Prince Philip: A Portrait of the Duke of Edinburgh, London-based royal expert and biographer Ingrid Seward writes:‘At least Philip didn’t have the expense of a wedding ring, as the people of Wales supplied a nugget of Welsh gold from which the ring as made.
She never takes it off and inside the ring is an inscription.’She continues: ”No one knows what it says, other than the engraver, the Queen and her husband.’Queen Elizabeth’s engagement ring also has a special sentiment as before proposing, Prince Philip had a tiara, which was owned by his mother, Princess Alice of Battenberg, taken apart and repurposed the diamonds to make a ring.The royal couple got married on November 20, 1947, at Westminster Abbey under the watchful eyes of 200.
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