Before Princess Elizabeth became Queen Elizabeth, she married the handsome foreign Prince Philip of Greece, who also happens to be his third cousin. According to Sally Bedell Smith biography Elizabeth the QueenPhilip came from a tumultuous background despite his lineage. Born in 1921 on the island of Corfu, he moved to Paris at the age of 1 with his parents, Alice Marie and Prince Andrew of Greece. By the age of 8 years, that he had gone to England to study in a boarding school. With generous good looks and confidence, Philip made his way to England with the help of the royal family. He would later be invited to dine with the royal family, and that when Elizabeth according to the reports, I fell in love with him. During World War II, Philip served in the Mediterranean and the Pacific, and that he and Elizabeth wrote to each of the other letters. By 1946, he was back in London and make regular visits to Buckingham Palace. During that Summer, spent a month in the royal family’s Balmoral Estate, where he proposed. Their wedding was held in Westminster The abbey of November. 20, 1947.
During their 70 years of marriage, most of them during the reign of Elizabeth as the monarch, Prince Philip has been as constant as the queen herself, although he is a bit more controversial, making a few insensitive gaffes. We’re going to look back on the photos of Prince Philip over the years, after seeing the facts about the British royal family every diehard fan should know.
