>> when he asked her to marry hip in 1946, elizabeth says yes to phillip. but of course, she has to ask her father's permission. >> if i am's proposal came as a nasty shock to the king and the queen. >> prince phillip would not have been their first choice. he was a foreign prince and he had a lot of german connections. after the war, there is a great deal of anti-german sentiment in the household. the problem for phillip is that three of his sisters were married to nazis and therefore, there's a great deal of suspicion around phillip. >> king's private secretary thought that phillip was a rough, crude, coarse sailor who