Today’s nostalgia section looks at previous occasions when Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip spent time in Cumbria.

On the 20th of November 1947, the then Princess Elizabeth married Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten at Westminster Abbey.

The pair first met in 1934 at the wedding of Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark to Prince George, Duke of Kent. After getting engaged in July 1947, the couple married four months later in front of 2,000 guests, the ceremony was also recorded and broadcast by BBC Radio to 200 million people around the world.

Throughout their 73-year marriage, both Her Royal Highness and the Duke of Edinburgh visited Cumbria on a number of occasions.

The most famous visit to Cumbria by a young Queen Elizabeth was on October 17th 1956, when she officially opened the world’s first commercial nuclear power station Calder Hall.

It was just three years after her Coronation when she performed the opening and visited other parts of the borough on that visit.

The previous year, on November 24, 1955, Prince Philip had donned a hard hat to go down the anhydrite drift mine during a royal visit to the Marchon works.

The Duke of Edinburgh returned in the 1980s to open the new Sellafield Visitor Centre.

Prince Philip sadly passed away in April at the age of 96. Honouring him after news of his death was announced, HM Lord- Lieutenant for Cumbria, Mrs Claire Hensman said: “The Duke was well known to us locally here in Cumbria: a keen carriage driver, he was a regular competitor in our County.

"His list of patronages also extends to a number of Cumbrian organisations, particularly the two Outward Bound Trust centres, which he visited regularly. The Duke will be greatly missed and our thoughts and sympathy are with Her Majesty the Queen and the Royal Family at this difficult and painful time.”

Today we look at past events concerning both the Queen and Prince Philip.