The Queen’s cousin the Duke of Gloucester and his spouse the Duchess of Gloucester are celebrating their golden wedding ceremony anniversary.
The pair – who’ve supported the monarch for many years by finishing up official royal duties – reached 50 years of marriage on Friday and their milestone was marked with a brand new portrait.
Richard and Birgitte, who wed on 8 July 1972, have been photographed earlier this week within the backyard of their Kensington Palace residence.
The duke, 77, was stood along with his arm proudly round his spouse’s shoulder, whereas the smiling duchess, in an appropriately golden yellow shirt costume and gold chain necklaces, held her glasses in her hand.
Birgitte, 76, was additionally carrying a treasured brooch designed by her husband and manufactured from an entwined R and B.
(Buckingham Palace by way of Getty Imag)
The duke, born Prince Richard of Gloucester, met his Danish future spouse, Birgitte van Deurs, who was finding out on the Bell College of Languages, at Cambridge College in 1965.
He lower quick a promising profession as an architect when seven weeks after their wedding ceremony his older brother Prince William of Gloucester died tragically in a aircraft crash.
Richard shouldered the royal duty as inheritor to his father, Henry, Duke of Gloucester – one among George VI’s brothers.
The newlywed Gloucesters launched into a lifetime of responsibility that they had not anticipated.
They’ve spent 50 years as working royals, visiting charities and organisations and finishing up a whole bunch of royal engagements, that are listed within the day by day Court docket Round however hardly ever reported on within the media.
The duke sees his position as supporting his first cousin the Queen and serving to share the duty of regional visits.
The Gloucesters have three kids – the Earl of Ulster, Girl Davina Windsor and Girl Rose Gilman.
