ELIZABETH AND PHILIP A ROYAL LOVE MATCH

‘She clocked Philip immediately. She never thought of anybody else’
Lady Pamela Hicks

Arm in arm and smiling into each other’s eyes, the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh appeared as much in love in a photo taken in 2007 at Broadlands in Hampshire as they did on the first day of their honeymoon at the same stately home 60 years earlier.

Enjoying 73 years of marriage until Prince Philip’s death on 9 April 2021, the Queen could take some comfort in knowing that the impression made on her by the handsome young man at the Royal Naval