Take A Look At The Dreamy Temple Style Church On Corfu Where Prince Philip Was Baptized Into The Greek Orthodox Church
Following his birth into the Greek royal family in on June 10, 1921, the future Duke of Edinburgh has baptized a Greek Orthodox Christian the following October in the Church of St. George at the Old Fortress on Corfu. (Coincidentally, his funeral will take place in St. George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle this Saturday.) Doesn’t it look dreamy? The name that appears on Philip’s birth certificate is ‘Philippos.’ He spent the first two years of his life in the 19th-century neoclassical villa of Mon Repo, but when he was two years old he and his family were exiled from Greece, with Philip famously being transported in an orange crate onto the ship that would take them way....