Royal Couple Marks 60th Wedding Anniversary

Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh will mark their 60th wedding anniversary on November 20. Elizabeth II is the first reigning English monarch to celebrate 60 years of marriage. Celebrations are planned all over the UK to honour the royal couple.

The royal couple will celebrate their wedding with a service of thanksgiving on Monday at Westminster Abbey, where they will be joined by about 2,000 guests including 30 members of the royal family. Political, religious, and military leaders and dignitaries will also be among the guests. Members of the public who were also married on November 20, 1947 will also be in attendance.

German members of Prince Philip’s family, who were not invited to the wedding, will join in the 60-year celebration. Philip’s German relatives were not initially invited to the post-war wedding in keeping with the British public’s strong anti-German sentiment at the time.

Following the ceremony, the royal couple will unveil a commemorative panel in Parliament Square. Other celebrations will continue throughout the week. A web site devoted to the Royal Wedding can be found here.

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