I think this is the most beautiful picture I've ever seen. At least the most beautiful of those that don't have my loved ones in it. What can be more beautiful than love that lasts the decades and inspires the same look of rapture after 65 years of marriage?
This from Wikipedia:
The engagement was not without controversy: Philip had no financial standing, was foreign-born (though a British subject who had served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War), and had sisters who had married German noblemen with Nazi links. Some of the King's advisers did not think him good enough for her. He was a prince without a home or kingdom. Elizabeth's mother was reported to have opposed the union initially, even dubbing Philip "The Hun". Before the marriage, Philip renounced his Greek and Danish titles,and converted from Greek Orthodoxy to Anglicanism.
Add to this that Elizabeth was only 21 when they married.
The Prince is 91 now, and has been in and out of the hospital recently. I wish them both well.
Every girl deserves a Prince like Phillip, or at least to be looked at the way he looks at his Elizabeth.
;-)
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