![]() ![]() Elizabeth, then 13, is said to have fallen quickly in love with her 18-year-old prince-the two struck up a correspondence and remained in contact throughout the war. Philip first met Queen Elizabeth (then Princess Elizabeth) also in 1939, when he gave her a tour of the Royal Naval College where he was studying. ![]() In the United Kingdom, he primarily lived at Kensington Palace with his maternal grandmother, Princess Victoria, then Victoria Mountbatten, a dowager marchioness-Mountbatten being the last name he took on for his marriage (which is why some members of the royal family now use the double-barreled Mountbatten-Windsor last name).Īfter graduating from Gordonstoun, a famous British public school, in 1939, Philip enlisted in the Royal Navy-he fought during World War II and rose to the rank of lieutenant commander. ![]() Philip spent most of his early childhood in France and, later, the United Kingdom for his schooling, as (most of) the Greek royal family fled their home country in 1922 following King Constantine’s abdication. ![]()
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