Mon Repos Estate

Mon Repos is a neoclassical villa set in extensive gardens on the Palaiopolis peninsula south of Corfu Town, built in 1831 as a summer residence for the British Lord High Commissioners. After the British handover in 1864 it became a Greek royal summer palace, and it was here that Prince Philip (later Duke of Edinburgh, husband of Queen Elizabeth II) was born in 1921.

The villa now houses a museum of the history of ancient Corfu (Corcyra), with archaeological finds from the peninsula going back to the Bronze Age. The grounds contain the ruins of two archaic temples (Hera and Kardaki), and walking the estate gives a better sense of the ancient topography than any museum can. The gardens are peaceful and largely overlooked by visitors staying in Corfu Town.

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A story
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh was born at Mon Repos on 10 June 1921. The Greek royal family had been deposed, restored, and deposed again; the house was in use as a royal summer residence when his mother, Princess Alice of Battenberg, gave birth to him on the dining room table. The family left Greece shortly after, and Philip did not return to Corfu until his 80s. The bedroom where he was born is one of the rooms on display in the museum.