New Royal Mail stamps to commemorate the 70th wedding anniversary of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh have been revealed.
The six stamps include an image of the royal couple on their honeymoon in the grounds of Broadlands, Romsey, Hampshire and looking at photographs of their wedding.
Another shows the royal couple walking down the aisle of Westminster Abbey after their wedding service on November 20 1947.
Two stamps mark their engagement announcement in July 1947, showing the couple at Buckingham Palace.
Royal Mail spokesman Philip Parker said: "A platinum wedding anniversary is rare, and for the Royal Family it is unique.
"We are delighted to issue these six stamps to mark Her Majesty's and the Duke of Edinburgh's 70 years of marriage."
The Queen, 91, and Prince Philip, 96, will celebrate their Platinum wedding anniversary on Monday.
They will be the first British Sovereign and consort to reach the milestone.
There will be no public celebration to acknowledge their wedding anniversary in contrast to their silver, golden and diamond anniversaries which were all marked publicly. This year they are expected to mark their platinum anniversary with a small family party at Windsor Castle, the monarch’s home to the west of London.
Princess Elizabeth, as she was at the time, married dashing naval officer Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten at London’s Westminster Abbey, just two years after the end of World War Two, in a lavish ceremony attended by statesmen and royalty from around the world.
The couple first met when they attended the wedding of Prince Philip’s cousin, Princess Marina of Greece, to Elizabeth’s uncle, the Duke of Kent, in 1934. The Queen, then Princess Elizabeth, was just eight years old.
They met again when she was 13 when she made a visit with her parents to Britain’s Royal Naval College at Dartmouth in southern England where he was a cadet.
Their engagement was announced in July 1947 and they married four months later.
