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Potsdam (dpa / bb) - Georg Friedrich Prince of Prussia, great-great-grandson of the last German Emperor Wilhelm II, has shown himself shaken after the death of Prince Philip.

"The news of the death of Prince Philips hit me very much," he said on Friday in Potsdam on request.

“I especially adored him.

He was a great personality, but at the same time an approachable and warm-hearted person. "

Prince Philip, the husband of Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain, died on Friday at the age of 99 in Windsor, Great Britain.

The Duke of Edinburgh also had German roots.

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