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Queen Elizabeth of England and Prince Philip celebrate their 73rd marriage on Friday, an occasion that they will not be able to celebrate with the rest of the family given the general isolation that England currently imposes to limit the spread of the Corona virus..
Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip celebrate their wedding anniversary
Elizabeth (94) and Philip (99) were married at Westminster Abbey in London on November 20, 1947, just two years after the end of World War II..
To celebrate the anniversary, Buckingham Palace posted a photo of the smiling Queen and her husband looking at a greeting card from their grandchildren Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis, along with other cards and messages..
The photo was taken at Windsor Castle, the Queen’s residence in west London, where the couple are staying during public isolation..
In a nod to her early days of marriage, Elizabeth wore a sapphire and diamond brooch that was featured in photos taken of her in Broadlands, southern England, during the early part of her honeymoon..
The couple met when they attended the wedding of Philip’s cousin, Princess Marina of Greece, to Elizabeth’s uncle, Duke of Kent, in 1934..
Philip attracted the attention of his future wife when the 13-year-old princess visited with her parents the British Royal Naval College in Dartmouth, in south-west England, where he was a student..
While royal family observers say Isabel and Felipe went through ups and downs like any other couple, they avoided the suffering of three of their four children whose marriages ended in divorce, most notably the marriage of their eldest son, Prince Charles, to his late first wife, Princess Diana..
When the couple celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary in 1997, Elizabeth said, “It has simply been my strength throughout these years.“.
