Philip and Elizabeth: Portrait of a Marriage

Pub Date :2005-5-1 567 Random House This is the first biography of the Queen and the Duke ofEdinburgh - both royal. both great-great-grandchildren of QueenVictoria. but. in temperament and upbringing. two very differentpeople The Queens childhood was loving and secure. the Dukes his grandfather assassinated. his father arrested. hisfamily exiled. his parents separated when he was only ten.Elizabeth and Philip met as cousins ??in the 1930s They married in1947. aged . twenty-one and twenty-six A little more than four yearslater. they were Queen and consort For almost sixty years theirshave been among the most famous faces in the world -. yet thepersonalities behind the image remain elusive and the nature oftheir marriage is an . enigma Philip Elizabeth tells theextraordinary story of these two contrasting lives. ass...