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On this day 82 years ago, the first photographs of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip together were taken at Dartmouth Naval College on 22 July 1939. (and the rest is history🤍)

Elizabeth recalled her first meeting with Philip in a letter shortly before they were married on 20 November 1947:

“The first time I remember meeting Philip was at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth in July 1939, just before the war. (We may have met before at the Coronation or the Duchess of Kent’s wedding, but I don’t remember.) I was 13 years of age and he was 18, a cadet just due to leave. He joined the Navy at the outbreak of war, and I only saw him very occasionally when he was on leave - I suppose about twice in three years. Then when his uncle and aunt, Lord and Lady Mountbatten were away, he spent various weekends with us at Windsor. Then he went to the Pacific and Far East for 2 years.”

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On this day 82 years ago the then Princess Elizabeth knowingly met her future husband, Prince Philip, for the first time.

Years later, as they tried to recall this occasion, Prince Philip was heard affectionately joking with the Queen. “You were so shy,” he said, “I couldn’t get a word out of you.”

And the rest is history.

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1946 press be like: Do you hear the wedding bells ringing? Princess Elizabeth was spotted spending the holiday at Balmoral with rumored “beau” Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, along with The Royal Family.

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The coloured banner gif is from The Queen's 1996 Christmas speech filmed at Sandringham. There's also a cute part where Philip opens the door of the house for her🥺❤

HOLD ON THEY LOOK SO GOOD AAAA MY HEART

Thanks anon!!! 🤗💖

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“In 1948, when Prince Philip wanted a miniature portrait of Princess Elizabeth painted at the time of her wedding, Mike had been directed towards a brilliant Australian painter called Stella Marks. Her portrait of the Princess, a watercolour on ivory, was a great success and became one of Prince Philip’s most treasured possessions.”

Step Aside for Royalty: Treasured Memories of the Royal Household by Eileen Parker

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“Prince Philip and the Princess never discussed their private life. Nor did they betray, except in the most unguarded moments, those natural signs of affection between husband and wife. I saw an occasional peck on the cheek but spontaneous affection was seldom expressed, only the occasional warm glance between them. They were absolutely determined to keep Private separate from Public. And wherever two or more of the Household were gathered together it was Public.”

Step Aside for Royalty: Treasured Memories of the Royal Household by Eileen Parker

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“Every year on his wife’s birthday, Prince Philip would have Mike arrange delivery of a large bouquet of white flowers, preferably lilies of the valley. Prince Philip was also good at making ingenious suggestions for jewellery. On his foreign tours, he would sometimes bring back stones to be set to his own ideas by craftsmen at Garrard’s, the royal jewellers. These he would give to his wife as birthday surprises. She in turn might have a dress or a whole outfit created to set off a well-loved piece of jewellery.”

Step Aside for Royalty: Treasured Memories of the Royal Household by Eileen Parker

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“In 1930, when Philip was nine and Elizabeth was four, Philip’s middle sister, Cecile — the one who died in an aeroplane crash in 1937 — was engaged to be married. From her sanatorium, near Lake Tegel, in the north of Berlin, Philip’s mother, Princess Alice, sent her daughter a letter of congratulation and advice. ‘For you know, dear child,’ she wrote, ‘each woman manages & directs her married life herself, just as she would control herself in a profession if she had one & so you see when a girl marries a decent boy, she makes her own happiness with her own judgement and self-control. No marriage entered into, in that spirit, with the most dissimilar characters even, ought to be a failure. A little patience in the first years & one has an enduring happy love & friendship for life & which unlike ordinary friendships will be just as fresh when you are old.’

When they were old, when the tide was in, I sensed that Philip and Elizabeth — as man and wife, as consort and queen, as the best of friends — were closer than they had ever been.”

Philip: The Final Portrait by Gyles Brandreth

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“Let me get closer”

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What was the dress that Prince Philip loved that he said the Queen was good enough to eat?

the one she used for prince andr*w’s wedding

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As we often read about Philip being protective/supportive of Lilibet and talking about her, is there any instance where she is heard talking fondly about him (ik she was extremely private) or yk being supportive of him or something?

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“In 1997, at the time of her fiftieth wedding anniversary and in the aftermath of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in a speech at the Banqueting House in Whitehall the Queen acknowledged that it was sometimes difficult to fully understand ‘the message’ of the people, ‘obscured as it can be by deference, rhetoric or the conflicting currents of public opinion’. She said, ‘I have done my best, with Prince Philip’s constant love and help, to interpret it correctly through the years of our marriage and of my reign.’”

Philip: The Final Portrait by Gyles Brandreth

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the holy trinity!

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