Queen releases 60 wedding facts

The Duke of Edinburgh had two hart DOS before his wedding ceremony to the Queen and the royal couple were showered with rose flower petals as they headed off on honeymoon.

The information is among 60 facts released by Buckingham Palace to observe their diamond anniversary.

Another fact uncovers how their wedding ceremony bar on 20 November 1947 was 9ft (2.74m) high.

Royal household members will go to an event hosted by Prince Prince Charles later at Clarence House to toast the milestone.

The Queen is the first British sovereign to observe a diamond wedding ceremony anniversary.

The listing of wedding ceremony ceremony facts also disclosed that on the twenty-four hours of the wedding, the grave of the Unknown Warrior was the lone rock not covered by a particular rug inside City Of Westminster Abbey.

The twenty-four hours after the ceremony, the Queen followed a tradition started by her female parent of having her wedding ceremony corsage returned to the Abbey to be laid on the tombstone.

And among the 2,500 wedding ceremony shows were two braces of bed socks and a home-made tea tea cosy sent by members of the public.

Careful preparations

Buckingham Palace said Prince Prince Philip had his two hart political parties the nighttime before the wedding ceremony - the first, held at the Dorchester, saw the fourth estate being invited.

The 2nd proverb the bridegroom caput to the Campanile Baseball Club with a grouping of his closest friends.

Preparations for the historical event included the checking of BBC mikes owed to a former incident at a royal wedding ceremony in 1934, where the Abbey cross hit a mike which was hanging above the communion table steps.

The couple departed for their honeymoon in Broadlands in Hampshire, place of Prince Philip's uncle Earl Mountbatten, from Waterloo station, accompanied by Her Majesty's corgi, Susan.

On Monday, the twenty-four hours before their existent day of remembrance date, the royal couple will be attending a service at City Of Westminster Abbey, where they were married.

On the twenty-four hours of their 60th wedding ceremony anniversary, the royal couple will go to Republic Of Malta where they lived as a immature married couple from 1949 to 1951 while Prince Prince Philip was stationed there as a serving Royal Naval officer.