gules and Azure a lion rampant regardant within an orle Or (for RHYS-JONES). |
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