This Uncommon Element About Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip's First Assembly Is So Candy

Some uncommon particulars about Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip's early relationship is coming to gentle in a brand new Nationwide Geographic documentary.

In a uncommon recording featured in Being the Queen, Prince Philip's cousin, Girl Pamela Hicks, mentioned the second he and Queen Elizabeth met. Her father, she mentioned, occurred to be current when King George VI and the Queen Mom took Elizabeth and her sister Margaret to Dartmouth in 1939.

On the time, Queen Elizabeth (then a Princess) was nearly 13 years outdated and met an 18-year-old Philip, then a cadet and, in Girl Hicks's phrases, "this absolute Greek god."

"I believe the princess fell headlong in love with him at that second," Girl Hicks says.

Being the Queen additionally sheds some gentle on how the couple's relationship developed. In response to Robert Lacey, a royal historian, Queen Elizabeth's mother and father felt "nice anxiousness" over their daughter eager to "marry the very first man she falls in love with." In spite of everything, it was greater than a matter of her private happiness — the person she married would additionally "shoulder virtually half the burden of the monarchy."

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The documentary, directed by Emmy and Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Tom Jennings (who additionally made the Princess Diana documentary Diana: In Her Personal Phrases) is an intimate look into the Queen's personal life and the best way it collides together with her public-facing position.

Being the Queen airs on Nationwide Geographic on August 31 at 9/8p.m. central.