Britain’s Queen Elizabeth is driven past well-wishers during celebrations for the Queen’s 90th birthday, in Windsor, Britain April 21, 2016.
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As dusk approached on her milestone birthday, he said: “Your Majesty, Mummy, I find it very hard to believe you’ve reached your 90th year and I suddenly realised the other day that I’ve known you since you were 22 years old. She meets so many people over the years, but she still made it special for me”.
As a young princess, Elizabeth had not expected to become monarch as her father George VI only took the crown when his elder brother Edward VIII abdicated in 1936 to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson.
“If she spends a little bit more time in Windsor Castle, so be it, but I can assure you, that she will continue to be a, you know, very active head of state and do as much as she possibly can”. “I had to give it to her lady-in-waiting as it was so heavy, which amused the Queen”. In London, there were due to be artillery gun salutes at Hyde Park and the Tower of London and parliament was to be lit up red, white and blue.
Philip stopped to talk to the pair and Ms Martin said later: “He asked me what I do and where I live and I told him I’m Sandra, I live in Brixton and I appear on TV”.
She’s a 90-year-old monarch who’s been on the throne for 64 years. Now, it’s the turn of Queen Elizabeth II!
In the evening, the queen was lighting the first in a chain of 1,000 commemorative beacons to blaze across Britain and around the world, before attending a private family party at the castle.
She has weathered tough years when the divorces of three of her children tarnished the monarchy.
Aside from her recent photoshoot with Leibovitz, Queen Elizabeth also had her pictures taken together with her son, Prince Charles, her grandson, Prince William, and her great-grandson, Prince George. And she came back from the death of Princess Diana in a 1997 vehicle crash, when the royal family was criticized as being out of touch with the public’s grief.
On June 11 comes the monarch’s “official” birthday, traditionally marked by the Trooping the Color military parade.
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One of the images, released Thursday by Buckingham Palace, shows the queen with two grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. We were on Eton Bridge in Windsor and there was a big group of tourists there.
