Some rare details about Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip’s early relationship is coming to light in a new National Geographic documentary.
Being the Queen also sheds some light on how the couple’s relationship developed. According to Robert Lacey, Queen Elizabeth’s parents felt “great anxiety” over their daughter wanting to “marry the very first man she falls in love with.” After all, it was more than a matter of her personal happiness — the man she married would also “shoulder almost half the burden of the monarchy.”
Being the Queen airs on National Geographic on August 31 at 9/8p.m.
