QUEEN AND PRINCE PHILLIP'S LOVE WAS EXEMPLARY: SHE WILL MISS HIM MUCH.

"You will wear the crown of the people and I will wear the pants/trousers of the family. That way we will have a cordial, mutually respectful, long lasting relationship. You will be the Queen of England and I will be your husband and the man of the household." ICHEOKU says accordingly to the story, this is what Prince Phillip said to his  wife Queen Eliza when she was coronated Queen of England and it seems to have worked out so wonderfully well for the extraordinary coupe who spent 73 years of marital life together. 

Exactly the secret recipe for any successful marriage, definitive expectations; and each spouse respectfully maintaining their respective lanes of power and authority. Such leaves no room for confusion or the constant bumping into each other's sphere of responsibility due to muddled up terms without clarity. The Queen and Prince Philip's marital longevity is a testament that such clearly stipulated expectations really works. Prince Phillip, the Duke of Edinburg, was originally from Greece, a nation which understands how best a marriage works and he proved that he mastered the art of matrimony with the Queen of England. His wife, the  Queen, on her part is a good woman who respected her husband as the head of the household, despite being the head of all England and the Commonwealth. ICHEOKU says their union and longevity should be a recommended text of study for people wishing to enter into a marital relationship.  

ICHEOKU says you can easily decipher partners' love for each other by the way they look at themselves. There is this intense look of admiration, like you are looking at some precious beautiful work of art of inestimable value and cannot seem to ever have enough of it. A feeling of, is this real or am I in a dreamland wondering if I am this lucky to have the privilege of being with the person. You easily breaks out a smile for no apparent reason in particular, any time you are with the person or looking at the person or even thinks about the person. You are never tired of sharing your space with the person and every moment together is treasured and you wish it will last forever. It creates a lot of bubbles of joy in the heart and you desire the person's presence around you unceasingly. This was what the Prince and his Queen had for each other, which presupposes that a hole which cannot be filled has been left in the Queen's heart now that her soulmate has gone to rest.

It is a true definition of love which seldom obtains these days. She was richer than him when they met and remained so throughout their 73 years together, but that did not diminish him in her sight and estimation. She respected him as her husband. So, his money or lack of it did not buy her love which gives credence to the saying that money cannot buy love. They had a wonderful companionship too and of course their fair share of fights behind closed doors as couples do, but what held them together was greater and that was what exactly counted. But that is not to say that money cannot buy you a person or the company of a person, but it cannot ever buy you true love and real companionship, the type that pulls on the heart strings. Simply put, love is indescribable and you only feels it to know it. Queen Eliza loved her man and he loved her back; and they stood by each other right to the end. It was a thing of beauty to behold.  

ICHEOKU says is very impressed by their example and hopes the world of marital couples will be similarly impressed by the power of their example too. The only downside of such heartily bonding is that at such a time like present, when one of the spouse departs, it is hellish for the surviving spouse who will become literally lost without her companion and confidant of so many years. It leads to inconsolable grieving and a feeling of a cascading darkness rushing in to envelope your now empty world. So, it is understandable how empty the Queen must be feeling right now without her Prince Phillip; but nature called and nobody lives forever. They had a wonderful long life together and he will live in her memory as long as she too shall live. May the soul of Prince Phillip, the Duke of Edinburgh and the late husband of Queen Eliza of England now rest and may God provide her Majesty the fortitude to cope with his departure. What a couple.