Prince Philip Family Portrait [Alexandra, Queen Of Yugoslavia]

Prince Philip. A Family Portrait. Alexandra Queen of Yugoslavia. IN (Indianapolis), Bobbs-Merrill, 1959. 1st edition. Black and white photos. 256 pages. Hardcover with a good dustjacket with some soil, chipping and edge wear. Unclipped price of $5 in 1959 (today it would be $47.52). Now in a protective clear Mylar dustjacket cover. Text of book is very good with some foxing to inner boards and here and there on the pages. Somewhat uncommon in dustjacket and first printing. 1 copy only.

Alexandra of Yugoslavia (1921–1993) was the last Queen of Yugoslavia. She married King Peter II of Yugoslavia in 1944. Her autobiography, For a King's Love, was published in 1960, and this biography of her cousin Prince Philip in 1959. This is a memoir and biography about their growing up together.

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921-2021), was married to Queen Elizabeth II. He was born in Greece. In order to marry Elizabeth, he relinquished his Greek (and Danish) royal titles, became a naturalized British subject, and adopted his maternal grandparents' surname Mountbatten. He married Elizabeth on November 20, 1947. When the book was published, he had three, soon to be quite famous, children, as shown on the back of the book. Both Philip and Queen Elizabeth II are great-great-grandchildren of Queen Victoria, Elizabeth by descent from Victoria's eldest son, King Edward VII, and Philip by descent from Victoria's second daughter, Princess Alice. Both are also descended from King Christian IX of Denmark.