Quiz 27/11/97

 

QUIZ QUESTION

In which year and on what date did Princess Elizabeth marry Prince Philip Mountbatten of Greece.


ANSWER

On November 20, 1947, Princess Elizabeth married her distant cousin, Philip Mountbatten, a young prince of the exiled Greek royal family, in a lavish wedding that relieved Britain from its post-war gloom.

Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor, the future Queen Elizabeth II, was 21. Prince Philip was a dashing 26-year-old British naval officer who had fought in World War II.

 

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