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David Powell & Stephen Pitts

Meet the royal fans whose marriage spans two coronations

A Welsh couple are getting ready to watch their second coronation as a married couple - 70 years after watching their first. Albert, 93, and Kathleen Ormrod, 89, watched the late Queen's coronation together in 1953 and are celebrating their Platinum wedding anniversary in another Coronation year.

North Wales Live says that the devotion which the couple, of Llandudno Junction, Conwy County Borough, have shown each other is reminiscent of the love between Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth II. And it's set to last all the way to another Coronation - of King Charles III and Camilla as Queen at Westminster Abbey on Saturday, May 6.

Granddaughter Katie O'Reilly told North Wales Live how her grandparents' romance first bloomed at Trafford Park in Manchester in summer of 1952. She said: "A friend at work told Albert that he had got a date with this beautiful girl called Kathleen from Sale and asked if he would come on a double date with her friend.

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