Prince Philip's 93rd birthday

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O marido de Lilibeth completa hoje 93  anos.

10 JUNE 2014

A naval officer and a gentleman known for his mischievous sense of humour, Prince Philip celebrates his 93rd birthday on Tuesday 10 June. 

The doughty royal patriarch refuses to slow down and still does his own driving - as his son Prince Charles revealed last week, admitting: "I'm always worried".The Prince has been by the Queen's side since 1947

Charles told of his concern as he accompanied his parents on a three-day state visit to France to mark the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings.

His father also has a packed agenda this week. On Tuesday, Philip will help The Queen host a Buckingham Palace garden party for 8,000 guests.Last week the former WWII naval officer travelled to Germany to salute D-Day heroes

The following day he will preside over a Duke of Edingburgh awards dinner for the scheme he founded in 1956 to encourage young people to take up outdoors activities and other challenges.

Then the monarch's husband travels to present campaign medals in Fallingbostel, Germany in his role as Royal Colonel, of The Highlanders, Fourth Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland.On Thursday he is in Germany to hand out campaign medals

Friday will involve an engagement at an outdoor education centre in Sussex - before the week ends with Trooping the Colour, which is the Queen's official birthday parade, on Saturday. 
Then, on June 16, the royal couple will take part in the Order of the Garter service at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. Next week is also Royal Ascot, one of their favourite dates in the horseracing calendar. His pet name for the Queen is reportedly "sausage". Photo: © Getty Images Filipe e a sua salsicha....

He gave up smoking the day before his marriage. (como o meu marido!)

When he married he had the equivalent of 12 pence in the bank.He designed a bracelet as his wedding present to the Queen. The stones came from a tiara owned by his mother.In 1952, in Kenya, he broke the news to his wife that her father George VI had died and she was now Queen. He spent the hours waiting for Prince Charles' birth in 1948 playing squash with his prviate secretary. He said of his first child: "He looks like a plum pudding!"When Princess Diana died in 1997, William and Harry were anxious about walking behind her coffin. 

Their grandfather thought they would regret it later if they didn't and told the young Princes: "If you like, I'll walk with you".GQ magazine named him the 33rd best dressed man in the UKIn 2008 he asked his Savile Row tailor to alter a pair of trousers he first wore 52 years ago.Every day Prince Philip performs Canadian Air Force exercises, including sit-ups and stomach crunches.As a child, Prince Philip spent seven years in France living near Paris with his uncle. On a state visit in 2008, then French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy marvelled at his 'impeccable French'.Since he founded the Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme in 1956, more than four million young people from over 90 countries have taken part, testing their physical fitness and meeting community challenges. Prince Philip has visited more than 170 countries, made more than 5,000 speeches and today is patron, president or member of around 780 charities and organisations.It has been reported that he has turned down a state funeral, and wants a smaller service with a military theme at St George's Chapel, Windsor. He will be buried at Frogmore House, where Victoria and Albert are interred.He first met the Queen, then Princess Elizabeth, (right) at the wedding of Princess Marina of Greece and the Duke of Kent in 1934. For her, aged only eight, it was the beginning of what would become the love of her life.