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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.
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.
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.
Charles got an enthusiastic response when he introduced her as: “Your majesty, mummy.”
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.
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.
The queen's husband, Prince Philip, was also missing. He is recovering from hip replacement surgery.
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.
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.
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.
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.
(AP)
