60th Anniversary
The Queen and Prince Philip celebrate their 60th Wedding Anniversary on the 20th November 2007.
As part of their diamond wedding anniversary celebrations, a new exhibition called Royal Weddings 1840-1947 will open at Windsor Castle in summer 2007.
The exhibition will focus on the wedding of The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh, but will also cover four other royal weddings, including the wedding of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in 1840. Photographs, jewellery and even pieces of wedding cake will be displayed, along with many other items of wedding memorabilia.
Accompanying the exhibition is the book Five Gold Rings: A Royal Wedding Souvenir Album - from Queen Victoria to Queen Elizabeth II.
Royal Weddings 1840 - 1947 is at the Drawings Gallery, Windsor Castle, from April 27th until March 2008. See The Royal Collection for more details.
Royal Diamond Wedding Anniversary First Day Cover
Price - £15.00 ($30) - First day cover for Royal Mail’s stamp issue celebrating the royal 60th wedding anniversary. It has been designed by Mandy Searles of Massachusetts USA. Mandy also designed FDC 092, the 80th birthday issue.
It is a limited edition of just 250. The unique first day of issue cancel is in silver. Together with FDC 092 and other “Royal” covers they make beautiful and rare display pieces.
Buyers in the UK and Europe should contact Bletchley Park and buyers in the USA should contact Mandy’s British Royalty for covers.
The Queen’s Royal Diamond Wedding Anniversary Stamps
Top Row:
1st class The Queen and Prince Philip leave St Paul’s Cathedral after a thanksgiving service for her 80th and his 85th birthdays; The Queen and Prince Philip inspect the King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery in Regents Park, 30 April 1997.
Lower row:
54p The Queen and Prince Philip at the Garter Ceremony, Windsor, 16 June 1980; The Queen and Prince Philip at Royal Ascot, 1969;
78p The Queen and Prince Philip at the premier of The Guns of Navarone, 27 April 1961; Princess Elizabeth and Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten at Clydebank, 1947.
Miniature sheet:
1st Class - The Royal Family at Balmoral, 1972; The Queen and Prince Philip at Buckingham Palace by Lord Snowdon, 2007;
69p - The Royal Family at Windsor Castle, 1965;
78p - The Queen and Prince Philip with Prince Charles and Princess Anne at Balmoral, 1953.
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