A NAVAL MAN
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The newlyweds’ honeymoon at Broadlands, near the New Forest, and Birkhall, on the Balmoral estate, was a blissful time.
“It is so lovely and peaceful,” wrote Princess Elizabeth to her mother.
As for her new husband, “Cherish Lilibet?” Philip wrote to the Queen. “I wonder if that word is enough to express what is in me.”
For 21-year-old Elizabeth, the future surely looked rosy. Married to the man of her dreams, she looked forward to setting up her marital home. With her father aged 52 and her mother a youthful 47, she must have assumed it would be years before she would accede to the throne.
Philip, meanwhile, was eager to resume his naval duties. Although he accepted a desk job at the Admiralty, followed by a staff course at the Royal Naval College
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