Queen Elizabeth II and prince Philip, weakened, will be celebrating their 70th wedding anniversary in the privacy – Gala

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On November 20, 2017, the queen of England Elizabeth II and her husband prince Philip will celebrate their wedding in platinum. An event which will be held in the privacy of Buckingham palace, as a family.

Elizabeth II beats all records of longevity. At the age of 91 years, the queen is the head of his kingdom for 65 years and is about to celebrate his 70th wedding anniversary with prince Philip. According to the information of Sky News, the royal couple will celebrate the wedding of platinum in the privacy of Buckingham Palace, the 20th of November next. If prince Philip had taken his pension in may last, the sovereign, who is still active, will be, on that day released from its commitments royal to dedicate herself entirely to her husband, weakened by his hospitalization.

Queen Elizabeth and prince Philip were respectively 8 and 13 years old when their paths crossed for the first time, in 1934, at the wedding of princess Marina of Greece, the cousin of the latter. But it was in 1939, when they met again on the occasion of a visit to the royal naval College royal of Dartmouth, of which Philip is out major of his promotion, that they fall in love.

Fools of one another, they married on 20 November 1947 at Westminster abbey in front of 2,000 guests. The first event royal since the end of the second world war. The day before, the young man agrees to renounce his Greek nationality, his Greek titles and Danish, as well as the orthodox religion by love. On the morning of the wedding, he is named duke of Edinburgh, earl of Merioneth and baron Greenwich by his father-in-law, king George VI.

“It has been, to put it simply, my strength and my stay all these years, told the queen about her husband, on the occasion of their golden wedding anniversary in 1997. Me-same as all of his family, we owe him a debt far greater than he would uphold, or that we are never aware of it. “

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Elizabeth of Englandand Prince Philip

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