Growing Old Together: Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip
AI translated from the original Chinese.
The biggest international news lately is surely the death of the Queen of the United Kingdom, the focus of the world's attention.
Besides being revered by her people, the Queen's married life in fact had no great storms in her whole life: all peaceful, and growing old together. Let's talk about that marriage!
Case Summary
From Wikipedia, a brief account of the courtship and marriage of the Queen and Prince Philip:
Age 1: born 02:40, April 21, 1926, in London, England
Age 14: 1939, met Philip and fell in love at first sight. They exchanged letters and fell in love.
Age 21: 1946, Philip proposed.
Age 22: 1947, married Philip.
Age 27: 1952, King George VI died and Elizabeth II acceded to the throne.
Age 96: 2021, Prince Philip died at the ripe age of 101.
Age 97: 2022, the Queen died.
(Ages are counted in the East Asian way.)
From 1939 to 2021, across 82 years from meeting to marriage and beyond, the Queen and Prince Philip had almost no negative news, so we can at least judge that they loved each other all their lives and grew old together. How does this show in the chart?
Let's look at the marriage variant chart.
The husband star, 太陽 (Tai Yang)
- 太陽 in 巳, strong
- 太陽 sees 祿存 (Lu Cun): excellent
- 太陽 sees 昌曲 (Chang Qu) and 魁鉞 (Kui Yue): promises a distinguished husband
- Lu stars concentrated on 太陽 in the 巳 Palace
Overall judgment: in marriage, the Queen had every chance of meeting a very fine partner.
Where the Lu stars concentrate: the 酉 Palace
- 太陰 (Tai Yin) in 酉, strong
- Besides 昌曲, 祿存 and 天鉞 (Tian Yue), 太陰 also sees 天姚 (Tian Yao), 咸池 (Xian Chi) and 紅鸞 (Hong Luan). A peaceful, elegant married life, the focus of everyone's attention.
Overall judgment: a peaceful, elegant married life that drew everyone's attention.
The Queen's main star 天同 (Tian Tong)
- 天同 in 卯, stem 辛: 巨門 (Ju Men) becomes 化祿, concentrating Lu stars on 天同
- The 卯 Palace has 天姚 and 咸池: a refined married life with plenty of charm
Prince Philip's main star 天府 (Tian Fu)
- 天府 in 申, sitting with 紫微 (Zi Wei): nobility. Prince Philip was himself a prince of Greece and Denmark, of exalted status.
- 天府 and 紫微 are benevolent stars, considerate of others.
- The 申 Palace holds 右弼 (You Bi). In my reading experience, when the main star of either spouse sees 左輔 (Zuo Fu) or 右弼, the relationship is generally excellent, mutually supportive, a very good partner. Let me take the opportunity to refute a common claim. Books on the market often say marriage doesn't need 左輔 or 右弼, and having them often means affairs, because a marriage doesn't need outside help. That claim is badly wrong. In my reading experience, seeing 左 and 右 is excellent: mutual support and consideration, the best of partners.
How Prince Philip shows up in the Queen's chart
- Prince Philip in 申, stem 丙, makes 天同 become 化祿, and 天同 happens to be the Queen's main star. The Prince surely cherished and protected the Queen, devoted to each other like a pair of lovebirds.
- The Prince in the 卯 Palace, stem 辛: 巨門 becomes 化祿, auspiciously transforming the Queen's 天同.
- Shifting the Prince's stems into the 巳 Palace of 太陽 yields the stem 癸: 太陽 becomes 化科, with no malefic stars damaging it
Overall judgment: a very good partner, together for life, growing old together.
To know and love each other for 82 years: such a long, steady love can't be said not to exist, but it is certainly rare.
All in all, Elizabeth II's life had much to revere, and even her married life was very happy. Truly a model for her age.