Prince Philip

Queen Elizabeth II wore the British crown for 70 years, but she wore her wedding ring even longer.

She and Philip were touring the commonwealth and were in Kenya when she learned of her father’s passing. The next day, Philip became the duke of Edinburgh, earl of Merioneth, and Baron Greenwich of Greenwich in the County of London. "You can take it from me that the queen has the quality of tolerance in abundance." But the queen had a remedy for that. He swore to become "her liege man of life and limb, and of earthly worship." (Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images) He was Sir Philip Mountbatten — a knight of the garter, but no longer a prince. Pomp and circumstance befitting a princess lined the streets of London. Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) and Prince Philip make their way down the aisle of Westminster Abbey, London, on their wedding day, 20th November 1947. Both Elizabeth and Philip descend from Queen Victoria, their great-great-grandmother who married a German prince. Philip’s heritage was German, and the allied world had been distancing itself from German heritage since World War I. The "Prince Charming" trope is common in fairytales, but it was real life for her majesty.

The romance of Prince Philip of Greece and Princess Elizabeth of Britain sprang out of a summer encounter at the Royal Naval College in Dartmouth in 1939.

“And then, during the war, if I was here, I’d call in and have a meal. “I suppose one thing led to another. You see it’s difficult to visualise. “We used to correspond occasionally. Or I went to the theatre with them once, something like that. But the princess was entranced.

Following Queen Elizabeth II's passing, revisit her and Prince Philip's decades-long romance. From writing love letters to secretly getting engaged, ...

To mark their 50th anniversary in 1997, the queen praised her husband with a heartwarming tribute. "He is someone who doesn't take easily to compliments, but he has, quite simply, been my strength and stay all these years," she shared, per Vogue. The longtime pair, who were parents to [her husband of 73 years](https://www.eonline.com/news/848369/queen-elizabeth-ii-and-prince-philips-love-story-celebrate-the-royal-couples-73-years-of-marriage), [Prince Philip](https://www.eonline.com/news/prince_philip), passed away in April 2021. [Prince Charles](https://www.eonline.com/news/prince_charles), Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward, had an undeniable bond from the very beginning. [Queen Elizabeth ll](https://www.eonline.com/news/queen_elizabeth) [died at the age of 96](https://www.eonline.com/news/1307274/queen-elizabeth-ii-dead-at-96), sharing in a [Twitter statement](https://twitter.com/RoyalFamily/status/1567928275913121792?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet), "The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon."

Queen Elizabeth's first and only love, her husband Prince Philip. The couple were married for 73 years, the longest-running marriage of British royalty.

[Prince Philip](https://www.hola.com/us/tags/prince-philip/) was the only love of the monarch, a romance that overcame ups and downs of all kinds and that began when a young Elizabeth fell in love with the handsome blond young man who filled her with illusion, a relationship lasted for more aged 70 until the death of the Duke of Edinburgh on April 9, 2021. Today we remember the great love of Queen Elizabeth’s life. [Sign up to our newsletter](/us/newsletter/)and don’t miss a thing!

Queen Elizabeth II will be interred at Windsor Castle's King George VI Memorial Chapel, with the body of Prince Philip being moved to join her.

“We mourn profoundly the passing of a cherished Sovereign and a much-loved Mother. [died on Thursday at age 96](https://pagesix.com/2022/09/08/queen-elizabeth-ii-dead-at-96/) at [Balmoral Castle](https://pagesix.com/2022/09/08/what-balmoral-castle-meant-to-queen-elizabeth-ii/) in Scotland. [Up Next](https://pagesix.com/2022/09/08/joey-lawrence-and-samantha-cope-expecting-first-child-together/)

Queen Elizabeth II will be laid to rest next to her late husband Prince Philip at the King George VI memorial chapel at Windsor Castle.

From there, she will be taken to St. Elizabeth — the longest-reining monarch in British history — will be taken to Windsor Castle for a committal service ahead of her burial in the castle’s King George VI Memorial Chapel, according to the outlet. [will reportedly](https://nypost.com/2022/09/08/operation-london-bridge-what-happens-after-queen-elizabeths-death/) be brought to Edinburgh sometime Saturday to rest in the throne room of her palace, Holyroodhouse.

Queen Elizabeth II died Thursday afternoon at 96 years old. Prince Philip will be transferred to the King George VI memorial chapel next to his wife.

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Queen Elizabeth II will be joining her close family members after death. The 96-year-old monarch will rest in the King George VI memorial chapel alongside ...

"The King and The Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return to London tomorrow," the statement added. In a statement earlier today, Buckingham Palace said: "The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon." The 96-year-old monarch will rest in the King George VI memorial chapel alongside her father, George VI, he mother and sister Princess Margaret.

Duke of Edinburgh was said to be the only person to treat the Queen as 'simply another human being'

But in postwar Britain and with his sisters married to Nazis he would be a hard sell to the public. You can take it from me that the Queen has the quality of tolerance in abundance.” Sir John Colville wrote of Philip’s first visit to Balmoral as a serious suitor: “Lords Salisbury, Eldon and Stanley think him no gentleman, and in a sense they are right. It was July 1939, during a royal visit to the Royal Naval College in Dartmouth where he was a cadet, and he found himself charged with entertaining Princess Elizabeth, known as Lilibet, and her nine-year-old sister, Margaret. The establishment thought him a little “below the salt”. He shouted at her the way he shouted at others, and according to the biographer Sarah Bradford she was not averse to telling him: “Oh Philip. George VI was dismayed his daughter wanted to marry the first man she had met and thought her too young. Her brother, David Bowes-Lyon, dismissed him as “a German”. On a state visit to Australia in 1954, a cameraman waiting outside the royal couple’s chalet to film the Queen looking at koalas and kangaroos had his camera rolling when the door was flung open and Philip came flying out, quickly followed by a pair of tennis shoes and a racket. Now what would you like me to do?” The cameraman exposed the film and handed it over to her press secretary. “But he has, quite simply, been my strength and stay all these years, and I and his whole family, and this and many other countries, owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim, or we shall ever know.” You were quite right, he was going much too fast.” To which she replied: “But you heard what he said.”

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The ashes of her sister Princess Margaret, who died in 2002, are also kept there. Philip was at the Royal Naval College in Dartmouth and they began exchanging letters. From there they had five years together before the reality of royal life set in. It is often said that it is the people that make a place, and there are few places where this is truer than in Scotland, as we have seen in recent times." Stripped back because of the pandemic, the Queen appeared in a smart day dress, rather than her usual robes and crown. Theirs was a story that spanned 73 years of marriage — with love, family and service at its core.