Queen Elizabeth announced the heartbreaking news that her ‘beloved husband’ Prince Philip has passed away, aged 99. The pair first met in 1934, when Elizabeth was just eight-years-old, at a wedding of Philip’s cousin.
They met again at the Royal Naval College in 1939 where he was a cadet. At the time, Lizzie was 13 and started writing to a then 18-year-old Philip.
By the summer of 1946, the two had fallen in love and wanted to get engaged. He asked King George for Elizabeth’s hand in marriage, but the King asked him to delay announcing their engagement until the future Queen was 21, the following year.
The world officially learned of their engagement on July 9th, 1947 and they walked down the aisle on the 20th of November. After the
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