On April 21, Queen Elizabeth II turns 95. It will be a sad birthday. The first without the Prince Philip. He was “simply my strength,” wrote the sovereign immediately after the death of her husband in the official Instagram account of the royal family. A force that has accompanied it for over eighty years.
Their first official meeting took place when 13-year-old Lilibet accompanied her parents on a visit to Britain’s Royal Naval College where the Prince of Greece was a cadet. Handsome, very blond, tall and athletic, the eighteen year old Philip immediately stole the heart of the young princess. It was July 1939. From that moment they began a regular correspondence and met on several occasions, until their love was crowned with the royal wedding celebrated. on November 20, 1947. The queen is now a widow after a marriage that lasted 73 years. In Windsor she is rarely left entirely alone, court sources say, but her loneliness is palpable.
It is inevitable. Because the one between her and Filippo was a true love. Also told by the documentary The Queen Unseen broadcast by ITV in recent days. Thanks to old folks Super8 family home movies shot by relatives and friends, the documentary shows never seen before and very private images of the queen with her husband.
For example, in the video you can see a young Elisabetta sitting in a bathing suit by the pool, while she contemplates in love Filippo who dives, swims, goes out to dry, falls from a deckchair, laughs, jokes. It was the Christmas holidays of 1953. To make the film, the hostess, Patricia Norrie, wife of the governor of the New Zeland, where the couple was then for a Royal tour official. In another clip of the documentary we see Elizabeth looking adoringly at Philip while teaches to fish to his third son Andrea.
Now Filippo is gone. And as the son told Andrea, Elisabetta “Feels a huge emptiness”. A void that, as is inevitable, will be even deeper on the day of his ninety-fifth birthday. The first without her beloved husband, who three months later, on June 10, would have turned one hundred.
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