AHC: Prime Minister Philip Mountbatten

Your challenge is, with a PoD after 10th June 1921, to make Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark - the future Philip Mountbatten, and eventually Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh - the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Bonus points if you can do it with a PoD after 20th November 1947.
 
if that happened he wouldn't of become prince philip, at least not as long as premiership lasted. He would of had to chose either husband of the queen or first minister.
 
if that happened he wouldn't of become prince philip, at least not as long as premiership lasted. He would of had to chose either husband of the queen or first minister.
He was born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, gave up the titles when he got engaged, and became Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh when he got married. So he was only not a prince for a year and a half.

Of course, even if you avoid the marriage to Princess Elizabeth, it would be extremely awkward to have a foreign prince as Prime Minister. And, if you avoid that marriage, you still have his naval career to contend with - he showed every sign of being an excellent naval officer and carried on with it as long as it remained compatible with his royal duties.

Therein lies the challenge - he'd be about the right age in the 1970s or early 1980s, but you need to set the butterflies flapping much earlier.
 
He was born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, gave up the titles when he got engaged, and became Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh when he got married. So he was only not a prince for a year and a half.

Of course, even if you avoid the marriage to Princess Elizabeth, it would be extremely awkward to have a foreign prince as Prime Minister. And, if you avoid that marriage, you still have his naval career to contend with - he showed every sign of being an excellent naval officer and carried on with it as long as it remained compatible with his royal duties.

Therein lies the challenge - he'd be about the right age in the 1970s or early 1980s, but you need to set the butterflies flapping much earlier.

Actually he didn't become a british prince until 1957. And if he would of went into politics he would of had to renounce his rights to the greek and danish throne too. He was a foreign prince but he had always been a citizen of britain by the Sophia Naturalization Act 1705, even though he got naturalized, which was unnecessary but probably symbolic, or they were just unsure of the law.

He doesn't marry Elizabeth continues in his naval career becoming a captain or admiral, and then as a commoner joins the conservative party and slowly gains power until he become party leader. I do not know how charismatic he is or his political acumen but if he has those things, there is nothing stopping him from becoming pm except luck and opportunity.
 
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