As children, Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip of Greece met a couple of times and treated each other with complete indifference.
They were both guests at Elizabeth’s uncle Prince George, Duke of Kent’s wedding to Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark in 1934. She was eight and he was 13. And both went to George VI’s coronation three years later.
But in July 1939, fate intervened in the form of an outbreak of mumps and measles at the Royal Naval College. The King, an alumnus of the college, and Queen were visiting with their daughters. Philip, then a penniless 18-year-old cadet and one of
