‘ALL THESE YEARS’: QUEEN, PRINCE PHILIP MARK THEIR 70TH ANNIVERSARY
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, celebrated 70 years of marriage on Monday, the longest union of any monarch in British history.
The palace released a number of photographs by the celebrity photographer Matt Holyoak to mark the anniversary.
The Royal Mail also issued new stamps to commemorate the anniversary.
On Monday, bells rang out from Westminster Abbey, the church where the couple were married. The tolling began at 1 p. m. and lasted several hours.
The Queen, 91, appointed her husband Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order ( GCVO), honouring him f or “services to the sovereign.”
The gesture will be seen as formal recognition of the devotion the Duke has shown through seven dec- ades of marriage.
On their 50th anniversary, she described Prince Philip as “someone who doesn’t take easily to compliments, but he has, quite simply, been my strength and stay all these years.”