The Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her 92nd birthday with a special treat – thousands of audiences at the Royal Albert Hall sang "Happy Birthday" to her on Saturday.
Audience members take their seats at the Royal Albert Hall
in London on Saturday April 21, 2018, for a concert to celebrate the 92nd birthday of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II. /Andrew Parsons/Pool via AP
Audience members take their seats at the Royal Albert Hall
in London on Saturday April 21, 2018, for a concert to celebrate the 92nd birthday of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II. /Andrew Parsons/Pool via AP
The queen, with her eldest son Prince Charles at her side,
waved to the crowd as they celebrated the longest reigning monarch in British history.
Charles got an enthusiastic response when he introduced her as: “Your majesty, mummy.”
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, surrounded by members of the
royal family, takes her seat at the Royal Albert Hall in London on
Saturday April 21, 2018. /Andrew Parsons/Pool via AP
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, surrounded by members of the
royal family, takes her seat at the Royal Albert Hall in London on
Saturday April 21, 2018. /Andrew Parsons/Pool via AP
She was flanked in the royal box by Prince Charles, who will succeed the Queen as head of the Commonwealth, and Prince William – his wife did not attend as she is expecting the couple's third child. Prince Harry and fiancee Meghan Markle, who will wed on May 19, also attended, generating a roar of applause when they took their seats.
The queen's husband, Prince Philip, was also missing. He is recovering from hip replacement surgery.
Tom Jones performs at the Royal Albert Hall in London on
Saturday April 21, 2018, for a concert to celebrate the 92nd birthday
of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II. /John Stillwell/Pool via AP
Tom Jones performs at the Royal Albert Hall in London on
Saturday April 21, 2018, for a concert to celebrate the 92nd birthday
of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II. /John Stillwell/Pool via AP
The queen took center stage after a varied pop concert featuring
British singers Sting, Tom Jones and Jamie Cullum along with Australian
star Kylie Minogue, long a fan favorite in the country.
Shaggy and Craig David also performed, and the festivities took a
long stroll down memory lane with audio from a speech Elizabeth made on
her 21st birthday and video from her Golden Jubilee, when roughly one million people gathered outside Buckingham Palace to honor her.
The show featured contemporary tunes, but included songs from earlier
eras, including selections from “My Fair Lady” – one of the queen’s
favorites – and a sentimental rendering of “Wonderful World.”
In this Ministry of Defence photo dated April 21, 2018,
army reservists from C Troop 211 Battery fire a 21-gun salute inside the grounds of
Cardiff Castle, Wales, to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s 92nd birthday. /Corporal Tom Evans (RLC)/Minstry of Defence via AP
In this Ministry of Defence photo dated April 21, 2018,
army reservists from C Troop 211 Battery fire a 21-gun salute inside the grounds of
Cardiff Castle, Wales, to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s 92nd birthday. /Corporal Tom Evans (RLC)/Minstry of Defence via AP
Earlier in the day, honorary gun salutes were fired at Hyde Park,
the Tower of London, a castle in Wales and the town of Windsor to mark
the occasion.
The queen celebrates two birthdays every year. First, her actual birthday on
April 21, which she usually marks privately with her family, and second her
“official birthday” in the summer. That usually falls on the second
Saturday in June when she joins the Trooping the Color military parade
in central London.
Elizabeth’s real birthday this year came on the tails of the
Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting, which brought the leaders of
the 53 Commonwealth countries together in England.
The queen has led the disparate group, made up of Britain and its former colonies, since she took the throne in 1952.
(With input from AP)
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