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Happy 88th Birthday Your Majesty

~SALUTE~

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The Queen's 88th birthday is being marked across the UK with traditional gun salutes.

A 41-gun royal salute was fired in Green Park in London and a 62 gun-salute from the Tower of London.

In Scotland, gunners from 105th Regiment Royal Artillery have fired two 21-gun royal salutes at Edinburgh and Stirling Castles.

The monarch is spending the day privately at Windsor Castle.

The Queen was born on 21 April 1926 at the home of her mother's parents in Mayfair. However, her birthday is also celebrated officially each year in June at the Trooping the Colour service - which this year will take place on 14 June.

The gun salute at Green Park was carried out by the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery using 13-pounder World War One guns drawn by 71 horses.

Before the King's Troop arrived, the Band of the Honourable Artillery Company and Royal Yeomanry played celebratory music.

The salute at the Tower was completed by the Honourable Artillery Company.

Gunners from 105th Regiment Royal Artillery have fired two 21-gun royal salutes in Scotland; while in Wales, the salute was fired at Cardiff City Hall. The salute in Northern Ireland was due to be carried out at Hillsborough Castle in County Down.

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Royal Salutes

Gun salutes are fired as a sign of respect or welcome
The basic royal salute is 21 rounds, however Royal Parks add an extra 20
The Tower of London fires the standard 21, then another 20 because it is a royal palace and then another 21 for "the City of London"
A total of 124 guns are fired at the Tower whenever Trooping The Colour coincides with the Duke of Edinburgh's birthday on 10 June
Other countries which carry out 21-gun salutes for royalty include Canada, Denmark and Sweden

Awww bless! :salute:

Onya Maj.

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Jim sweetie pie the OBE and MBE are in the post.

Her Majesty has been Canada's constitutional monarch for all but 2 years of my life. Happy birthday and many more.

God Save The Queen. :salute:

HRH E.R. II:Kaleun_Party::Kaleun_Applaud::Kaleun_Cheers:

Queen Elisabeth has been Queen for all the time i can think of,
so Happy Birthday from Hannover, and the former personal union :sunny:

B.t.w.:
"The name Saxe-Coburg-Gotha came to the British Royal Family in 1840 with the marriage of Queen Victoria to Prince Albert, son of Ernst, Duke of Saxe-Coburg & Gotha. Queen Victoria herself remained a member of the House of Hanover.
The only British monarch of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha was King Edward VII, who reigned for nine years at the beginning of the modern age in the early years of the twentieth century.

King George V replaced the German-sounding title with that of Windsor during the First World War. The name Saxe-Coburg-Gotha survived in other European monarchies, including the current Belgian Royal Family and the former monarchies of Portugal and Bulgaria."

Long live the Queen.:up:

Funny age for that queen.

Was thinking she was older, though. :hmm2:

88 is getting up there. She has seen quite a bit of history!

Happy Birthday to Her Majesty!

(I hear she's a pretty nice girl, but she doesn't have a lot to say...)

<O>

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Originally Posted by vienna (Post 2200282)

Happy Birthday to Her Majesty!

(I hear she's a pretty nice girl, but she doesn't have a lot to say...)

<O>

So, she just points to get what she wants?:O:

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Originally Posted by vienna (Post 2200282)

Happy Birthday to Her Majesty!

(I hear she's a pretty nice girl, but she doesn't have a lot to say...)

<O>

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Originally Posted by Wolferz (Post 2200771)

So, she just points to get what she wants?:O:

Sometimes. But she changes from day to day. :03:

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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk (Post 2200279)

88 is getting up there. She has seen quite a bit of history!

Yeah, a lot more than most monarchs alive today.

I swore allegiance to the Queen in 1964, nobody has ever released me from that swearing in ceremony, so she is still my queen.
Happy Birthday Q.E. II and many more.

I have done a couple of school exchanges with the Brits, e.g. here: http://www.kingswood.bath.sch.uk/ to prevent further wars.

To my school exchange student I once have sent an Official Royal Quuen postcard where I had coloured one of her theeth black, so that she looks like Alfred E, Neumann from "Mad"-Magazine.

That did not came good.

The US guy who was a son of a jet fighter pilot phoned home: "Mum, Dad , the Kraut's are here at Kingswood School, Bath"
http://www.kingswood.bath.sch.uk/old-kingswoodians/

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Originally Posted by swamprat69er (Post 2200903)

I swore allegiance to the Queen in 1964, nobody has ever released me from that swearing in ceremony, so she is still my queen.
Happy Birthday Q.E. II and many more.

Same, albeit in 2001 for me :salute:

My best wishes and, all things considered, I am quite glad to be living during her reign here.

Yes, she very much looks like my grand mother, without the blackened theeth.

This is the pic of her that I like the best.

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Quite an attractive lady in her younger days.

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