‘She never took her eyes off him’: Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip’s decades-long love story

The Queen fell in love with Philip at first sight as a teenager

Princess Elizabeth enjoys a stroll with new husband the Duke of Edinburgh in their first public appearance since their wedding (PA)

He was a dashing naval cadet with royal roots and she was a young princess who would one day be queen.

The romance of Prince Philip of Greece and Princess Elizabeth of Britain sprang out of a summer encounter at the Royal Naval College in Dartmouth in 1939.