Queen celebrates diamond wedding

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Sixty years ago, a shy young princess walked down the aisle, in an ivory silk gown decorated with 10,000 pearls, crystals and an intricate 13ft train, in Westminster Abbey to get wed with the Duke of Edinburgh, Philip. The scenario is the same except that the time has clicked past six decades, and they are here to celebrate their diamond wedding anniversary. The first of its kind in British royal history.

The couple celebrated their anniversary a day before the wedding (Nov 19th ), in Westminster Abbey. 30 royals joined 2,000 guests to watch her Majesty, 81, and Prince Philip, 86, retrace their steps up the aisle. Religious leaders from the Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu and Sikh faiths were also present. The Queen was once more dressed in white. However she wore a diamond-encrusted brooch and diamante coat buttons in tribute to the diamond wedding. Six decades old kneeling stool made of orange boxes, used by the couple at their wedding were also put before them. At the end of the church service, both walked back up the aisle and met 10 couples who were also married on 20 November 1947.

The Couple are traveling to Malta today where they lived as a young married couple from 1949 to 1951.A splendid idea by Prince Philip to cherish the time they spent on Malta as a young couple, out of Britain and out of the spotlight in the years before she inherited the throne aged 25 in 1952. Prince Philip was stationed there as a serving Royal Naval officer then. The former Queen of Malta and her husband will be guests of the republic's government.

While the world congratulates the happy and exemplar couples, they are up in Malta recollecting their joyous youthful moments and the six decades age old stories.