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Altho Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her actual birthday back in April, the British monarch celebrated her 85th birthday today on her “official” birthday. In celebration, all of England reveled with the Queen for the annual Trooping the Colours national holiday. As you may recall, we saw photos last weekend of Prince William rehearsing for the big day today. Click below to see some photos of the Queen’s big day and read some deets from the celebration.

Welp … Prince William and Kate Middleton, the now the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, are married and today we get our first look at the official photos taken by photographer Hugo Burnand just after the wedding ceremony was completed. The newlyweds posed with members of their wedding party as well as Their Royal Highnesses Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip the Duke of Edinburgh. Check out the serious but playful photos below.

Prince William, groom-to-be and all around hero in the Royal Air Force, was visited by his royal grandmother Queen Elizabeth II and his grandfather Prince Philip the Duke of Edinburgh at the RAF Valley in Anglesey today for a little chat. Altho the strong winds threatened to ruin the day, the Queen soldiered thru the gale force winds to make her appointment. Check out cute photos of grandmother and grandson below.

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Birthday lurve goes out to Queen Elizabeth II this weekend as she celebrated her 84th birthday yesterday at the lavish annual Trooping of the Colour parade in London, England. The Queen was surrounded by her loyal subjects and, more intimately, her Royal family to enjoy the festivities in honor of her 84th … here are a few photos:

The Queen has marked her 84th official birthday at the Trooping the Colour parade in central London. More than 1,400 soldiers took part in the annual display of military pomp and pageantry on London’s Horse Guards Parade. She was joined by the Duke of Edinburgh, the Prince of Wales, her grandson Prince William and other members of the royal family. The 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards were parading their flag colour this year. Many of the battalion’s soldiers returned from Afghanistan two months ago. After the Queen took the salute on Horse Guards, the royal family headed back to Buckingham Palace where they watched a 30-aircraft strong RAF flypast.

Royal salutes had also been simultaneously fired at Edinburgh and Stirling castles. The flypast was led by The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight – one of the events staged to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the battle. A Hurricane and Spitfire were the first aircraft to fly over the members of the Royal Family as they gathered on the Buckingham Palace balcony. They were followed by Typhoons, Tornadoes, a Nimrod R1 and the Red Arrows – the RAF’s aerobatic display team … The parade was commanded by Commanding Officer Lt Col Roly Walker while the Colour was escorted by a guard from Queen’s Company. Second Lt James Brown was the Ensign tasked with carrying the Colour. Soldiers wearing the uniforms of the Household Cavalry, Royal Horse Artillery and the Foot Guards were joined by more than 200 horses at the event. Four hundred musicians from 10 bands and corps of drums also took part, with drum horse Spartacus, of The Blues and Royals, appearing for the 12th time. The Queen’s actual birthday was on 21 April. The tradition of two birthdays dates back to the time when, if monarchs were born in winter, the weather was deemed unsuitable for outdoor events. Traditionally before battle, colours – or flags – were carried, or “trooped”, along the rank of soldiers so they could be seen and recognised. In 1748, it was decided the trooping would also be used to honour the sovereign’s birthday. The Queen first took the royal salute in 1951 when she deputised for her father King George VI when he was sick. She has attended every ceremony bar one in 1955 when there was a national rail strike.

We yanks on this side of the pond don’t usually get to see this sort of pomp and circumstance on such a huge scale so I, for one, look forward to the annual event that celebrates the Queen’s birthday. I’m always amazed at how youthful and lively she looks year after year … I’m of the mind that Queen Elizabeth will rule the United Kingdom for a very long time to come. Here’s to many Happy Birthdays and many happy returns!

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Her Royal Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, celebrated her official birthday in the UK yesterday and, as is custom, partook of the pageantry known as Trooping the Colour with her Royal family … including her husband Prince Philip and her grandsons Princes William and Harry. Here are a few pics from yesterday’s festivities and some deets of what went down:

Pomp and pageantry was on full show Saturday as Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her official birthday with the traditional Trooping the Colour parade in London. Wearing a blue coat and matching hat, Queen Elizabeth, 83, took the salute during the military spectacle, as senior royals and thousands of well-wishers looked on. Later, the royal family watched from the balcony of Buckingham Palace as 29 aircraft, from vintage planes to modern fighters, took part in the traditional flypast, with the Red Arrows air acrobatics jets trailing red, white and blue smoke. Queen Elizabeth and her husband Prince Philip travelled to the Horse Guards parade ground in Queen Victoria’s 1842 ivory-mounted phaeton carriage. Her eldest children, Prince Charles and Princess Anne, followed on horseback. Charles’s wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, plus his sons Princes William and Harry — who both wore military uniform — watched from a building that was once military hero the Duke of Wellington’s office. The queen has taken the salute every year bar one since her accession to the throne in 1952. The Colour being paraded on Horse Guards this year was the flag of the 1st Battalion Irish Guards. The pomp and ceremony of Trooping the Colour — a hangover from preparations for battle when colours or flags were “trooped” down the rank so soldiers could recognise them — marks the queen’s official birthday. Her actual birthday is on April 21 but historically the monarch has another in the summer months, because the weather is supposed to be better for open-air celebrations.

Birthday lurve goes out to Her Majesty this weekend as she officially celebrates her 83rd. It’s so good to see her lookin’ so spry and lively. Queen Elizabeth II looks like she’s got the fortitude to reign for a very long time to come. As an American, I find it very neat and interesting to see the regalness of Royal celebrations like this. We, too, have our pomp and circumstance here in the US but there seems to be something special about Royal ceremonies. So nice to see the Royals all celebrating together.

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