Queen met 18-year-old Navy cadet who became love of her life at the age of just 13
dailystar.co.ukVanity Fair, royal historian Christopher Warwick said: “And when he got tired of playing train sets with them, it’s famously known that he said: ‘Let’s go and jump the nets on the tennis courts.’“And Princess Elizabeth was just overwhelmed [by Philip], really.
Her governess, Marion Crawford, recorded [in her diary] that Elizabeth said: ‘See how he jumps.”The Queen had already seen Philip, or the Duke had seen her, due to them being third cousins through Queen Victoria.Philip was also known as the Prince of Greece and would have seen the Queen at certain events over the years.However, this meeting saw the pair acknowledge each other for the first time and would lead to them bumping into each other at the royal quarters and the two were even known to have exchanged correspondences.Mr Warwick explained that some of Philip’s family were encouraging him to marry the future heir to the throne.In 1944, with Elizabeth still a teenager, Philip‘s uncle Lord Mountbatten asked her father, King George VI about marriage between the two.Mr Warwick said the King’s reply was: ‘She’s much too young.
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