Queen Elizabeth met Philip for the first time when she was 13 years old and he was 18. He was tasked with entertaining her and her younger sister during a trip to the Royal Naval College.
They continued to meet occasionally over the following years and their friendship eventually developed into romance. They got engaged in 1947, when the Queen was 21 and Prince Philip was 26.
They broke up after dating at university, but got back together later. They were married 10 years after they first met!
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry were set up on a blind date by a mutual friend in 2016.
In an interview they both said it was refreshing because Harry wasn't familiar with Meghan and Meghan wasn't too familiar with the British royals.
Prince Charles and Lady Diana first met when he visited her family's country home to attend a grouse hunt. She was 16 years old at the time and he was 28.
Charles first dated Diana's older sister, Sarah, but obviously it didn't work out! Charles and Diana finally started dating when Diana was 18 years old.
It seems that Camilla Parker Bowles was always Prince Charle's true love. The pair met long before Diana was in the picture. They had an on-again, off-again relationship that would carry on for the following decades.
They reportedly met at a polo match in 1970 and were smitten with each other. The relationship ended when Charles joined the Royal Navy and Camilla later got married to Andrew Parker Bowles.
The Queen's daughter, Princess Anne, met her first husband Captain Mark Philips in Mexico at an event for horse riding enthusiasts. They both competed at an Olympic level and had much in common.
They got married in 1973, but divorced in 1992 after drifting apart. Scandal broke when it was discovered that Philips had fathered a child outside of their marriage, and some romantic letters addressed to Princess Anne from another man were exposed.
Prince Edward, the Queen's youngest son, met Sophie Rhys-Jones in 1987 when he was dating her friend. They met again at a charity event in 1993, and romance bloomed from there.
The two were engaged in January 1999, and married in June of that same year. They have two children: Lady Louise Windsor and James, Viscount Severn, the latter of whom is Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip's youngest grandchild.
Princess Diana was a childhood friend of Sarah's and brought her into the fold of the royal family. She invited her to an event during the Royal Ascot in 1985, where Andrew and Sarah connected.
Princess Diana encouraged their romance, inviting them to her country home. Within less than a year, the couple were engaged. They later had a very public divorce, but have remained close.
Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson's youngest daughter, Princess Eugenie, is happily paired off. She reportedly met her future husband at Verbier, a Swiss ski resort favored by the royal family.
Brooksbank is said to be a distant royal relative, so the pair moved in the same circles. They started dating in 2011.
They got married in 2018, a few months after Eugenie's cousin, Prince Harry.
Princess Eugenie's older sister Beatrice was married in May of 2020. Her romance developed over many years with the Italian royal Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi.
Mozzi was a family friend, which allowed them to grow close. Princess Beatrice gained the title of countess, or contessa, through their marriage.
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Most royal love stories are extraordinarily ordinary. Falling in love with a prince sounds like something out of a Disney movie, but in real life many of these relationships tend to occur just like any other! They meet through friends and bond over shared interests—the only difference is that their friends are lords and ladies and their interests are horses and skiing!
Click through the following gallery to discover the origin stories of the most famous royal romances.
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Most royal love stories are extraordinarily ordinary. Falling in love with a prince sounds like something out of a Disney movie, but in real life many of these relationships tend to occur just like any other! They meet through friends and bond over shared interests—the only difference is that their friends are lords and ladies and their interests are horses and skiing!
Click through the following gallery to discover the origin stories of the most famous royal romances.