Was the marriage of Queen Elizabeth to Prince Philip a love match or an arranged marriage?

Question

Was the marriage of Queen Elizabeth to Prince Philip a love match or an arranged marriage?

Answer 1

both

Answer 2

Hello,

From all I have read it was a combination of both.

Cheers,

Michael Kelly

Answer 3

It was a bit of both. Lord Louis Mountbatten was quite eager for the Mountbatten clan(which included royals) to ascend to the top of the social strata.He had dreams of the Royal House of Mountbatten ascending the throne. Elizabeth was quite impressed with Philip;she was a young,sheltered teenager when she was introduced.He was handsome and courteous to her and to her sister, Margaret. And he actually liked her! Elizabeth's parents saw that Elizabeth and Philip were actually a good pair,but they were also quite aware of Lord Mountbatten's plans.So,George VI insisted on a long engagement.Elizabeth was to go on the lengthy family tour for her 21st year,vowing to serve her people as heir to the throne.She was in turn promised a fabulous wedding which was going to be a mood-lifter for not only the family,but the nation. Many people sent in ticket-rations that they saved(because of World War II all supplies of things were limited),to give to Elizabeth so she could have a beautiful wedding dress made.

Louis Mountbatten was able to match-make successfully,but he was not able to get the Royal House of Windsor to be called the Royal House of Mountbatten. Descendants of the Queen,who are not royal and titled may now use the surname of Mountbatten-Windsor,but the Royal House remains Windsor.

Answer 4

it would have been an arranged marrige, im an aristercrat you see so i know these things.

lol

Answer 5

I don't know where people get their answers from! An arranged marriage it was not. The Queen is on record as saying that when She saw Prince Philip whilst visiting the Dartford Navel College (which She and the Prince will re-visit this Thursday) "it was love at first sight". Arranged marriage?

Answer 6

I think it was a bit of both.  He was her cousin and the choice of eligible men would have been fairly narrow, I assume.  She is supposed to have been madly in love with him , but at 13 ??? Who knows ?? Maybe just headstrong.  It was a good match for the Mountbattens who needed Prince Philip to marry the Princess who was first in line to the throne.  Did he love her ?? I don't think he loved her anymore than Charles ever loved Diana.

Answer 7

From what I have read, it was arranged in the fact that there where only so many possible men she could choose from.  Luckily she took a real liking to one of them.

Answer 8

I read a biography of the queen and it said that once she saw him, she knew he was the one.  It was not arranged.  Her father was not too keen on the idea if memory serves me correctly and had to be convinced.

Answer 9

In 1939, when the then "The Princess Elizabeth" was 13, she met her third cousin Prince Philip of Greece, who was five years her senior. It was love at first sight, at least on Elizabet's part. Philip showed off a good deal while playing tennis, impressing Elizabeth, who never took her eyes of him." Throughout her teens, Elizabeth remained devoted to the good-looking Philip she called my "Viking prince."

Therefore, their marriage was not "arranged" since Prince Philip did actually go down on one knee and proposed to the Queen. The two were taking a walk on a sunny summer day at Balmoral, the royal family's castle in Scotland, when Philip popped the question. "It was wonderful, magical," Elizabeth reportedly said later. "I just threw my arms round his neck and kissed him as he held me to him, my feet off the ground."

The couple kept their engagement secret from almost everyone -- especially Elizabeth's parents, who considered her too young to marry (she was twenty at the time; Philip was twenty-five) -- but the story was soon leaked to the press. Elizabeth's father, King George VI, was angry to learn that Philip and Elizabeth had become engaged without his permission. It was not until April 1947 that he agreed to let them marry. The wedding took place that November.

Answer 10

She loved him but he had no feelings for her she was to young but he Phllip had to be convinced he had no choice after what the British Royal family did for him

Answer 11

Love match.  She saw him when she was around 13, and she was doing her royal duties, inspecting the corps he was in and she was immediately smitten.  She proposed a few years later.  something like 5.  They were married, (I believe,) when she was 18, though I could be wrong about the year.  It was 1948.