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English: Coat of Arms of Philip Mountbatten (born 1921) granted in 1947 to Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark (Sir Philip Mountbatten). The coat of arms was considered 'unsatisfactory' and was replaced by a new one granted in 1949. In 1947 the Prince was made Duke of Edinburgh, Earl of Merioneth and Baron Greenwich by King George VI, he later married HRH Princess Elizabeth, the Heiress Presumptive to the British and Commonwealth thrones. The coat of arms represents his lineage as a Prince of Greece and Denmark on his paternal side and his descent from Queen Victoria, the Grand Dukes of Hesse, and the Battenberg (or Mountbatten) family on his maternal side.
“ Azure a cross Argent (Greece) surmounted by the inescutcheon of the Royal arms of Denmark as borne by Christian IX (Denmark), and over all in the first quarter an inescutcheon of the arms of Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse (daughter of Queen Victoria), the whole surrounded by the Garter; for a crest, upon a coronet of a son of the sovereign Proper, the royal helm Or, upon which issuant from a ducal coronet Or, a plume of five ostrich feathers alternately Sable and Argent (Battenberg); Mantling Or and ermine; for Supporters, sinister, a representation of Hercules girt about the loins with a lion skin, crowned with a chaplet of oak leaves, holding in the dexter hand a club Proper (Greece and Denmark), dexter, a lion queue fourchée ducally crowned Or (Grand Duchy of Hesse) and gorged with a naval coronet Azure; Motto ’God Is My Help’. ”
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  • Coat of arms of Philip Mountbatten in 1947
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    Shield of arms of Prince Philip from 1947 to 1949
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