'His job, first, second and last was never to let her down': The magical marriage of the Fairy Princess and Prince Charming cheered post-war Britain and lasted 73 years
Prince Philip wowed Elizabeth at their first official meeting when he was 18 and she was just 13
Philip was invited to spend Christmas 1943 with the Royal Family at Windsor four years later
By the end of the Second World War newspapers were speculating about the couple's relationship
The wedding captured the public's imagination in the austere post-war days of November 1947