The Duke of Edinburgh and the Queen have their 72nd wedding anniversary today, but are sadly spending it apart after Philip had a health scare, the Sun has reported. The two rarely show their affection for one another, but their relationship has often been a source of speculation. The popular Netflix series, ’The Crown’, revealed in its first two series how the couple struggled to adapt to their royal duties when Elizabeth became the ruling monarch.

However, the most recent series shows the stable and loving duo that we have come to recognise at the forefront of the Royal Family.

Although both always maintain their composure and uphold the traditional ‘stiff upper lip’ associated with the monarchy, they did give some insight into how they felt about one another back on their first day of marriage in November 1947.

The Daily Mirror revealed the day after the wedding how Philip had delivered his speech with enthusiasm at the reception.

It claimed: “The young bridegroom had jumped to his feet. There was no shyness. His speech was short, sincere.”

He said: “I am proud. Proud of my country and my wife.”

The Queen – then known as Princess Elizabeth – stood after him to deliver her own speech, and reportedly, “pride was in his eyes” as he looked at his new bride.

The Daily Mirror reported: “The Princess spoke only a few sentences. She thanked her father and mother and her guests. She told how pleased she was to have her grandmother Queen Mary at the wedding table.

“Of her marriage, she just said this: ‘I ask nothing more than that Philip and I should as happy as my father and mother have been, and Queen Mary and King George before them.’”

However, their speeches were not the first during the ceremony.

The Queen’s father, King George VI, also wanted to honour his eldest daughter and raised a glass to her.

He said: “Our daughter is marrying the man she loves.”

The Daily Mirror commented: “Only two remained seated. They held hands, looked at each other and smiled.”

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The pair first met in 1934 when Elizabeth was only eight. Philip, then known as Philip Mountbatten, at his cousin’s wedding.

At the time, she was third in line to the throne after her father and her uncle Edward, but Edward later abdicated to marry divorcee Wallis Simpson.

Philip and Elizabeth then established a friendship in 1939, when she was 13 and Philip was 18, leading to years of written correspondence.

Philip then asked her father King George VI for her hand in marriage in 1946, and the monarch happily gave his permission and the wedding was planned.

Later that same year, the future Duke of Edinburgh wrote a loving letter to his future bride.

According to royal biographer, Ingrid Seward, he said: “To be spared in the war and seen victory, to have been given the chance to rest and to re-adjust myself, to have fallen in love completely and unreservedly, makes all one’s personal and even the world troubles seem small and petty.”

Elizabeth then ascended to the throne in 1952, following the sudden death of her father.

The couple went on to have four children: Prince Charles, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward.

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