Elizabeth and Philip av Tessa Dunlop

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<p><b>''A riveting take on an extraordinary relationship'' - Richard Eden, Daily Mail</b><br><br><b>''A fresh and original approach'' - Hugo Vickers, Royal Biographer</b><br><br>She was ''sugar pink'' innocence; he was a handsome war hero. Both had royal blood coursing through their veins. The marriage of Britain''s Princess Elizabeth to Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten in November 1947 is remembered as the beginning of an extraordinary, lifelong union but success was not guaranteed. <i><b>Elizabeth and Philip: A Story of Young Love, Marriage and Monarchy</b></i> plunges us back into the 1940s when a teenage princess fell in love with a foreign prince. Cue fears of a flirtatious ''Greek'' fortune hunter stealing off with Britain''s crown jewel and Philip''s supporters scrambling to reframe him as a good fit for the Royal Family. <br><br>Drawing on original newspaper archives and the opinions of Elizabeth and Philip''s contemporaries, historian Dr Tessa Dunlop discovers a post-war world on