Pregnant Kate Middleton and Prince William beam as they arrive at Windsor Castle with Prince Harry to celebrate the Queen and Prince Philip’s 70th anniversary
The Queen's grandsons and Kate arrived for the monarch's platinum wedding anniversary party
A GLOWING Kate Middleton was pictured arriving at Windsor Castle with Prince William and Prince Harry to celebrate the Queen and Prince Philip's 70th anniversary.
The Queen's grandsons and the Duchess of Cambridge were pictured in the royal car at the monarch's Berkshire home where celebrations for her platinum wedding anniversary will be held.
William, 35, and Harry, 33, were dressed in black tie while Kate was wrapped up in a black coat for the occasion.
The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh are celebrating 70 years of marriage after saying their vows at Westminster Abbey on November 20 1947.
To mark the special occasion they released a series of images of the couple together.
The Queen beamed in a cream day dress by Angela Kelly which was finished off with a ‘Scarab’ yellow gold brooch – a personal gift from the prince to the Queen in 1966.
The Duke of Edinburgh looked handsome in a smart three-piece suit.
Earlier today Her Majesty, 91, presented her 96-year-old husband Philip by appointing him a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order for his services to the sovereign.
The bells of Westminster Abbey, where they married, will ring to mark the occasion.
The Queen and Philip attended thanksgiving services at the Abbey to commemorate their silver, golden and diamond wedding anniversaries, but this occasion is not being marked which such a service.
But the bells of Westminster Abbey, where they married, will ring to mark the occasion.
The Abbey in central London itself will mark the occasion with a full peal of its bells involving 5,070 change of sequences, with the 70 reflecting the anniversary, which will last more than three hours.
Prime Minister Theresa May sent her congratulations to couple on their "special" anniversary.
She tweeted: "Congratulations to The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh as they celebrate their Platinum Wedding anniversary.
"They have devoted their lives to the service of the UK and the Commonwealth - my best wishes to them both on this special occasion."
The wedding of Princess Elizabeth, as she then was, to the dashing naval officer Philip Mountbatten was seen as raising the nation's spirits amid an austere background of rationing and shortages that followed World War Two.
"Millions will welcome this joyous event as a flash of colour on the hard road we have to travel," said former Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
Five years later, Elizabeth succeeded her father George VI on the throne and has ruled for the following 65 years, more than any other monarch in British history, with Philip by her side throughout.
"The support he gives to my grandmother is phenomenal," Prince Harry said in a documentary to mark her 60th year on the throne.
"Regardless of whether my grandfather seems to be doing his own thing, sort of wandering off like a fish down the river, the fact that he's there - I personally don't think that she could do it without him."
While the couple's marriage has remained strong, three of their four children have seen their unions end in divorce, most notably heir Prince Charles's ill-fated union with his late first wife Princess Diana.
Royal historian Hugo Vickers said the secret of their long marriage was their mutual support and devotion to duty.
He said: "They don't waste a jot of time wondering whether we like them or not - they just get on with the job.
"On the occasions when I have been lucky enough to see them together, they always look incredibly comfortable in each other's company."
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