UNITED KINGDOM: Queen Elizabeth II’s husband Prince Philip, who recently spent more than a month in hospital and underwent a heart procedure, died … When he heard about this, their grandfather George V intervened and stopped this plan for their education going ahead. Mary, however, had a sharp eye and when Philip was invited in 1943 to spend Christmas with the family at Windsor Castle, she wrote to a friend (as Sally Bedell Smith writes in her book, Elizabeth the Queen), after observing Elizabeth and Philip together, that they had “been in love for the past 18 months.In fact longer, I think.” Queen Elizabeth II is a fan of eating Special K cereal and leftovers, and her waste-not mindset means she’d rather fix and reuse items like sheets and gloves than toss them in the trash. Yet he was a permanent public presence at the queen's side, who called him her "strength and stay". Prince Philip had reportedly been called rough and uneducated by a royal aide. In this file photo taken on October 12, 2018 Britain's Queen Elizabeth II (L) and Britain's Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (R) wait for the carriage carrying Princess Eugenie of York and her husband Jack Brooksbank to pass at the start of the procession after their wedding ceremony at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, in Windsor, on October 12, 2018. They reportedly found the young naval officer “rough, ill-mannered and uneducated” and worried he “would probably not be faithful”. No one feared for Elizabeth more than her father’s private secretary Sir Tommy Lascelles, who felt Philip was ‘rough, ill-mannered, uneducated and would probably not be faithful’. Two years after Kennedy’s 1963 assassination, Queen Elizabeth opened a U.K. memorial for the late U.S. president at Runnymede in Berkshire—the site of … Like her, his life was ruled by duty and tradition, putting his considerable energy behind numerous charities and carrying out 22,219 solo public engagements since Elizabeth rose to the throne in 1952. They reportedly found the young naval officer "rough, ill-mannered and uneducated" and worried he … The Duke of York (the future George VI) and his wife did consider sending his two daughters to a private school to be educated. Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip at the Queen's coronation (Image: Keystone/Getty Images) Known to those in his service as Tommy, Lascelles dedicated 27 years of his life to royal service. Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, prior to his marriage to Princess Elizabeth, saluting as he resumes his attendance at the Royal Naval Officers School at Kingsmoor, Hawthorn, England, 31 July 1947. What Really Happened When Jackie Kennedy Met Queen Elizabeth Craig Brown Updated: Apr.