AUSTRALIA owes much to the late Prince Philip, who was born about a hundred years ago on a dining room table in Corfu, prior to being smuggled out of Greece in a fruit crate. His parents were dysfunctional, his family had to live in exile, they had no money, and practicably speaking he became an orphan at a young age after his mother was scheduled and his father (who was a poor type) basically abandoned him and eloped with a series of mistresses.