QUEEN ELIZABETH II’S DOUBLE CELEBRATIONS; STEPS ON HER 96TH BIRTHDAY,MADE RECORD OF THE LONGEST RULING QUEEN IN UK’S HISTORY : KNOW IN DETAIL

(The Quiver bureau): On Thursday ,UK’s Queen Elizabeth II  stepped in her 96th birthday. Friends and family joined her to celebrate this special day. Gun salutes will ring out today to mark Queen Elizabeth II’s 96th birthday, although the Queen herself was expected to mark the occasion with little fanfare. Rounds will be fired from the Tower of London and Hyde Park in the British capital, where a military band will also play “Happy Birthday”.

On Twitter, The Royal Family account released a photograph to mark her birthday, showing the Queen with two ponies. “Taken last month in the grounds of Windsor Castle, The Queen is pictured with two of her fell ponies,  Bybeck Katie and Bybeck Nightingale,” the account said.

SPECIAL ARRANGEMENTS ON QUEEN’S BIRTHDAY

This year’s official birthday will be celebrated with four days of public events from June 2 to 5 to mark the queen’s record-breaking 70th year on the throne.

British media said the queen has flown by helicopter from her Windsor Castle home, west of London, to her Sandringham country estate in eastern England.

There, she is reported to be spending time at the cottage where her late husband Prince Philip lived after he retired from public life in 2017.

The queen was last seen in public at Westminster Abbey in central London on March 29 at a memorial service for Prince Philip, who died last year aged 99.

This year has been a troubled year for Britain’s royal family, with her growing age her health condition is also getting critical thus concerns are raising over the queen’s health and questions arising who will be taking over the empress chair after her.