Photograph showing half-length, double portrait with Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten (1921-2021), (left) with arms folded, facing the viewer. He wears Naval uniform. On the right is seated Princess Elizabeth (b.1926) wearing a pearl necklace, also facing the viewer. Mounted.

On 10 July 1947 the engagement between Princess Elizabeth and Lt Philip Mountbatten was made public. In February that year, Prince Philip had renounced his Greek royal title and become a naturalised British citizen with the surname Mountbatten. The day before the wedding Lieutenant Mountbatten was created HRH The Duke of Edinburgh.