Prince Philip's mother's view of Queen revealed by expert

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The royal couple was introduced at the house of the Captain of the College, later Admiral Sir Frederick Dalrymple-Hamilton. The then-princess’ governess, Marion Crawford, opened up about her life with the Monarch in her book, The Little Princesses.

She also recalled Elizabeth being “smitten” after her first encounter with Philip.

Ms Crawford recounted the Duke of Edinburgh’s way to get Her Majesty’s attention by jumping over the nets on the tennis courts.

She wrote: “I thought he showed off a good deal.

“She never took her eyes off him the whole time.”

However, the Queen’s admiration was not as evident to Philip, who confessed he was just an acquaintance to her.

He said: “We used to correspond occasionally. You see it’s difficult to visualise.

“I suppose if I’d just been a casual acquaintance it would all have been frightfully significant.

“But if you’re related – I mean I knew half the people here, they were all relations – it isn’t so extraordinary to be on kind of family-relationship terms with somebody.

“You don’t necessarily have to think about marriage.

“I suppose one thing led to another. I suppose I began to think about it seriously, oh, let me think now, when I got back in ’46 and went to Balmoral.”

The couple’s romance sparked media frenzy when they attended Lady Patricia Mountbatten’s wedding in 1946, to John Knatchbull.

The moment was seen as a turning point in Princess Elizabeth’s relationship with Philip. 

Vanity Fair journalist James Reginato spoke to Lady Pamela Hicks, the daughter of Prince Philip’s uncle Louis Mountbatten in 2013.

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He suggested Elizabeth may have “clocked” her future husband the same year but at a different event – at Dartmouth Naval College.

Mr Reginatio said: “When Philip casually took the coat of Princess Elizabeth as they arrived, the press assembled outside caught this first hint of a royal romance, and a media frenzy ensued.

“Patricia and Pamela had long known about Elizabeth’s crush on Philip.

“The future queen had ‘clocked him,’ as Pamela puts it, when she visited Dartmouth Naval College with her parents when she was 13 years old.”

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