WEDDING OF THE CENTURY

ELIZABETH WAS JUST 13 WHEN SHE MET PHILIP MOUNTBATTEN, THE DASHING 18-YEAR-OLD NAVAL CADET WHO WOULD SOMEDAY BECOME HER HUSBAND

THE WAR YEARS

BRITAIN IN 1947 WAS STILL a war-weary nation, its cities strewn with rubble and food in short supply. But in the ninth winter of austerity, “the skies cleared for a brief moment,” wrote Life magazine, and “shining through came a fleeting, nostalgic...

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