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Subscriber only A photograph propped up on the mantelpiece in Lilibet s room was one of the first indications she was growing up fast. The future Queen Elizabeth II was still a teenager but sometime earlier at the age of 13 she had met a dashing 18-year-old sailor named Philip and a couple of years on had a photo of him on the mantel in her bedroom. The tall good-looking naval officer with the piercing blue eyes was himself only a boy having just turned 21 but in 1942 he was at sea fighting for his country and secretly writing to the princess to whom who he was distantly related.
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News by Charles Miranda
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Subscriber only A photograph propped up on the mantelpiece in Lilibet s room was one of the first indications she was growing up fast. The future Queen Elizabeth II was still a teenager but sometime earlier at the age of 13 she had met a dashing 18-year-old sailor named Philip and a couple of years on had a photo of him on the mantel in her bedroom. The tall good-looking naval officer with the piercing blue eyes was himself only a boy having just turned 21 but in 1942 he was at sea fighting for his country and secretly writing to the princess to whom who he was distantly related.