The Queen and Prince Philip: 70 years of Royal marriage
Monday 20 November 2017 15:25, UK
Alix Culbertson, News Reporter
The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh have marked their 70th wedding anniversary.
Here is a look back at their life together.
:: July 1947: Engagement
Princess Elizabeth, then 21-years-old, got engaged to Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark in July 1947 after meeting at the Royal Naval College in Dartmouth eight years earlier.
She said she fell in love with Philip then and they began to exchange letters.
:: November 1947: Wedding
Elizabeth and Philip were married on 20 November 1947 at Westminster Abbey.
As Britain had not yet recovered from the war, she had to use ration coupons to buy material for her gown, designed by Norman Hartnell.
:: November 1948: Prince Charles' birth
The couple's first child, Charles, was born on 14 November 1948, and christened the following month.
:: June 1953: Coronation
Princess Elizabeth learned that her father had died and she was to become Queen while she and Prince Philip were in Kenya in February 1952 on the way to tour Australia and New Zealand.
On 2 June 1953, aged 25, she was crowned Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey.
:: November 1953 - May 1954: First overseas visit as Queen
Elizabeth made her first of 271 foreign trips to 128 countries as Queen only a few months after her coronation.
The new Queen and her husband, with Prince Charles and Princess Anne, started off her reign by going on her longest ever tour of Commonwealth nations.
They visited 13 countries in the West Indies, Australasia, Asia and Africa.
:: November 1972: Silver wedding anniversary
The Queen and Prince Philp celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary in 1972 with a series of celebrations, including a carriage procession and a service of thanksgiving in St Paul's Cathedral.
:: June 1977: Silver Jubilee
The Queen marked 25 years on the throne with parties and parades throughout the UK and the Commonwealth - culminating in June with the official "Jubilee Days" which coincided with the Queen's official birthday.
:: July 1981: Prince Charles and Diana's wedding
The marriage of Prince Charles and the 20-year-old Lady Diana Spencer took place at St Paul's Cathedral - and was televised globally.
:: June 1982: Prince William's birth
The Queen's third grandchild, and second in line to the throne, was born in June 1982 and was christened in the Music Room of Buckingham Palace in August, surrounded by family.
:: August 1997: Diana's death
Diana's death plunged the nation into mourning - and the Royal family into deep crisis as the Queen's response was seen by many as out of step with the mood of the country.
The Queen returned from Balmoral to London to view tens of thousands of tributes left for Diana at Kensington Palace.
:: November 2007: Diamond anniversary
The Queen and Prince Philip celebrated 60 years of marriage with a service at Westminster Abbey which included a reading from Prince William and Dame Judi Dench.
:: April 2011: The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's wedding
The Queen and Prince Philip celebrated the marriage of their grandson, Prince William, at Westminster Abbey in 2011 after he proposed to Kate Middleton in Kenya - where the Queen found out she was to take the throne 59-years earlier.
:: May 2012: Diamond Jubilee
The UK and Commonwealth nations celebrated the Queen's 60 years on the throne with commemorative events, including the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant which involved 670 boats sailing down the River Thames through London.
:: February 2017: Sapphire Jubilee
Queen Elizabeth II marked 65-years of her reign in 2017 with a gun salute at the Tower of London and several other places around the UK, and the ringing of bells in Westminster Abbey.
She is the first British monarch to celebrate a Sapphire Jubilee and is the longest-reigning living monarch, following the death of Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej in 2016 after 70 years and four months on the throne.
:: November 2017
The couple mark their 70th wedding anniversary - and three new photos are released.