By Sean Coughlan Royal reporter Image source, Royal Windsor Horse Show Image caption, A photo for the Queen’s birthday shows her long-lasting interest in horses The Queen will commemorate her 96 th birthday on Thursday in Sandringham. Britain’s longest-lived queen taken a trip by helicopter to her Norfolk estate, where she will be signed up with by friends and family. She is anticipated to remain in a home on the estate especially liked by her late hubby, Prince Philip. A photo has actually been launched to mark the birthday, revealing the Queen with 2 ponies and showing her long-lasting interest in horses. The image was taken at Windsor Castle, where the Queen now mainly remains, and reveals her with 2 Fell ponies, who will appear in the upcoming Royal Windsor Horse Show. Birthday wants Prince Harry recommended in a United States television interview that the Queen may be minimizing this newest turning point, stating that “after a particular age you get tired of birthdays”. She will be investing time at Wood Farm, a home explained as “little and intimate” by previous house cleaner Teresa Thompson, and a location with strong associations with Prince Philip, who passed away a little over a year back. The Queen remained in Sandringham previously this year when she marked her accession to the throne in1952 She was born in 1926, not in a royal home, however in a London townhouse on Bruton Street, where she initially dealt with her dad and mom, who ended up being King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Birthday desires have actually been sent out by Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and weapon salutes will be fired. Image source, Universal History Archive/ Getty Images Image caption, The home on Bruton Street where the Queen was born was destroyed in the 1930 s The Queen has actually had movement issues in current months and has actually needed to miss out on a variety of occasions, consisting of church services over Easter. Her only public look this year, beyond her own homes or on video, was at the Thanksgiving Service for Prince Philip at Westminster Abbey. The Queen’s 96 th birthday marks another extraordinary age for a British emperor, in a year in which she has actually ended up being the very first emperor to commemorate a Platinum Jubilee of 70 years on the throne. The next longest-lived emperors were Queen Victoria and George III, who lived to the age of 81, and were the only other queens to have actually lived into their 80 s. According to figures from the Office for National Statistics, the Queen is among about 124,000 individuals in the 95 to 99 age in the UK, nearly 3 quarters of these being females. A Barbie doll commemorating the tradition of the Queen is being launched to honor her Platinum Jubilee, including an entertainment of her wedding event tiara and an ivory dress fitted with a blue ribbon.
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