#Philip Duke of Edinburgh

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The Crown (2016-2023)

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philip, duke of edinburgh

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Men in love ♡ 

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[aimeedaisies]

A stained glass window at Canterbury Cathedral to commemorate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II with Prince Philip and young Prince Charles and Princess Anne

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[dopescissorscashwagon]

Today sharing the first royal Christmas card that was printed in colour. ⁠⁠

The card was released in 1957 and sees Elizabeth II, the Duke of Edinburgh and their two children, Charles and Anne, outside with two of the Queen’s dogs.⁠

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The Windsors + Autumn

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[thepastisalreadywritten]

In words laden with affection and warmth, Prince Philip told the then Princess Elizabeth how he had fallen in love with her 'unreservedly.'

The letter, written in 1946 — a year before their wedding — was among several revealed in Philip Eade's 2011 book Young Prince Philip: His Turbulent Early Life.

The Duke of Edinburgh, who has died aged 99, told the Princess how falling in love with her so 'completely' had made his personal troubles and even those of the world 'seem small and petty.'

He also found it difficult to put his feelings into words, describing in another message after they had spent time together how he felt incapable of 'showing you the gratitude that I feel.'

And he told the Queen Mother in the year of her daughter's wedding to him how 'Lilibet was the only thing in this world, which is absolutely real to me.'

Love letters

Philip served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War and saw active service against German, Italian, and Japanese forces.

The Greek prince's early life was also marked by upheaval — he escaped his home country as a baby by being hidden in a makeshift cot made from an orange box.

So his words were filled with meaning when he told Princess Elizabeth in 1946 how his love for her made all his past struggle — and the horrors the world had just been through — seem trivial by comparison.

He wrote:

'To have been spared in the war and seen victory, to have been given the chance to rest and to re-adjust myself, to have fallen in love completely and unreservedly, makes all one's personal and even the world's troubles seem small and petty.'

Three years earlier, Philip had spent Christmas at Windsor Castle.

Princess Elizabeth was said to be animated in a way 'none of us had ever seen before,' her governess, Marion Crawford, wrote.

Writing to her after seeing her again in July, Philip wrote of the 'simple enjoyment of family pleasures and amusements and the feeling that I am welcome to share them.'

'I am afraid I am not capable of putting all this into the right words and I am certainly incapable of showing you the gratitude that I feel.'

The same year, he apologised for the 'monumental cheek' of turning up to Buckingham Palace uninvited.

'Yet however contrite I feel, there is always a small voice that keeps saying "Nothing ventured, nothing gained,"' he wrote.

'Well did I venture, and I gained a wonderful time.'

And in a letter to the Queen Mother two weeks after his wedding to Princess Elizabeth in November 1947, Philip expressed his vision for their time together.

He said:

'Lilibet is the only thing in this world, which is absolutely real to me, and my ambition is to wield the two of us into a new combined existence that will not only be able to withstand the shocks directed at us but will also have a positive existence for the good... Cherish Lilibet?'

'I wonder if that word is enough to express what is in me. Does one cherish one's sense of humour or one's musical ear or one's eyes?

'I am not sure, but I know that I thank God for them and so, very humbly, I thank God for Lilibet and us.'

Public speeches

The pair's wedding, attended by an array of foreign kings and queens, captured the public imagination in the austere post-war days of November 1947.

The newly-weds were called the Fairy Princess and Prince Charming.

After honeymooning at Broadlands, Hampshire, home of Lord Mountbatten, and at Birkhall on the Balmoral estate in Scotland, Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh stayed at Buckingham Palace until renovation of their new home, nearby Clarence House, was completed in 1949.

And in the years since then, both Philip and the Queen have spoken of each other with affection in public.

In a 1997 toast during the couple's 50th wedding anniversary, he said:

'I think the main lesson that we have learned is that tolerance is the one essential ingredient of any happy marriage.

It may not be quite so important when things are going well, but it is absolutely vital when the going gets difficult.

You can take it from me that the Queen has the quality of tolerance in abundance.'

She said on the same evening that Philip had been her 'strength and stay all these years.'

'I, and his whole family, and this and many other countries, owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim, or we shall ever know,' she added.

In 2002, at her Golden Jubilee Speech, the monarch said of her consort:

'The Duke of Edinburgh has made an invaluable contribution to my life over these past fifty years, as he has to so many charities and organisations with which he has been involved.'

And, during her Diamond Jubilee address to Parliament in 2012, the Queen said to her husband:

'During these years as your Queen, the support of my family has, across the generations, been beyond measure.

Prince Philip is, I believe, well-known for declining compliments of any kind. But throughout he has been a constant strength and guide.'

Private moments

Philip was there for the Queen when her father, King George VI, died in February 1952.

Only six days before her father's death, the then Princess and Philip had embarked on their tour of Australia via Kenya.

According to Eade in his book, Philip said of the days following the King's death that 'there were plenty of people telling me what not to do.'

He added:

'I had to try to support the Queen as best I could without getting in the way. The difficulty was to find things that might be useful.'

And according to an anecdote told by Queen Alexandra of Yugoslavia, Philip is said to have told the Queen when recalling their first meeting in 1934 that — 'you were so shy. I could not get a word out of you.'

Mischievous Philip is also said to have joked to his wife on the day of her coronation in 1953 — when she was wearing the 17th-century St Edward's Crown — 'where did you get that hat.'

Elizabeth II (21 April 1926 – 8 September 2022)

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (10 June 1921 – 9 April 2021)

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[andreeamq]

However, she [the Queen] is entirely forgiving of honest mistakes, such as that of an unfortunate first lady of Finland. Sylvi Kekkonen accompanied her husband, Urho, on his 1969 state visit to London as Finnish president. Unfortunately, she muddled up her medication, took a sleeping pill instead of her heart pill, and had to be gently propped upright by the Duke of Edinburgh and Princess Anne for the duration of the carriage procession to the palace. 'The Queen still loves telling that story,' says a former official.

‘Queen of Our Times: The Life of Queen Elizabeth ll’ by Robert Hardman (2022).

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[lilibetqueen7]

How incredible ! A letter from Queen Elizabeth II to Prince Philip, 3 weeks before their reunion in Lisbon in 1957, has been auctioned and made public.

“Still 3 weeks to go and what a tiresome date it is, too,for me” , “All my love darling, your very loving Lilibet”🥺

Ps : Elizabeth and Anne wanted the beard off🤣

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[grandmaster-anne]

5 July 1955 Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip departs the Chapel of the Order of the Thistle, where The Queen installed the new Knights. They then process to the Cathedral for the remainder of the Service. © Grinberg, Paramount

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Queen Elizabeth ii and Prince Philip

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The Crown (2016-…)

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11 June 2011 | Queen Elizabeth ll and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh attend the Trooping The Colour Ceremony in London, United Kingdom.

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A Royal side eye ✨

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[krasivaa]

Princess Anne and Prince Charles (KCIII) play on an improvised see-saw helped by their father Prince Philip and watched by their mother, the Queen, and a corgi of theirs in 1957. 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦💌🐶

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