The 21 guns are firing in the Saskatchewan Legislature precints - the windows Chez Pipers are rattling!
Happy 85th Birthday, Your Majesty!
Might want to correct that typo in the second sentence.
ETA: And Happy Birthday Liz!
Shouldn’t that read, “Happy 85th Birthday, Your Majesty, and thanks for the day off!”?
Damn, she’s really not ageing well.
Her mother lived to be 105 and smoked and drank.
Almost. The Queen Mother was 101 when she died.
If we’re picking nits here, her birthday was April 21.
That’s her personal birthday. Her royal, official birthday, designated to give her loyal subjects a day off, as Gorsnak mentioned, is the third Monday in May. Across Canada, it’s also the unofficial day for opening the cottage and planting gardens.
Or just having a 2-4 in honour of the 24th!
If you want to nitpick the picked nits:
Wasn’t yesterday the fourth Monday in May?
We have to wait until the second Monday in June for our celebratory day off.
Quite right - my oops.
On googling, I see that Victoria Day is defined as the last Monday before the 24th of May.
Wait a minute, Canadians and Aussies get a day off HM’s birthday and we don’t in Britain?
As if her birthday weren’t reason enough to celebrate . . . she has recently surpassed the reign of George III, to become the second-longest reigning British monarch. Victoria still has her beat by a few years.