At the time of their wedding Philip's title was Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh, not Prince, and the Queen was still Princess Elizabeth. If their family names had not been Anglicised earlier in the century, it would have been a Saxe-Coburg-Gotha / Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg wedding instead of a Windsor / Mountbatten one.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Silver Wedding of Queen & Prince Philip
Commemorated ati
Bedford 1972
We believe that the crown and the 'B' are indicative of the Bedford Estates a...
Royal Silver Wedding at Barbican
Her Majesty the Queen accompanied by His Royal Highness, the Prince Philip Du...
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King Canute / Cnut
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King Henry VIII
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Greenwich Palace / Palace of Placentia
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King William IV, Duke of Clarence
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