The Queen has enjoyed over seven decades of marriage to Prince Philip in which the pair have had four children, eight grandchildren and ten great grandchildren.Princess Elizabeth declared her engagement to Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten in the summer of 1947 - but the current Queen was actually aged just 13 when the pair met for the first time.
The royals crossed paths while the Queen joined King George VI, the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret for a trip to Dartmouth Britannia Royal Naval College, the same place Philip was training as a cadet.Their meeting was rather fortunate, Philip's branch of cadets was grappling with a nasty outbreak of mumps and chickenpox.
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