Her children's marriages didn't last, but hers did - and Queen Elizabeth II is inviting other long-married couples to a 50th anniversary bash.
The queen on Monday invited other couples married in 1947 to apply for the 4,000 invitations to her July 15 party in the palace gardens. Applications - accompanied by a marriage certificate - must be in by Feb. 14.The queen, then 21-year-old Princess Elizabeth, married Greek-born Prince Philip, a descendant of Danish, Greek and Russian royalty, at Westminster Abbey on Nov. 20, 1947.
The marriages of the queen's eldest sons, Prince Charles to Princess Diana, and Prince Andrew to the former Sarah Ferguson, ended in divorce last year. Her only daughter, Princess Anne, wasdivorced in 1992.