Royal expert Jennie Bond celebrates the Queen and Prince Philip's true love match
On 8 September 2022, Buckingham Palace announced that Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, died peacefully at the age of 96 at Balmoral.
Distant cousins – he had been born Philip, Prince of Greece and Denmark – they met a couple of times as children and the Queen was 13 when she is said to have become smitten by Philip who was then 18 and a dashing naval cadet. The backdrop was Dartmouth Royal Naval College. She was accompanying her parents – King George VI and Queen Elizabeth – on an official visit along with her sister, Margaret. Philip was asked to keep the two princesses entertained while the visit took place.
It wasn’t only his good looks that made him attractive."I think he was a little bit out of the ordinary compared to other aristocrats she would have met. Someone once said, whatever Prince Philip was, he certainly wasn’t boring. She could have married a member of the British aristocracy, but this was a man with a huge amount of character and just a little bit different.
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