A look back at Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip's decades-long love story after her death at 96
foxnews.comQueen Elizabeth II died at the age of 96 at Balmoral Castle on Thursday, a year and half after her beloved husband Prince Philip's death in April 2021.
The pair was married for 73 years, making them the longest-married couple in royal history. Their decades-long romance endured through many difficult times for the royal family over the years, with the monarch once referring to her spouse as "my strength and stay." Queen Elizabeth II, who died on Thursday at the age of 96, shared a decades-long romance with her late husband Prince Philip. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File) The couple first met at a wedding when Queen Elizabeth was 7-years-old and Prince Philip was 12.
However, it was when they encountered each again five years later in 1939 at the Royal Naval College that their romance began to blossom.
After Prince Philip left to serve in World War II, the two began to exchange letters. Upon his return from the war in 1943, he began to court the then-princess with the intention of marriage.
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