“She gives over a maternal feeling.
She’s a safe pair of hands at the top.
No one else has ever been able to convey that as she did.”
The couple got engaged in 1947 and would go on to tie the knot that same year.
Together, they would have four children and stay together until Philip’s passing in 2021.
It’s no surprise that the queen struggled with the duke’s death.
“I think she ultimately died of a broken heart, really,” Nicholl shared.
“She was never the same after Philip went.
They’d been together for 74 years.
He was, she said, her strength and stay.
He supported her in everything she did in life.
She swore in her new Prime Minister.
