represent all the years of her reign going across 60 years." 16:20 Donna Bowater is out on the Mall talking to the crowds. She's written in with a touching love story: For all the sentimentality brought out by the Diamond Jubilee, I have yet to come across a more romantic story linking the Royal Family to the lives of the everyday public than the story of Elizabeth Bird and her late husband Rex. In 1953, Mrs Bird was a young teenage woman on The Mall to celebrate the Queen's Coronation when she met a young man who was a brewer but was thinking of going into the ministry. The pair talked, and he took her hand, telling her he would look after her through the crowds. They parted afterwards but some years later, he wrote to Elizabeth asking if she would like to meet up. They met a number of times before marrying in 1958 and Mr Bird became the Reverend Rex Bird of Lavernham, Suffolk. Rex and Elizabeth would have celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary two weeks after Mr Bird's death, aged 78, in 2008. They managed to celebrate their golden wedding anniversary days before, receiving letters of congratulations from the Queen and the then Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Returning to the place where they met today to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, Mrs Bird, now 77, said: "Sixty years ago, I met my husband on The Mall. I had to be here; I've got lovely memories. It was