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Wednesday, 08 August 2007 |
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Buckingham Palace is celebrating the 60-year anniversary of the Queen and Prince Philip with a small
exhibition of wedding gifts, diamond jewellery as well as the dress and 13-foot bridal veil designed by Norman Hartnell.
The exhibition, "A Royal Wedding: 20 November 1947," includes such items such as a piece of lace hand-spun by Mahatma Gandhi for the royal couple; porcelain chocolate pots from Pope Pius XII, and a Singer sewing machine from the provost and council of the town of Clydebank, Scotland.
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