British Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh mark their 60th wedding anniversary with a series of celebration events. Photo by BBC
British Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh mark their 60th wedding anniversary with a series of celebration events.
On Tuesday, the actual anniversary date, the couple will attend a service at London's Westminster Abbey, where they were married.
The Royal family will be joined by some 2,000 people, including more than 30 family members. Their grandson, Prince William, will deliver a reading during the solemn event.
Other couples, who married on the same day, along with choristers from the royal wedding, will be among the guests at the service.
Then, the Queen and the Duke will visit Parliament Square to unveil a Jubilee Walkway plaque.
The royal couple will travel to Malta on Tuesday where they lived as a young married couple from 1949 to 1951, while Prince Philip was stationed there as a serving Royal Naval officer.
The couple received gifts from around the world 60 years ago.
The Queen is the first British monarch to reach a diamond wedding anniversary.
On Sunday, members of the Royal family attended a celebration dinner hosted by Prince Charles at Clarence House.