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Click here for Full Issue of EIR Volume 21, Number 50, December 16, 1994 �TIillDocUlllentation Prince Philip: 'doge' of the real Fourth Reich by Scott Thompson and JeffreySteinberg Ever since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, leading British of global genocide today, the vast majority of Americans spokesmen have been hysterically warning of the danger of a know next to nothing about Prince Philip and the worldwide "Fourth Reich" emerging from a reunified and economically "Allgemeine SS" that he coQ.'lmands. Few, for example, powerful Germany. Then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatch­ know that Prince Philip is a member of the royal household er, her Transportation Minister Nicholas Ridley, and old of Greece, and might have bee� king himself, had it not been Fabian propagandist Conor Cruise O'Brien were for years for the fact that all of his sisters had married leading Nazi the most notorious of the Fourth Reich hysterics. officials or collaborators duriqg the 1930s, and the scandal Serious students of 19th- and 20th-century history, how­ could have thrown postwar (jireece into the hands of the ever, should have figured out long ago that this British invo­ communists. Nor is it widely lqnown that Philip's father, the cation of Hitlerian imagery was a hoax, aimed at concealing seventh son of one of thekings of Greece, had been convicted Britain's longstanding geopolitical fear of a continental Eur­ of treason and desertionin batt1ie, and his life had been spared asian economic alliance, with Germany serving as an East­ only because of an 11th-hour p,yoffby Britain's most notori­ West bridge. ous arms dealer. The fact that an economically sound Germany is not syn­ The Duke of Edinburgh is isuch an active and important onymous with a "Fourth Reich" does not mean, however, figure in current world affairs tJtat the editors of EIR decided that there is no danger of a resurgence of Hitlerian genocide to assemble this documentaryi profile of Philip to give our today. On the contrary, as EIR documented in its Oct. 28 readers a glimpse into one of the world's largest and most Special Report, "The Coming Fall of the House of Windsor," powerful dysfunctional families. Much of the materialcomes a shadowy association called the Club of the Isles is today fromtwo biographies critical of PrincePhilip, one by Charles dedicated to "culling the human herd," i.e., reducing the Higham and one by John Park4r, and from interviews with a human population, to below 1 billion people over the next number of British scholars a� political figures. For those two to three generations. Outfits like the World Wide Fund interested in looking deeper into the world of the Windsors for Nature (WWF, formerly the World Wildlife Fund) and and the Club of the Isles (what BertrandRussell referredto as the " 1001 Nature Trust" are at the center of this effort. "the really high-minded peopl¢" and what England's Queen The headquarters of the Club of the Isles-today's Fourth Victoria called "the mob of royalty"), we have appended a Reich-is not to be found in Berlin or Bonn. It is in England, bibliography of some of the most revealing texts on these at Windsor Castle. Today's "Hitler" is His Majesty Prince topics. Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh , royal consort, inter­ national president of the WWF, the de facto chief executive An arbitrary royal succession officer for the Club of the Isles, and a man who has been The world of European royalty is convoluted indeed. In quoted on more than one occasion expressing the wish to be 1833, as part of the Holy Alliance that ruledEurope from the reincarnated as a "deadly virus" in order to kill as many defeat of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna, the Royal people as possible. House of Bavaria, the Wittelsqachs, were granted, at British Despite his importance as one of the leading proponents urging, sovereignty over G�ce, which had been severed 68 Documentation EIR December 16, 1994 © 1994 EIR News Service Inc. All Rights Reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission strictly prohibited. fromthe Ottoman Empire. The son of King Ludwig of Bavar­ against Turkey, but was defeated by! Kemal Ataturk. In the ia became King Otto I of the Hellenes. Handing over the course of that war, Prince Andrew s�owed his true colors. Greek throne to a Bavarian was a stunning act, if for no other reason than the arbitrary nature of the arrangement. Retreat on the Baghdad Railway But what the British give, the British take away. In 1862, With older brother Constantine, now on the throne of as the result of a falling out with the increasingly powerful Greece, Prince Andrew was made a ijeutenant general in the British Crown, Otto I was dumped from the Greek throne, Greek Army and placed in charge of �e Second Army Corps. despite his popularity among the Greek people. During the war with the Turks, he �evised a reckless and A talent search was launched by London to finda replace­ incompetent scheme to march his tr�ps for 15 days across a ment for the Bavarians and, eventually, a delegation was desert. By the time they engaged the Turks, Andrew's troops dispatched to Copenhagen to confer with the Danish king, were exhausted. Some 40,000 Greek troops were killed in Frederick 11. The ambitious Frederick II was at that moment the battle, which only ended when Andrew fled aboard the negotiating the arranged marriages of two of his nieces, Alex­ Baghdad Railway with what remained of his corps, despite andra and Dagmar, and the prospect of being given the throne orders from the commanding general to hold his flank. of Greece was not to be turned down. Frederick II threatened Andrew's military performance, and the Greek defeat his nephew and designated heir, Crown Prince Christian, marked another low point in the history of the ersatz Greek with execution if he refused to dispatch his son, Prince Wil­ royal family. The monarchy was overthrown in 1922 by a liam, to Athens. William, in 1862, became King George I of London-backed "Revolutionary Committee" under Ven­ Greece. Soon afterwards, William's sister Alexandra mar­ izelos, which promptly indicted Prince Andrew and the other ried Edward, Prince of Wales, who later became England's generals, charging them with treason. Andrew was also King Edward VII. Younger sister Dagmar married Czar charged with desertion. All the genetals were convicted and Alexander III and became the Czarina of Russia. sentenced to death; all but Andrew died. King Constantine When King George I married Grand Duchess Olga, was of no assistance, though. He had fled to Italy, taking granddaughter of Czar Nicholas I, in 1866, the Danish royals refuge under the protection of Benito Mussolini. It was the added 16 generations of royalty from the House of Old­ British monarchy-all firstand second cousins to the Danish­ enburg, three generations from the House of Schleswig-Hol­ turned-Greek royals-who interceded to save Prince stein-Sonderburg-Glucksberg-Beck, seven czars of Russia, Andrew's life. and six kings of Sweden to their very extensive family tree. Lord Curzon of the Roundtable qroup dispatched a Brit­ With all these arranged marriages, it is no surprise that ish warship, the HMS Calypso, to Athens, where Captain the current ruling couple of England, Queen Elizabeth II and Talbot, representative of the Vickel'$ Arms Company, paid Royal Consort Prince Philip, are second cousins. off Venizelos and the other "revoluqonaries" to let Andrew King George I and Queen Olga produced eight children, and his wife and children, including Prince Philip, leave. including Prince Andrew, the father of Prince Philip. The pennilessprince and his family s\UVivedon an allowance Andrew's oldest brother, Prince Constantine, married from the British Crown during their flight from Greece to Sophie, the sister of Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany, a move Rome to Paris. that made the powers behind the English throne nervous, particularly because it occurred on the eve of the British­ A pack of degenerates engineered First World War. Prince Philip of Hellene was born on June 10, 192 1, When Constantine became king of Greece in 19 12 after just about the very date that his fatl)er was committing his his father was assassinated by an "anarchist" in Salonika, he treasonous act. Prince Andrew had �arried Princess Alice of triedto remain neutral in World War I. This was unacceptable Battenberg, a member of the royal bouse of Hesse. Alice's to the British and the French, and an Anglo-French force parents, Prince Louis and Princess Victoria, had moved to invaded Greece. When several British troops were killed in England before her birth. Prince Louis actually was named the course of the invasion, Constantine was ousted as king. Britain's First Lord of the Admiralty, but was forced to resign The invasion had the backing of Greek Prime Minister that post on the eve of World War I �cause of his "scandal­ Eleutherios Venizelos, a British lackey, who promptly ar­ ous" Germanic family roots. To overeome this stigma, Prince ranged for Constantine's second son, Alexander, to be in­ Louis arbitrarily changed the famil� name to Mountbatten, stalled as king. Greece promptly joined the war against and was also anointed Marquess of ¥ilford Haven. Princess Germany. Alice's younger brother, Louis, became simply Lord Louis Alexander died in 1920 as the result of a monkey bite, Mountbatten, a.k.a. "Dickie" Mountbatten. inflicted by his gardener's rabid pet. Constantine and Sophie This severing of all Germanic lipks was not unusual at were returned to the Greek throne, but this time under the the time.

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