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Queen Elizabeth marks 95th birthday, days after husband's funeral

Wed, 21st Apr 2021 00:01

LONDON, April 21 (Reuters) - Britain's Queen Elizabeth, the
world's oldest monarch, turns 95 on Wednesday, but there will be
no public celebrations of an occasion that comes just days
after she bade a sad farewell to her husband of seven decades at
his funeral.

Prince Philip, whom Elizabeth married in 1947, died on April
9 at the age of 99. The royals paid their final respects to the
family's patriarch at his funeral on Saturday at Windsor Castle.

Because of COVID-19 restrictions, the queen sat alone during
the sombre service for Philip, who she had described as her
"strength and stay".

Elizabeth, who is also the world's longest-reigning monarch,
will be at the castle for her birthday, which traditionally
passes off with little or no ceremony.

However this year, with the royals marking two weeks of
mourning, it will pass off with even less public show: there
will be no gun salutes at the Tower of London nor the capital's
Hyde park which usually occur on the queen's birthday.

The queen also has an official birthday, which is usually
celebrated with greater pomp on the second Saturday in June.

Philip's death has robbed Elizabeth of her closest and most
trusted confidante, who had been beside her throughout her
record-breaking 69-year reign.

It also came just as she grappled with one of the gravest
crises to hit the royal family in decades - allegations of
racism and neglect by it from her grandson Prince Harry and
Meghan, his American wife.

Newspapers have suggested that family members would be
visiting the queen over the coming days to ensure she would not
be left alone while mourning her late husband.

A Buckingham Palace spokesman declined to comment, saying
all family matters after the funeral would be private.

Elizabeth, who was born on April 21, 1926, in Bruton Street,
central London, grew up not expecting to become queen. Her
father, George VI, only took the crown when his elder brother
Edward VIII abdicated in 1936 to marry American divorcee Wallis
Simpson.

She ascended to the throne in 1952 at the age of 25, and
surpassed her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria as
Britain's longest reigning monarch in September 2015.

Elizabeth is also queen of 15 former British colonies
including Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

(Reporting by Michael Holden
Editing by Gareth Jones)

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