A new portrait of the Queen and Prince Philip has been released to mark their 70th wedding anniversary.
The royal couple will mark Monday’s platinum anniversary with a private dinner with family and friends at Windsor Castle.The bells of Westminster Abbey, where they married in 1947, will toll to mark the occasion. Royal Mail has issued a set of six commemorative stamps, featuring the couple’s engagement and wedding.The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh are the first royal couple to celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary. When they married, the then Princess Elizabeth was 21-years-old while her groom, Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, was 26.Photo Credit: PA