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A abysmal adulation for commemoration added and a aggregate faculty of humour accept abiding the pair, now age-old 91 and 96, through acceptable times and bad.
["400px"]Phil Dampier discovers 70 affecting and agreeable belief about the best acclaimed brace in the world.
1 Elizabeth and Philip, both greatgreat-grandchildren of Queen Victoria and accordingly cousins, aboriginal met in 1934 at a ancestors bells aback she was eight.
2 Philip captured her affection in 1939 aback he was asked to attending afterwards Elizabeth and sister Margaret on a appointment by their parents King George VI and Queen Elizabeth to the Aristocratic Argosy College in Dartmouth.
3 Handsome blond-haired Philip, again 18, closed their accord over amber biscuits and lemonade and afflicted the 13-year-old angel by aggressive over a tennis net.
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4 The brace exchanged belletrist during the war aback Philip was abroad in the Aristocratic Navy, and Elizabeth kept a photo of him on her mantelpiece. Aback her assistant Marion Crawford asked if it was astute as bodies ability gossip, Elizabeth replaced it with one of Philip in a bristles and said: “I baffle anyone to recognise who that is!”
5 While romancing Philip, Elizabeth endlessly played the hit almanac Bodies Will Say We’re In Adulation from the agreeable Oklahoma. It charcoal their favourite song.
6 Her parents anticipation Philip “rough, ill-tempered, benighted and apparently won’t be faithful” – but they grew to like him.
7 In 1945, anon afterwards the end of the war, they were apparent walking duke in duke through Windsor Abundant Park but sprang afar aback spotted.
8 During their assurance they played a parlour bold alleged “murder” with accompany – and generally concluded up in aphotic corners aback the lights went out.
9 In a letter to aristocratic columnist Betty Shaw aloof afore their 1947 wedding, Elizabeth declared demography a circuit in Philip’s MG and said : “He enjoys active fast! It was abundant fun, abandoned the auto are about college than one’s head.”
10 The Queen has never appear the exact way in which Philip proposed to her, assertive the moment should abide private.
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11 Philip gave up smoker the night afore their bells as Elizabeth hated the habit.
12 They affiliated in Westminster Abbey on November 20, 1947, afore 2,500 guests. Elizabeth’s Norman Hartnell dress was paid for by 300 rationed accouterment coupons.
13 Abandoned Philip knows the inscription on the axial of the Queen’s bells ring.
14 They spent the aboriginal night of their action at Broadlands in Hampshire, home of Lord Mountbatten. Much to Philip’s amusement, Elizabeth took her corgi Crackers with her.
15 The Queen was afraid that Philip didn’t abrasion pyjamas.
16 Aristocratic aide James McDonald absolved into their bedchamber to acquisition Philip naked and Elizabeth cutting a cottony nightgown.
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17 In a letter to his new mother-in-law Philip wrote: “Lilibet is the abandoned ‘thing’ in this apple which is actually absolute to me.”
18 While stationed in Malta for two years aback Philip was a argosy officer, the brace went to movies and captivated calmly like any added adolescent couple.
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19 They generally danced the night abroad in the Hotel Meridien Phoenicia in Valletta, area Philip banned to acquiesce added admiral to brawl with Elizabeth and instructed the orchestra to comedy one of her favourite songs, Booty The A-Train by Duke Ellington.
20 On her 21st altogether in Rome, Elizabeth capital to eat at a accurate restaurant but Philip insisted on activity to an admiral accession instead. She didn’t allege to him for days.
21 A few months into their marriage, Philip’s accessory Patricia Mountbatten remarked on Elizabeth’s absolute complexion. Philip joked : “Yes, and she’s like that all over.”
22 In the year of their alliance they went to a adorned dress brawl dressed as a maid and a waiter.
23 Philip has two nicknames for the Queen – “sausage” and “cabbage”.
24 During a bout of Canada in 1951 Philip chased her bottomward a alternation aisle cutting a set of antic apocryphal teeth.
25 He additionally placed a tin of basics on her bathrobe table and aback she opened it a artificial snake popped out.
26 As they were bridge the baptize to Vancouver Island the address rocked berserk and a adolescent petty administrator abandoned a tray of cakes. Philip got bottomward and best some up, cogent Elizabeth: “I’ve got affluence – castigation are bottomward there!”
27 In 1952 it fell to Philip to acquaint Angel Elizabeth that her ancestor King George VI had died and she was now Queen. The brace were attractive at wildlife in Kenya on their way to an Australian tour, which was again abandoned aback the Queen flew home.
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28 Philip was the aboriginal actuality to pay admiration to the Queen at her 1953 Coronation. He knelt afore her, captivated her duke and said : “I, Philip Duke of Edinburgh, do become your aristocrat man of activity and limb; and of alluvial worship; and acceptance and accuracy will I buck unto you, to alive and die, adjoin all address of folks. So advice me God.”
29 Anon afterwards he lightened the amount by allurement her: “Where did you get that hat?”
30 Philip told his aboriginal Clandestine Secretary Michael Parker: “My job, first, additional and aftermost is never to let the Queen down.”
31 Aback they aboriginal confused into Buckingham Alcazar Philip had a absolute blast band installed so that he could allocution to his wife afterwards activity through the switchboard.
32 He additionally had axial heating, dishwashers, abrasion machines and added mod-cons installed for the aboriginal time in aristocratic palaces.
33 Throughout the aboriginal year of her reign, a beginning canteen of whisky was placed in the Queen’s bedchamber every night, a custom dating aback to Queen Victoria’s era, but Philip put a stop to it.
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34 Aback they feast alone, Philip will mix the Queen her favourite drink, gin and Dubonnet.
35 On a appointment to New Zealand in 1953 they accomplished “one of the best bewitched moments of their lives” aback they saw the allegorical glow-worm cave in Waitomo.
36 Aback Philip opened the 1956 Melbourne Olympics in Australia and again connected canoeing aboard the Aristocratic Yacht Britannia, rumours began that all was not able-bodied with their marriage. Aback they were reunited in Lisbon afterwards 124 canicule apart, the Queen wore a apocryphal bristles as a antic to accommodated her bedmate – not alive he had baldheaded his “full set” off.
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37 They accept both consistently agitated babyish cameras to booty pictures of commemoration added and agreeable guests.
38 Afterwards Elizabeth complained of a bad back, Philip bought her a adamantine horsehair mattress to affluence the problem.
39 Aback presenting Philip with a polo cup, the Queen abandoned the base. They both angled bottomward to aces it up and banged heads, to the action of watching crowds.
40 Philip already laughed out loud aback a assistant addled up a confined table and a allotment of buttery block abandoned bottomward the Queen’s cleavage.
41 The Queen let her bedmate accomplish best decisions about their four accouchement because, as she already explained: “Philip has had no absolute ancestors activity of his own.”
42 She already told a friend: “Go on, acquaint him. No one anytime stands up to him.”
43 She has additionally been heard to acquaint him: “Oh do shut up – you don’t apperceive what you are talking about.”
44 Philip already told her to booty her shoes off to relax afore authoritative a Christmas TV speech, cogent her: “Forget about agreement darling, what bodies appetite to see is you smile.”
45 The Queen already told a acquaintance that alluringly she would like to retire and alive with Philip in a admirable basin in Lancashire abreast the Forest of Bowland.
46 At their Argent Bells feast in 1977 the Queen began her speech: “I anticipate everybody actually will accept that on this, of all days, I should activate my accent with the words ‘my bedmate and I.’”
47 She loves barbecues at Balmoral aback Philip grills her favourite Harrods sausages and she does the abrasion up.
48 Philip and son Prince Charles rode to the Queen’s ancillary aback asymmetric Marcus Sergeant accursed a gun with blanks in it at her during the 1981 Trooping the Colour ceremony.
49 The Queen loves to do impressions and does a ablaze one of Philip.
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50 They eat breakfast calm with cereals on the table in artificial Tupperware containers.
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51 Returning to Kenya in 1983, 31 years afterwards she became Queen, the aristocratic brace went on carnival and were confronted by two alarming Cape Buffalo. As administrator Richard Prickett aloft his gun as a anticipation and apprenticed the affair to move boring backwards, the Queen remained calm and said: “Oh, attending Philip, buffalo!”
52 Aback the Queen’s car was pelted with eggs by agitation Maoris on a 1986 bout of New Zealand, Philip got out and artlessly wiped them off the windscreen with his handkerchief!
53 Both ache from arthritis in their calmly and can generally be apparent coil them. They advice commemoration added with new ideas, decidedly herbal and addition medicines.
54 A account of Philip cutting his argosy compatible takes pride of abode on the Queen’s autograph table.
55 If the Queen wants to almanac a TV programme, Philip consistently sets it up for her.
56 She sometimes jokes to Philip: “I’ve got my Miss Piggy face on” if she is agitated about something.
57 In 1993, on a appointment to the Commonwealth Institute in London, the Queen could not acquisition her glasses in her backpack so Philip apprehend her accent instead.
58 The Queen’s backward Clandestine Secretary Lord Charteris already said: “Prince Philip is the abandoned man in the apple who treats the Queen artlessly as addition animal being.”
59 At the Chelsea Flower Show in 1996 the Queen spotted a alarm featuring a dog “hose” peeing baptize every 15 seconds. She angry to Philip and said: “We charge accept it!”
60 At a cafeteria to mark their 50th bells commemoration in 1997, Philip said: “The capital assignment we accept abstruse is that altruism is the one capital additive of any blessed marriage. It ability not be so important aback things are activity able-bodied but it’s actually basic aback things get difficult. You can booty it from me that the Queen has the affection of altruism in abundance.”
61 At addition cafeteria that anniversary the Queen paid a attenuate accolade to Philip saying: “He is addition who doesn’t booty calmly to compliments. But he has actually artlessly been my backbone and capital break all these years, and I and his accomplished family, and this and abounding added countries, owe him a debt greater than he would anytime affirmation or that we shall anytime know.”
62 The Queen still keeps in her backpack a babyish argent composition case which he fabricated for her anon afterwards they married.
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63 In June 2010 Philip paid £10,000 at bargain for a account of the Queen at the 1953 Altogether Parade by his favourite artisan Edward Seago. It now sits proudly with the aboriginal painting in his appointment at Buckingham Palace.
64 For his 90th altogether the Queen gave Philip the appellation of Lord High Admiral (he was already Admiral of the Fleet.)
65 Philip fell ill with a float infection afterwards braving hours of algid and wet acclimate during the river celebration in the Diamond Jubilee celebrations in 2012. Aback the Queen absolved into St Paul’s Cathedral for a approbation account afterwards him she aback looked accessible and alone.
66 In a 2012 TV interview, Prince William said of his grandparents: “They adulation it aback things go wrong. They actually admire it because acutely aggregate consistently has to be right, but aback things go amiss about them they’re the aboriginal bodies to laugh.”
67 Prince Harry added: “They are a team. I don’t anticipate she could accept done her job afterwards him.”
68 Prince Philip has said: “It’s the abstruse of a blessed alliance to accept altered interests.”
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69 They accept four children, eight grandchildren and bristles great-grandchildren. William and Kate’s third baby, due abutting April, will be their sixth.
70 Every week, afterwards fail, Philip gives his wife flowers.
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