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ROYAL FACTS Without
any doubt HRH Queen Elizabeth II is one of the most
popular British monarchs and deservedly so. Queen
Elizabeth II has steadfastly gone about her business
since before her coronation day in June of 1953.
The public adore her so, they would not like to see her
go. She is a pillar or society and a rock in terms
of keeping her family pointed in the right direction. Perhaps
more importantly, the Queen plays an important role as
the head of state and as an ambassador for the United
Kingdom and colonies. Who wouldn't want such
representation and balanced opinion in their public
relations. But the Queen is ore than that, she is
the genuine article. A good wife, mother and a
stupendous grandmother to boot. 
The
Queen at 80- looking good your Majesty
HERE
are 80 facts about the Queen released by Buckingham
Palace to mark her 80th birthday.
1.
Queen Elizabeth II is the fortieth monarch since William
the Conqueror obtained the crown of England.
2.
In 2002 at 76 years of age the Queen was the oldest
monarch to celebrate a Golden Jubilee. The youngest was
James I (James VI of Scotland) at 51 years.
3.
Since 1952 the Queen has conferred over 387,700 honours
and awards.
4.
The Queen has personally held over 540 Investitures.
5.
The Queen speaks fluent French and often uses the
language for audiences and state visits.
6.
The Queen has received over 3 million items of
correspondence during her reign.
7.
Over the course of her reign, around 1.1 million people
have attended garden parties at Buckingham Palace or the
Palace of Holyroodhouse (the Queen ended presentation
parties in 1958).
8.
Over the reign, the Queen has given regular Tuesday
evening audiences to 10 British Prime Ministers. They
are: Winston Churchill 1951-55, Sir Anthony Eden
1955-57, Harold Macmillan 1957-63, Sir Alec Douglas-Home
1963-64, Harold Wilson 1964-70 and 1974-76, Edward Heath
1970-74, James Callaghan 1976-79, Margaret Thatcher
1979-90, John Major 1990-97, Tony Blair 1997-present.
There
have also been 10 US Presidents during the Queen's
reign.
9.
Tony Blair is the first Prime Minister to have been born
during the Queen's reign. He was born in early May 1953
- a month before the Coronation.
10.
The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh introduced small,
informal luncheon parties at Buckingham Palace to meet
distinguished people from all professions, trades and
vocations. The first lunch was held on May 11 1956 and
the tradition continues to this day. There are usually
6-8 guests and two members of the household attending.
11.
The Queen is patron of more than 620 charities and
organisations.
12.
During her reign, the Queen has undertaken over 256
official overseas visits to 129 different countries.
13.
Many of the Queen's official tours were undertaken on
the Royal Yacht Britannia. It was launched by the Queen
on 16 April 1953 and was commissioned for service on 7
January 1954. It was de-commissioned in December 1997.
During this time, Britannia travelled more than a
million miles on Royal and official duties.
14.
The Royal Yacht Britannia was first used by the Queen
when she embarked with the Duke of Edinburgh on May 1
1954 at Tobruk for the final stage of their Commonwealth
Tour returning to the Pool of London. The last time the
Queen was on board Britannia for an official visit was
on August 9 1997 for a visit to Arran.
15.
The Queen has visited Australia 15 times, Canada 23
times, Jamaica six times and New Zealand 10 times. The
Queen most recently visited Australia in March 2006 to
open the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne.
16.
Since her accession to the throne in 1952, the Queen has
visited Edinburgh nearly every year, taking up residence
in the Palace of Holyroodhouse during Holyrood Week.
17.
During her reign, the Queen has received many unusual
gifts including live animals. The more unusual animals
have been placed in the care of the London zoo, among
them jaguars and sloths from Brazil, and two black
beavers from Canada. The Queen has also received gifts
of pineapples, eggs, a box of snail shells, a grove of
maple trees and 7kg of prawns.
18.
The Queen has sent around 100,000 telegrams to
centenarians in the UK and the Commonwealth.
19.
The Queen has sent more than 280,000 telegrams to
couples in the UK and the Commonwealth celebrating their
diamond wedding anniversaries.
20.
The Queen's real birthday is on April 21, but it is
celebrated officially in June.
21.
The Queen has attended 34 Royal Variety performances.
22.
The Queen has opened 15 bridges in the United Kingdom.
23.
The Queen has given over 91 State banquets during her
reign.
24.
Since 1952 the Queen has undertaken 78 State Visits
accompanied by The Duke of Edinburgh with the most
recent being to Singapore in March 2006.
25.
The Queen has launched 23 ships in her lifetime. The
first was HMS Vanguard which she launched, as Princess
Elizabeth, on November 30 1944 in Clydebank. The first
ship which she launched as Queen was the Queen's Yacht
Britannia, which was also launched from Clydebank.
26.
The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh have sent about
37,500 Christmas cards during the Queen's reign.
27.
The Queen has given out about 78,000 Christmas puddings
to staff continuing the custom of King George V and King
George VI. In addition, the Queen gives all her staff a
gift at Christmas time.
28.
Every year the Queen sends Christmas trees to
Westminster Abbey, Wellington Barracks, St Paul's
Cathedral, St Giles, Edinburgh, The Canongate Kirk,
Edinburgh, Crathie Church and local schools and churches
in the Sandringham area.
29.
The Queen learnt to drive in 1945 when she joined the
Army.
30.
The Queen was a Girl Guide (1937) and Sea Ranger (1943).
31.
Princess Elizabeth travelled on the London Underground
for the first time in May 1939 with her governess Marion
Crawford and Princess Margaret.
32.
The Queen is a keen photographer and enjoys taking
photographs of her family. The Duke of York is also a
keen photographer and has taken a number of photographs
of the Queen, including an official photograph for the
Queen's Golden Jubilee in 2002.
33.
The Queen was born at 17 Bruton St, London W1 on 21
April 1926, was christened on 29 May 1926 in the private
chapel at Buckingham Palace. She was confirmed on 28
March 1942 in the private chapel at Windsor Castle.
34.
With the birth of Prince Andrew in 1960, the Queen
became the first reigning sovereign to have a child
since Queen Victoria, who had her youngest child,
Princess Beatrice, in 1857.
35.
The Queen has 30 godchildren.
36.
The first football match the Queen attended was the 1953
FA Cup Final.
37.
The Queen has taken the salute in every Trooping the
Colour ceremony since the start of her reign, with the
exception of 1955, when a national rail strike forced
the cancellation of the parade.
38.
The Queen has sat for 139 official portraits during her
lifetime, two of which were with The Duke of Edinburgh.
The most recent sitting was for Rolf Harris (2005). The
Queen was just seven years old when she sat for her
first portrait in 1933, which was commissioned by her
mother and painted by the Hungarian artist Philip
Alexius de Laszls.
39.
The Queen sat for the first and only hologram portrait
in 2003.
40.
There have been 11 sculptures of the Queen. The most
recent was in 2005 by Miss Angela Conner for St George's
Chapel, Windsor.
41.
The first 'Royal walkabout' took place during the visit
by the Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh to Australia and
New Zealand in 1970. The practice was introduced to
allow them to meet a greater number of people, not
simply officials and dignitaries.
42.
In 1969 the first television film about the family life
of the Royal Family was made, and shown on the eve of
the Investiture of Prince Charles as Prince of Wales.
43.
An important innovation during the Queen's reign was the
opening in 1962 of a new gallery at Buckingham Palace to
display items from the Royal Collection. The brainchild
of The Duke of Edinburgh, the new Queen's Gallery
occupied the space of the Palace's bomb-damaged private
chapel. It was the first time that parts of the Palace
had been opened to the general public.
44.
The only time the Queen has had to interrupt an overseas
tour was in 1974 during a tour of Australia and
Indonesia. the Queen was called back from Australia when
a general election was called suddenly. The Duke of
Edinburgh continued the programme in Australia, and the
Queen re-joined the tour in Indonesia.
HRH
Queen Elizabeth II during OBE ceremony 2004
45.
The Queen has opened Parliament every year except 1959
and 1963, when she was expecting Prince Andrew and
Prince Edward respectively.
46.
The Queen went on her first state visit as Princess
Elizabeth, to South Africa with her mother and father,
then King and Queen, from February to May 1947. The tour
included Rhodesia and Bechuanaland, Swaziland and
Basutoland (now Lesotho). The Princess celebrated her
21st birthday in Cape Town. The Queen's first State
Visit as Queen was technically to Kenya, as King George
VI died and the Queen acceded the throne during the
tour. The tour had to be abandoned.
47.
The Queen's first Commonwealth tour began on 24 November
1953, and included visits to Bermuda, Jamaica, Panama,
Fiji, Tonga, New Zealand, Australia, the Cocos Islands,
Ceylon, Aden, Uganda, Libya, Malta and Gibraltar. The
total distance covered was 43,618 miles.
48.
The Queen was the first British Monarch to go to China
when she visited in 1986.
49.
The Queen has made a Christmas Broadcast to the
Commonwealth every year of her reign except 1969, when a
repeat of the film 'Royal Family' was shown and a
written message from the Queen issued.
50.
In 1953, the Queen made the first Christmas Broadcast
from overseas, (rather than from the UK), broadcasting
live from New Zealand. The first televised broadcast was
in 1957, made live. The first pre-recorded broadcast
took place in 1960 to allow transmission around the
world.
51.
The Queen sent a message of congratulations to Apollo 11
astronauts for the first moon landing on July 21 1969.
The message was micro-filmed and deposited on the moon
in a metal container.
52.
The Queen has met the following astronauts at Buckingham
Palace:
The
first astronaut to go into space - Russian - Major Yuri
Gagarin.
The
first woman in space - Russian - Mrs Valentina
Tereschkova.
The
first man on the moon - American - Neil Armstrong - and
the other American astronauts, Michael Collins and Edwin
Aldrin.
53.
The Queen sent her first email in 1976 from an Army
base.
54.
There have been six Archbishops of Canterbury during the
Queen's reign (Archbishops Geoffrey Fisher, Michael
Ramsey, Donald Coggan, Robert Runcie, George Carey and
Rowan Williams).
55.
History was made in 1982 when Pope John Paul II visited
Britain, the first Pope to do so for 450 years. the
Queen, titular head of the Church of England, received
him at Buckingham Palace.
56.
The Queen first visited a mosque in the UK for the first
time in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire in July 2002.
57.
The Queen has attended 50 Royal Maundy services during
her reign at more than 39 different cathedrals. The
Queen has only missed four services - two for official
tours and two for the births of Prince Andrew and Prince
Edward.
58.
The Queen has owned more than 30 corgis during her
reign, starting with Susan who was a present for her
18th birthday in 1944. A good proportion of these have
been direct descendants from Susan. the Queen currently
has five corgis, Emma, Linnet, Monty, Holly and Willow.
59.
The Queen also introduced a new breed of dog known as
the "dorgi" when one of the Queen's corgis was
mated with a dachshund named Pipkin which belonged to
Princess Margaret. The Queen currently has four dorgis,
Cider, Berry, Candy and Vulcan.
60.
As well as corgis and dorgis, the Queen also breeds and
trains labradors and cocker spaniels at Sandringham.
There is a special Sandringham strain of black labrador
founded in 1911.
61.
The Queen takes a keen interest in horses and racing.
The Queen's first pony was given to her by her
grandfather, King George V, when she was four years old.
This was a Shetland pony called Peggy. The Queen
continues to ride at Sandringham, Balmoral and Windsor.
62.
The Queen also takes a keen interest in horse breeding.
Horses bred at the Royal studs over the last 200 years
have won virtually every major race in Britain. The
Queen has about 25 horses in training each season.
63.
The Queen's racing colours are: purple body with gold
braid, scarlet sleeves and Black velvet cap with gold
fringe.
64.
The Queen continues the Royal Family's long association
with racing pigeons which began in 1886 when King
Leopold II of Belgium made a gift of racing pigeons to
the Royal Family. In 1990, one of the Queen's birds took
part in the Pau race, coming first in the Section 5th
Open and was subsequently named "Sandringham
Lightning". In recognition of her interest in the
sport, the Queen is patron of a number of racing
societies, including the Royal Pigeon Racing
Association.
65.
The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh were married on 20
November 20 1947 in Westminster Abbey. The Queen's
wedding dress was designed by Sir Norman Hartnell and
was woven at Winterthur Silks Limited, Dunfermline, in
the Canmore factory, using silk that had come from
Chinese silkworms at Lullingstone Castle.
66.
The Queen's dressmakers over the years have included Sir
Hardy Amies, Sir Norman Hartnell, Karl-Ludwig Couture
and Maureen Rose. The Queen's milliners have been
Frederick Fox, Philip Somerville and Marie O'Regan.
67.
The Queen's wedding ring was made from a nugget of Welsh
gold which came from the Clogau St David's mine near
Dolgellau. The official wedding cake was made by McVitie
and Price Ltd, using ingredients given as a wedding gift
by Australian Girl Guides.
68.
The Queen has an extensive collection of jewellery, most
of which are Crown Jewels, some inherited and some
gifts, including the largest pink diamond in the world.
Some well known pieces include; a brooch of diamonds
forming a spray of wattle presented by the Australian
government in 1954; and a necklace of large square cut
aquamarines and diamonds with earrings as a gift in
coronation year by the ambassador of Brazil, which the
Queen wore on the French state visit in 2004.
69.
The Queen has laid her wreath at the Cenotaph on
Remembrance Sunday every year of her reign, except in
1959, 1961, 1963, 1968, 1983 and 1999 when she was
either pregnant or overseas on an official visit.
70.
The Queen has visited the sets of a number of British
soap operas including Coronation Street, East Enders and
Emmerdale.
71.
In 1997, the Queen launched Buckingham Palace's first
official website.
72.
In 1998, the Queen introduced "theme days" to
promote and celebrate aspects of British culture. The
first theme day was "City Day" focusing on
financial institutions. Other themes have included
Publishing, Broadcasting, Tourism, Emergency Services,
Maritime Day, Music, Young Achievers, British Design,
and Pioneers.
73.
In June, 2002, the Queen hosted the first public
concerts in the garden of Buckingham Palace to celebrate
her Golden Jubilee. the Queen attended both the
classical and pop concerts. The 'Party at the Palace'
pop concert was one of the most watched pop concerts in
history, attracting around 200 million viewers over the
world.
74.
The Queen is the first member of the Royal Family to be
awarded a gold disc from the recording industry. 100,000
copies of the CD of the 'Party at the Palace', produced
by EMI, were sold within the first week of release.
75.
The Queen hosted the first women's only event
"Women of Achievement" at Buckingham Palace in
March, 2004.
76.
In November 2004, the Queen invited the cast of Les
Miserables in the West End to perform for French
President Jacques Chirac at Windsor Castle. It was the
first time the cast of a West End musical had performed
at a Royal residence.
77.
As a young girl, the Queen acted in a number of
Pantomimes during World War Two including playing the
part of Prince Florizel in Cinderella in 1941. These
pantomimes took place every year in the Waterloo Chamber
at Windsor Castle.
78.
In 2005 the Queen claimed ownership of 88 cygnets on the
Thames. They are looked after by the Swan Marker. The
first Royal Swan Keeper was appointed around the 12th
Century.
79.
Technically the Queen still owns the sturgeons, whales
and dolphins in the waters around the UK. A statute from
1324, at the time of the reign of King Edward II, states
that: "Also the King shall have ... whales and
sturgeons taken in the sea or elsewhere within the
realm." This statute is still valid today, and
sturgeons, porpoises, whales and dolphins are recognised
as 'Fishes Royal'. When captured within three miles of
UK shores, or washed ashore either dead or alive, they
may be claimed on behalf of the Crown. Generally, when
brought into port, a sturgeon is sold in the usual way,
and the purchaser, as a gesture of loyalty, requests the
honour of its being accepted by the Queen.
80.
In summer 2005, the Queen opened the first
"children's trail" in the Buckingham Palace
garden for the summer opening.
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