The Wedding Register from Westminster Abbey for 70 years ago today.
Today the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh reach a milestone that few couples ever reach: their platinum wedding anniversary.
This afternoon at Bermondsey Brew we got talking about the royal marriage. 'What was the secret of their success' we asked ourselves.
Then we had the answer: they kept their promise.
There's a great prayer in the marriage service that I love. It begins 'Blessed are you, O Lord our God, for you have created joy and gladness, pleasure and delight, love, peace and fellowship' and then goes on to pray for the couple in these words: 'Let their love for each other be a seal upon their hearts and a crown upon their heads. Bless them in their work and in their companionship; awake and asleep, in joy and in sorrow, in life and in death. Finally, in your mercy, bring them to that banquet where your saints feast for ever in your heavenly home.'
That's a great prayer for any couple and its a great prayer to pray today for our Queen and her husband. May God bless them richly.
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