The Queen has two birthdays - her real one - on 21 April, as she was born on 21 April and turned 95 this year. Then a second one - the official celebration - on the second Saturday of June. So why does the Queen have two birthdays, and how does she celebrate them? In the past, official celebrations to mark a King or Queen's birthday in the UK have been held on a day that isn't their actual birthday. But he wanted it to be possible to have a big public celebration - and November wasn't the time do it.
So, given that his actual birthday wouldn't be a good time of year for a birthday parade, he decided to combine it with an annual military parade in the summer, when the weather would hopefully be nice.
The Queen usually spends her actual birthday with her family. There is usually a gun salute in Hyde Park, a gun salute in Windsor Great Park and a gun salute at the Tower of London on 21 April but they were cancelled this year because of the coronavirus pandemic.
The Queen and the Royal Family were still in mourning following the death of Prince Philip , aged 99, so celebrations were private. The Trooping the Colour parade marks her official birthday and usually takes place in June, but that has also been cancelled this year.
Following consultation with Government and other relevant parties it has been agreed that The Queen's Official Birthday Parade, also known as Trooping the Colour, will not go ahead this year in its traditional form in central London.
Options for an alternative Parade, in the quadrangle at Windsor Castle, are being considered. Trooping the Colour has marked the official birthday of the British monarch for more than years. It's also known as The Queen's Birthday Parade. More than soldiers, horses and musicians usually take part in the event, so it's quite a spectacle!
Lots of members of the public waving flags and wearing Union Jacks normally fill the Mall outside Buckingham Palace to watch it. On the day, normally a big parade starts at the Queen's official residence - Buckingham Palace - before moving along the Mall to Horse Guards Parade at Whitehall, near to Downing Street, and then back again. Then it's traditional for the royal family to travel down the Mall as part of the ceremony, and gather on Buckingham Palace's balcony to greet well-wishers and watch RAF planes perform an aerial display for the occasion.
In however, the celebration will look similar to last year's scaled down Trooping the Colour with the notable difference that, after Prince Philip's death , the Queen will be accompanied by her cousin, the Duke of Kent. This year, the parade will also be "formed by soldiers who have played an integral role in the NHS COVID response, as well as those who have been serving on military operations overseas. Trooping the Colour: What is it and why do the Royal Family attend?
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The Queen used to mark her official birthday on the second Thursday of June, the same day her father, King George VI, used to celebrate his birthday during his reign.
Members of the royal family ride either on horseback or in carriages as part of the proceedings. The parade ends with a fly-past by the RAF , which the Queen watches with the royal family from the Buckingham Palace balcony. The UK marks the Queen's official birthday on the second Saturday of June with the celebration known as Trooping the Colour, but the day is not a public holiday.
Commonwealth law states the Queen's Birthday is a public holiday in Australia; however, the date on which it is celebrated is chosen by each state and territory government. Prior to , WA celebrated the reigning sovereign's birthday on their actual birth date in line with the other state and territory governments.
Then-premier John Willcock said June 13 also fell a week after the state's Foundation Day public holiday, leaving people without a break until Christmas. The Queen's Birthday also replaced the state's People's Day, a mid-week public holiday that acknowledged the significance of the Perth Royal Show. The change was made to honour the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh's visit to WA and to celebrate the th anniversary of the Royal Agricultural Society.
Non-metropolitan local governments in WA can apply to the Governor for an alternative day to hold the Queen's Birthday public holiday that lines up with an important local date or event. The Labor Bligh government changed the Queen's Birthday in from the traditional June date to the first weekend of October to better spread out the public holidays in the second half of the year.
Labour Day commemorates the achievements of the labour movement in Australia and had been celebrated in Queensland in May since Prince Charles was born on November 14, so it's likely he will keep with the tradition of holding his official King's Birthday during Britain's summer in June. In after becoming king, George VI did not have an official birthday because the public holiday was wrapped into his Coronation Day on May Queen Elizabeth II also had a joint Coronation and Queen's Birthday on June 2, , two weeks earlier than it would have normally been held.
So depending on what time of year Charles has his coronation, Australians might have the public holiday moved to a different time of year.
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