When the two announced their engagement,The Guardianpraised their pairing as a genuine love match.
“It is clearly a marriage of choice, not of arrangement… Before marrying the future Queen,Prince Philipenjoyed his own thriving career in the military.
The cruisers just burst into tremendous sheets of flame.”
The ruse worked; the Germans began to attack the raft instead.
Harry Hargreaves, who served alongside Prince Philip that day, recalled the scary incident.
“Within five minutes they launched a raft over the side at each end was fastened a smoke float.
