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Happy birthday, Your Majesty!

Queen Elizabeth II celebrates two birthdays each year: her actual birthday on 21 April and her official birthday on the second Saturday in June.

The Queen usually spends her actual birthday privately, but the occasion is marked publicly by gun salutes in central London at midday: a 41 gun salute in Hyde Park, a 21 gun salute in Windsor Great Park and a 62 gun salute at the Tower of London.