The tragic women who shaped Prince Philip: A mother who fled revolution and became a nun, a Nazi sister who named her son after Hitler and a plane crash that ‘profoundly shocked’ the schoolboy prince

The story of the Duke of Edinburgh’s family is as fascinating as it is tragic.

Born a Prince of Greece and Denmark, Philip – who passed away peacefully at Windsor Castle this morning aged 99 – was the fifth child and only son of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and his wife, Princess Alice of Battenberg, who welcomed her son on the dining table of a villa in Corfu.

Shortly after Prince Philip’s arrival, the royal family were exiled and, aged just 18 months, the future Duke of Edinburgh was bundled into a makeshift cot – an orange crate – as the family escaped on a British warship.

Well that was a colorful beginning.


Upsetting the Chinese, Indians and men with goatee beards: The Duke who often said what he shouldn’t (but the public loved him for it)

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Prince Philip has died aged 99, Buckingham Palace announces

Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth II’s husband, has died aged 99, Buckingham Palace has announced.

The prince married Princess Elizabeth in 1947, five years before she became Queen, and was the longest-serving royal consort in British history.

Prince Philip dead at 99: Queen announces with ‘deep sorrow’ that husband the Duke of Edinburgh ‘passed away peacefully at Windsor Castle’ this morning – three weeks after he finished 28-night hospital stay for infection and heart surgery

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UK: Over 130 imams and Islamic scholars urge Johnson to condemn showing of ‘blasphemous’ cartoons in school

This is absurd beyond belief, yet indicative of the level of anti-British ideology that circulates among these Muslim leaders in Britain. It is also alarming that these leaders are brazen enough to operate within the UK as if they were in Sharia-adherent Pakistan, with its infamous blasphemy laws.

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Three secret British jihadi brides in Al-Roj camp

At least three more British jihadi brides are staying in the same Syrian refugee camp as Shamima Begum – and each of them is trying to return to the UK.

After being found last week by The Mail on Sunday, the women described life in the ‘five-star’ Al-Roj camp where a reporter discovered a ‘hawala bank’ that delivers cash sent to jihadists by relatives and supporters overseas.

Under the UK Terrorism Act, it is illegal to send money abroad if the recipient has joined or aligned themselves with a proscribed terrorist group such as Isis. The offence carries a maximum sentence of 14 years.

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Rochdale grooming ringleader shops in town where he abused children SIX YEARS after he was supposed to be deported

Qari Abdul Rauf – rapes children

A CONVICTED grooming gang ringleader goes shopping in the town where he abused kids — despite being told he was going to be deported six years ago.

Qari Abdul Rauf was warned he would be kicked out of Britain after being jailed for his part in the Rochdale scandal, in which dozens of girls as young as 13 were assaulted or raped.

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At last, the myth of ‘institutional racism’ is collapsing

At last, the myth of ‘institutional racism’ is collapsing

No10’s review into racial disparities is a brilliant blow against the preposterous and divisive politics of identity.

The response to No10’s review into racial disparities in the UK has been truly disturbing. Labour, the radical left, the broadsheet press and the BBC — some of whose talking heads have spent the entire day looking and sounding bewildered — have reacted with horror to the suggestion that the UK is not actually a racist country. ‘What do you mean Brits aren’t a disgusting, hateful throng?’, the great and good have essentially cried. This could prove to be one of the most revealing moments in the contemporary culture wars.

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It’s all America’s fault – Naive Brits have been duped by its poisonous politics

…But then America was a country famous for its incredible generosity, the welcome it gave newcomers; once you crossed that ocean no king, tsar or Führer could bother you again. Many enjoyed similar welcomes; a friend of dad’s remembered arriving around the same time and being picked up by a New York taxi driver who told him in a broad Nu Yoik accent: “Don’t worry, son, Uncle Sam’s gonna look after you now.” He never forgot that.

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The Whistleblower – She exposed the grooming-gangs coverup in the UK, but the rapes go on.

Though not well known in the U.S., former cop Maggie Oliver is a household name in Britain, where she blew the whistle on official indifference to the so-called “grooming gangs” – that is, the Muslim rape crews that have victimized thousands of white girls in cities around England. A recent YouTube interview with Peter Whittle led me, belatedly, to her 1999 memoir, Survivors, and let me begin by saying this: however much you may know about the grooming gangs – and, in particular, about the years of shameless stonewalling by police and other authorities who were terrified of Muslim unrest – reading about it all from the point of view of a frustrated insider is a supremely enraging experience.

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The price of your cowardice

The price of your cowardice

The liberal elite’s failure to defend the Batley Grammar schoolteacher is a black mark against this nation.

The father of the Batley Grammar schoolteacher who was suspended for the supposedly blasphemous offence of showing his pupils an image of Muhammad has spoken to the Daily Mail. It makes for distressing reading. His son is an ‘emotional wreck’, he says. He ‘keeps breaking down and crying and says it’s all over for him’. Worse, he fears for his life. He fears for his family’s lives.

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The new Inquisition must never win: There is more at stake in the case of Batley Grammar than the fate of one teacher

Picture the scene: an idyllic summer landscape populated by those much-loved icons of goodwill, the Care Bears. These instantly recognisable figures, fluffy and colourful and surrounded by butterflies and tiny floating hearts, are indulging in a rare bout of mischief.

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Father of blasphemy row teacher says son can never return to his old life after death threats from Muslims over Muhammad cartoon

The father of the RE teacher at the centre of a blasphemy row after allegedly showing students a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad fears says his son fears he will be murdered and will never be able to return to his old life.

The teacher, in his 20s, who is not being named, has gone into hiding with his partner after receiving death threats.

Speaking exclusively to MailOnline, his father said: ‘My son keeps breaking down crying and says that it’s all over for him.

Every death cultist who showed up to protest should have been cuffed and immediately deported.

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It’s time liberals showed some spine and stopped pandering to zealots

It’s time liberals showed some spine and stopped pandering to zealots

We live in a free country — of course teachers should be allowed to show contentious cartoons

The first thing I did when I noticed the protests erupting outside Batley Grammar School was to check the calendar. It told me that it was 2021 — more than 500 years after the scientific revolution and 400 since the Enlightenment. And yet here was a teacher going into hiding for sharing a religious cartoon with his class, protesters demanding that he be sacked on the basis of theology. I couldn’t help thinking of Galileo in front of the Inquisition.

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Sharing the identity of a teacher who showed pupils cartoon of cult idol Muhammad could result in police action

Sharing the identity of a teacher who showed pupils an “offensive” cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad could result in police action, a watchdog has warned.

Protests were held outside Batley Grammar School, where the staff member was suspended after complaints.

Baroness Kishwer Falkner said making a teacher fear for their safety was “simply unacceptable”.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission chair said the school “ought to be trusted” to take action.

Diversity.

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We must stop capitulating to this intolerance

The Batley Grammar scandal reveals the depths of liberal cowardice.

A group of religious conservatives has managed to shut down a school for two days running, exact a grovelling apology from its headteacher, and have a teacher suspended. The teacher’s name has been circulated online, both by protesters and a local religious charity, forcing him into police protection.

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