Today is Queen Elizabethâs actual birthday, not her fake birthday for Trooping the Colour. Sheâs 94 years old today. Since Britain is still in lockdown, there are no plans for any kind of party or dinner for the Queenâs birthday. She will spend the day as she has spent the past three weeks: in semi-isolation in Windsor Castle, with Prince Philip. Various royal households celebrated Lizâs birthday on social media, including Kensington Palace (aka the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge). Is it just me or is it kind of funny that the photo the Cambridgesâ chose to celebrate the Queen involved Kate wearing an Amish-looking dress and those g-ddamn wedges? The photo is from Kateâs big keen garden reveal last year, although I wouldnât blame you for not remembering – Kate did about twenty events throughout the year for her keen garden.
Hereâs the video published on the Buckingham Palaceâs Twitter:
Thank you for your messages today, on The Queenâs 94th birthday. đđ
đĽ In this private footage from @RCT, we see The Queen, then Princess Elizabeth, with her family, including her younger sister Princess Margaret. pic.twitter.com/T5IUS8MmQj
— The Royal Family (@RoyalFamily) April 21, 2020
Plus some nice photos:
Head of the Commonwealth, Head of the Armed Forces, Head of State in 16 countries and the longest reigning Monarch in British History. Wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother.
Happy birthday, Your Majesty! â¨đ pic.twitter.com/fusEVFsAJT
— The Royal Family (@RoyalFamily) April 21, 2020
Since the Queen is in residence at Windsor Castle, there will be no gun-salutes or anything like that at Buckingham Palace today. Theyâre not even going to do a gun salute at Windsor – apparently, the Queen requested that all of those traditional b-day celebrations be cancelled. And so the first time in her 68-year-reign, sheâs not getting any military salutes. Trooping the Colour will likely still happen in *some* form, but not with any kind of parade or balcony wave. It will probably be a âvirtual Troopingâ or something like that.
Clarence House also published a few nice photos:
Wishing Her Majesty The Queen a very Happy 94th Birthday đ pic.twitter.com/ycTa0i00VY
— Clarence House (@ClarenceHouse) April 21, 2020
Photos courtesy of social media and Avalon Red.
How about, as a substitute, we all salute her with a hand gesture.
Her majesty, of House Petty deserves nothing less. I can think of one or two to get us started.
+1
I’m loving that Kate looks ridiculous in that photo, too.
Kate wore shoes that she absolutely knew the queen would hate, and on the queenâs birthday. A 4â jute espadrille wedge?? For the queenâs birthday??
This made me laugh, hard.
This is the perfect tribute for the face of evil she has become. A cover of grandmotherly-ness for a racist, raping family.
I also celebrated my birthday without any sort of gun salute. This quarantine has been tough on us all.
LOL!
Tell me you didn’t have to fix the tiara all alone!
@Flamingo: Lol, what kind of birthday is that?! Mine’s in 2 weeks so I’ve been stockpiling the guns for my birthday salute since the shops have still been open as an essential service (-;
You’re right! I should have taken the kids out on the back porch and passed out firearms. Never too young to learn how to shoot!
I came here to say that I also celebrated my birthday today without a gun salute, and man, it was ROUGH.
Did you wear a tiara?
I hope you did.
Have a great birthday!
Happy birthday! (-:
So no announcement she will be donating money to help her subjects?
They would never make such an announcement. If they did there would be plenty who would say it was just for PR anyway.
Iâd like to know who told Kate to ALWAYS hold her hands like that. This is her go-to pose and it drives me nuts.
Itâs marginally better than her crotch clutch pose.
May I just say- that dress, those wedges, UGH.
She doesnâ Deserve it anyway
Leave it to Cain and Unable to not pick a photo of just Liz in the birthday announcement.
Read. The. Room.
Happy Birthday, Your Majesty! đđđđ
she probably said “i’m done with this crap and pretense. you courtiers forced me to take a public car ride with that bloody son of mine when all i wanted to do was slap him upside the head. and you have gone and run off my favorite grandchild too! screw the gun salute!”
a girl can only dream.
Sheâs well preserved and in excellent shape to to be 94. I think she uses hearing aids but thatâs about it. Of course, sheâs spent her entire life buffeted by good nutrition, moderate to low life stressors, and access to excellent healthcare.
Her family has had 1000 years of access to excellent healthcare whether it was the village midwives, shamans or the world’s best neurologists. Add to that the fact that for a 1000 years royals always ate while the peasants starved, and you’ve created yourself some resilient, enduring DNA. To me, that’s what luxury should provide, a long and healthy life for yourself and the ones you love. Charles is over 70 and still has both parents. How many of us could say the same?
“Resilient, enduring DNA”. Tell that to the Hapsburgs. đ
(Sorry, I know they are different royal lines, but it is interesting that royalty /= health all the time. )
This hefferâŚ
I’ve got nothing nice to say about her on her birthday.
Heffer…
I have not thrown that one out in a long time.
Thanks for the memories @L84Tea.
This is really mean spirited.
Another queen would likely advise you to go high when they go low..
I would normally agree, but the stink that the queen’s recent behavior this past year created is still far too warm and smelly for me to get past. I used to admire her greatly, but when she fell off my pedestal, she fell very hard. It’s been very disappointing to watch.
“In lockdown with Prince Phillip,” deservedly so. đ
Big deal. Iâve gone my whole life without a gun salute.
I like the queen. I agree that the monarchy is an outdated institution but she is a beloved person for alot of older Brits. I loved the pics of TQ and Meghan together early in the Sussex marriage and I’m sad that it didnt work out for M&H as senior royals.
I wonder if Andrew is with her?!
Why in the h*ll is Cain holding his neck/head like that?!?!? It looks stupid and very painful.
Par for the course, eh?
How much money is she donating to the NHS? Update me when you know.
Happy Birthday to Liz!
And, to everyone that makes it to 90+!!
Cake, we want cake. đ
God, I hate that awful prairie dress that Kate is wearing. It’s just bad. So bad. Why.
Happy Birthday I guess to the Queen, who, like all Tauri, is stubborn but, unlike most Tauri, is stubborn for all the wrong reasons.