Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh are third cousins, sharing Queen Victoria as a great-great-grandmother.
Their wedding on 20 November 1947 at Westminster Abbey, became an inter-national celebration and the largest gathering of the world’s leaders in London.
The teenage Princess Elizabeth met and fell in love with the young Prince Philip when he was attending the Royal Navy College at Dartmouth. Elizabeth’s parents, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, encouraged their daughter not to rush into any serious relationship. She obeyed her parents for the next eight years until their engagement, announced in July 1947.
The death of Elizabeth’s father, King George VI, in February 1952 occurred on a Royal Tour when Elizabeth and the Duke were at dinner at the famous Treetops Hotel in Kenya. Elizabeth, at the tender age of 25, had ascended to the throne and become Queen Elizabeth II. The coronation followed in 1953, after which the Royal Family took up residence in Buckingham Palace.
The couple’s first son and heir, Prince Charles was born six days before their first wedding anniversary on November 14, 1948. Their second child, Princess Anne, was born on August 15, 1950 followed by two more children; Prince Andrew almost a decade later on February 19, 1960, and Prince Edward on March 10, 1964. From their four children they have seven grandchildren.
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Why isn’t the Queen of England’s husband referred to as the King of England? Isn’t he king by marriage?
ReplyDeleteIn the British monarchy, the husband of a female monarch does not have any recognized special status, rank, or privileges.
ReplyDeletePrince Philip was a prince from birth. He is the son of Prince Andrew of Greece and was born Prince of Greece and Denmark. Upon his marriage to then-Princess Elizabeth in 1947, Philip was given the title “Duke of Edinburgh, Earl of Merion, and Baron Greenwich,” and was made a Knight of the Garter. (He became a British citizen around this time and renounced his Greek and Danish titles). Elizabeth II was coronated in 1953, and in 1957, she granted Philip the title “Prince of the United Kingdom.”
what s the queens last name?
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