THE QUEEN’s parents were “appalled” at her romance with Prince Philip, a royal relative revealed. Lady Pamela Hicks, the daughter of the Duke of Edinburgh’s uncle Louis Mountbatten and the Queen’s …
Lady Pamela said: “The King and Queen were appalled.Credit: Times Newspapers Ltd“The thought that he might become a son-in-law was most unwelcome. Why wasn’t she marrying some respectable English duke?
“Yes, he was a Prince of Greece and Denmark. But very suspect, Greece – they get rid of their royal families regularly. And he had no money.” However, their disapproval clearly had no impact on the royal romance with the Queen and Philip marrying in a historic ceremony on November 20, 1947.The couple had met 13 years earlier, at the wedding of Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark and Prince George, Duke of Kent, in 1934.
After a third meeting in July 1939 our future Queen, who was just 13 years old at the time, is said to have fallen in love with Philip - and they began exchanging letters. The couple became secretly engaged in 1946 and Elizabeth's father, King George VI, ordered that any formal engagement was delayed until after his daughter's 21st birthday - in April 1947.LAST MOMENTSBoots is launching a Harry Potter Christmas beauty advent calendarFEELING PEACHYUK's Dr Pimple Popper squeezes giant 'shamrock-shaped' lump from man's armThey reached
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