The Queen and Prince Philip

[koster]

Where and how did the queen and Prince Philip first meet?

[GMH]

Not sure, could have been sometime in the 1940s, but of course she was called Princess Elizabeth and he was simply called Philip Mountbatten.

[Buenchico]

Here's your answer:
http://www.infolanka.com/org/diary/36.html

Chris

[casaespana]

I think they met in a small Greek village called Faliraki and apparently it was love at first sight. They danced the night away under the glimmer of a full moon, with the sun kissed olive groves casting their shadows around the young lovers. As Philip whispered in her ear Elizabeth knew that this would be forever, as her heart missed beat after beat being held in the arms of her Greek Adonis. Elizabeth awoke to the gentle sound of the warm breeze, as it drifted upwards from the sun kissed beach. She would be back in London soon, what would Mummy and Daddy think of her new found love? Would they approve?

To be continued.

[bonzi!]

they are both actually related, cousins twice removed or something, apparently they are both relations of Queen VIctoria!

[Grunty]

GMH - He was not called Mountbatten until March 1947, a few months before the wedding. At the time they met, he was Prince Philippos of Greece. He was born in Corfu and was a Greek citizen and of the Greek Orthodox religion. He had to convert to Anglicanism and become a naturalised Briton before he could marry Princess Elizabeth. He chose the name Mountbatten because it was still just after the war and his mother's surname, Battenberg, was considered unsuitable because it was German.

[maglet]

They originally met when she was approximately 13 years old and was visiting Royal Naval College Greenwich, with her parents King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Prince Philip of Greece as he was known was a young officer at Greenwich and was detailed to escort the Royal Party, the rest is History.