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QUEEN CELEBRATES 96TH BIRTHDAY IN SANDRINGHAM

By Sean Coughlan
Royal correspondent

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A photograph for the Queen's birthday reflects her lifelong interest in horses

The Queen is celebrating her 96th birthday on Thursday in Sandringham.

Britain's longest-reigning monarch travelled by helicopter to her Norfolk
estate, where she will be joined by family and friends.

She is expected to stay in a cottage on the estate particularly liked by her
late husband, Prince Philip.

A photograph has been released to mark the birthday, showing the Queen with two
ponies and reflecting her lifelong interest in horses.

The picture was taken at Windsor Castle, where the Queen now mostly stays, and
shows her with two Fell ponies, who will appear in the forthcoming Royal Windsor
Horse Show.


BIRTHDAY WISHES

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge wished the Queen happy birthday on Twitter,
calling the monarch an "inspiration to so many across the UK, the Commonwealth
and the world", and sharing a photo of the Queen and Prince Philip with seven of
their great-grandchildren.


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on Twitter

Alongside birthday wishes, Buckingham Palace tweeted a picture of a two-year-old
Princess Elizabeth from 1928.

The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.View original tweet
on Twitter

Prince Harry suggested in a US TV interview that the Queen might be downplaying
this latest milestone, saying that "after a certain age you get bored of
birthdays".

But she will be spending time at Wood Farm, a cottage described as "small and
intimate" by former housekeeper Teresa Thompson, and a place with strong
associations with Prince Philip, who died a little over a year ago.

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The Queen was in Sandringham earlier this year when she marked her accession to
the throne in 1952.

She was born in 1926, not in a royal residence, but in a London townhouse on
Bruton Street, where she first lived with her father and mother, who became King
George VI and Queen Elizabeth.

Image source, Universal History Archive / Getty Images
Image caption,
The house on Bruton Street where the Queen was born was demolished in the 1930s

Birthday wishes have been sent by Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Labour leader
Sir Keir Starmer and gun salutes will be fired.



The prime minister also paid tribute to the monarch's "dedicated and faultless
service" in a pre-recorded address posted on Twitter.

The Queen has had mobility problems in recent months and has had to miss a
number of events, including church services over Easter.

Her only public appearance this year, outside of her own residences or on video,
was at the Thanksgiving Service for Prince Philip at Westminster Abbey.

The Queen's 96th birthday marks another unprecedented age for a British monarch,
in a year in which she has become the first monarch to celebrate a Platinum
Jubilee of 70 years on the throne.

The next longest-lived monarchs were Queen Victoria and George III, who lived to
the age of 81, and were the only other monarchs to have lived into their 80s.

According to figures from the Office for National Statistics, the Queen is one
of about 124,000 people in the 95 to 99 age group in the UK, almost three
quarters of these being women.



Although 21 April is the day the Queen was born, it is not her only birthday.
The monarch also has an official birthday celebration on the second Saturday of
June, a tradition which began because her great-grandfather Edward VII's
birthday was in November, when the weather is generally less favourable for a
birthday parade.

The Queen's official birthday is marked each year by the military parade
Trooping the Colour. This year, the parade will take place on Thursday 2 June to
coincide with the Platinum Jubilee.

A number of commemorative items are being produced to mark the Jubilee. Among
them is a Barbie doll, featuring a recreation of her wedding tiara and an ivory
gown fitted with a blue ribbon.

Image source, Mattel


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