Gosh! Take A Look At These Private Royal Photographs

Published on December 5, 2018 By Chloe Draws

A Royal Wedding!

The engagement between Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip was made public in July 1947, five years before she would take the throne. The happy couple had actually become engaged the year previously, but her father King George VI wanted them to wait until she was 21.

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They had met years earlier and continued an exchange through letters – how romantic! As of 2018, Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip have been married for 71 years! Such a wonderful life together.