The late Queen Elizabeth II memorably married Philip Mountbatten in Westminster Abbey on November 20, 1947, in front of 2,000 ...

Simon Perry is a writer and correspondent at PEOPLE. He has more than 25 years’ experience at PEOPLE covering the royals, human interest and celebrity. Queen Elizabeth had to fight for the love ...

As a high-profile member of the royal family with strong military connections – a naval officer, he was an uncle of Charles’s father, Prince Philip – Mountbatten was viewed as a legitimate ...

The series consists of six seasons spanning six decades, starting shortly before the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten in 1947. The series ends with the 2005 wedding of Prince ...

After an official engagement of five months, as Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten he married Elizabeth on 20 November 1947. On his marriage, he was granted the style of His Royal Highness and the ...

Born into royalty in June 1921, he rolled Danish, Greek, German, and English blood into one initial Mountbatten body. During World War II, Philip, a Royal Navy officer, married his third cousin ...

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