Queen releases 60 wedding facts


	Queen releases 60 wedding facts

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11-18-2007 8:36 AM

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<FONT size="2">The information is among 60 facts released by Buckingham Palace to celebrate their diamond anniversary.
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<FONT size="2">Another fact reveals how their wedding cake on 20 November 1947 was 9ft (2.74m) high.
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<FONT size="2">Royal family members will attend an event hosted by Prince Charles later at Clarence House to toast the milestone.
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<FONT size="2">The Queen is the first British monarch to celebrate a diamond wedding anniversary.
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<FONT size="2">The list of wedding facts also disclosed that on the day of the wedding, the grave of the Unknown Warrior was the only stone not covered by a special carpet inside Westminster Abbey.
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<FONT size="2">The day after the ceremony, the Queen followed a tradition started by her mother of having her wedding bouquet returned to the Abbey to be laid on the tombstone.</FONT></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/911F2284-45BD-460F-BE49-FF8287E6A26C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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