Queen Elizabeth II And Prince Phillip's Love Story Proves That a Marriage Can Last

Seventy-three years as husband and wife. Yes! Something like this exists, and the young generation, who are exposed to short-term, meaningless relationships, should know that this kind of love, this kind of marriage, is possible, and it exists.

The late Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip are proof and testament that marriage can last. From handwritten love letters to secret engagement, E News proclaimed their relationship was unlike any other.

It was love at first sight

The Queen reigned for seven decades alongside her true prince and long-time love, Prince Philip.

Surprisingly, their love story began when they were just children. The two first crossed each other's path in 1934 while attending the wedding of Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark and Duke of Kent, Prince George. Philip was just 13 years old, while Elizabeth was eight. She was not in line to inherit the crown until she was ten, when her uncle Edward VIII decided to choose love over the throne.

The next time they met was five years later. In 1939, Philip, an 18-year-old cadet, was officially introduced to a 13-year-old Princess Elizabeth who was touring the Britannia Royal Naval College, CBS News narrated.

It was love at first sight. The princess bravely told her father, King George VI, that she had finally met the "only man I could ever love."

Both started writing letters to each other throughout World War II.

Philip wrote in one of his letters in 1946, "To have been spared in the war and seen victory, to have been given the chance to rest and to readjust myself, to have fallen in love completely and unreservedly makes all one's personal and even the world's troubles seem small and petty."

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'Til death do us part'

Romance was in the air ever since that introduction in 1939. It was said that the two got secretly engaged, but an official engagement was announced eight years later, on July 9, 1947. Philip proposed at Balmoral Castle, the same place where the Queen died recently on September 8.

At first, the royal family was unsure of the match as Philip's childhood was described as "turbulent." His family was exiled from Greece when he was 18 months old as his father was accused of treason. Yet, their love story triumphed over this when after four months, the royal family allowed their wedding on November 20, 1947-a grand, royal wedding with two thousand guests at Westminster Abbey.

Since then, their love got stronger, and their love story got more beautiful. They became parents to four children-Charles, Anne, Andrew, and Edward. Their marriage was not perfect. No marriage is, even with the royals. They both had their share of marriage challenges and faced ups and downs in their journey, yet witnesses would breathtakingly say that "their connection was one-of-a-kind." And everyone else will agree for a marriage that lasted 73 years. They faithfully committed to their vow of "Til death do us part."

Queen Elizabeth II has been laid to rest next to her beloved Prince Philip. The Queen, who died at the age of 96, was buried Monday next to her one and only prince, who died last year at the age of 99, at the King George VI Memorial Chapel at St. George's Chapel on the grounds of Windsor Castle, ABC News reported.

Together, beside each other, even in death.

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