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It's one of Prince Philip's most touching pictures ever taken. He is clutching the hand of a four-year-old boy in a white coat, looking down at him with obvious indignation, as the boy's mother looks at the Duke's eyes, expressing her gratitude. Jacqueline Kennedy, the widow of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, who had been brutally murdered by an assassin's bullet just 18 months earlier, was of course.

No accident barriers, lighting, or hard shoulder were present on the M1's first major highway in the early days of its construction, which had opened in 1959, and there was no traffic jams, lighting, or hard shoulder. Oh, and there was also no speed limit. Jack Sears, the racing driver, decided to try his AC Cobra sports car before the 24-hour race in Le Mans, and made a few runs up and down the M1 motorway from Watford Gap service station at 185 mph. In the parking lot, two policemen were compelled to Sears: they wanted to see round the Cobra.

Queen Elizabeth II hosted President John F. Kennedy and his wife, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, at Buckingham Palace in June 1961. Jackie had a more formal one-on-one lunch meeting with the monarch in March 1962. Queen Elizabeth mourned the death of President Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, in November 1963, when she had a bell ring in Westminster Abbey. In 1965, she dedicated a memorial to JFK at Runnymede on an acre of land that had been donated to the US Queen Elizabeth's JFK and Jackie, one of many links between their two families. In the years after President Kennedy's assassination, the royals have continued to pay their respects to him.