One of the current events programs ran this story a couple of weeks ago.
Click on the link for the full-story-transcript, film, comments etc... but in a nutshell what it amounts to is that the Tanna people of Vanuatu "revere Prince Phillip as the human form of an ancestral spirit from the island, who, according to a prophecy, emerged from a volcano and travelled overseas to marry a queen."
http://www.sbs.com.au/dateline/story...ing-for-Philip