Speaking on their golden wedding anniversary, Her Majesty said that our country owed her husband 'a greater debt than he would ever claim or we shall ever know', and I am sure that estimate is correct.
Their major wedding anniversaries have long been celebrated in England, with their twenty-fifth marked by a party that included other couples from around England who were also married on November 20th, 1947.
Someone who hits the ceiling -- the top of the room -- is violently angry. A wife may hit the ceiling because her husband forgot their wedding anniversary.
But it was his and Sophie's wedding anniversary, and these semi-unofficial trips with minimal security were the only ones Franz Josef allowed Sophie to go on.
Do you still" court" your wife with an occasional gift of flowers, with remembrances of her birthday and wedding anniversary, or with some unexpected attention, some unlooked-for tenderness?