A Rare New Photo of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip Is Released to Celebrate the Prince's 99th Birthday
Prince Philip is entering his 100th year on June 10, and the royal family is celebrating by releasing a new photograph of Philip and Queen Elizabeth.
The sweet image was taken at Windsor Castle on June 1. For the dual portrait, Philip donned a Household Division tie, and the Queen wore a dress by Angela Kelly (her long-serving dressmaker) paired with the Cullinan V brooch. The heart-shaped diamond at the center of the brooch was fitting for the occasion.
The Prince and the Queen are both currently practicing social distancing at Windsor Castle, where they've been staying amid the pandemic since mid-March. Tentpole royal events, like the Queen's annual garden parties, have been canceled or rescheduled for next year; others, like Trooping the Colour, will take place in a much smaller form, without any crowds.
"The Queen won’t do anything which goes against the advice of people in her [age] category and she’s going to take all the appropriate advice," a source told the Times earlier this month.
"There are discussions about what we could and couldn’t do come October. We haven’t canceled a load of engagements, but nothing is going into Her Majesty’s diary at the moment. If there is advice in the coming months that it’s fine for her to come back to London, she may do that, but until that time, she’d want to be seen to be being responsible in her actions for the nation."
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