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    ENJOY YOUR JUBILEE CELEBRATIONS - HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN

    2 June 2022 (by admin)

    We hope you thoroughly embrace your weekend of family and community celebrations. A significant weekend for Her Majesty the Queen.

    1. Queen Elizabeth II was born at 2.40am on 21 April 1926 to parents the Duke and Duchess of York, who later became King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (the Queen Mother). WOW!

    2. She was crowned Queen on 2 June 1953 watched by a TV audience of 20 million people. WOW!

    3. She is the longest reigning monarch ever in Britain beating even Queen Victoria (her great-great-grandma!). WOW!

    4. As Queen, she has been served by 14 UK Prime Ministers including Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher and more recently, Boris Johnson. WOW!

    5. Her favourite dogs are corgis - she even invented a new breed of dog when her corgi mated with a dachshund belonging to her sister, Princess Margaret, creating the “dorgi”. WOW!

    More MAJESTY facts to follow soon...enjoy your loooooonnng weekend St. Bernard's