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Kate Middleton and Prince William on Tuesday took to Twitter to offer Queen Elizabeth their best wishes on her birthday.
“Wishing Her Majesty the Queen a happy 94th birthday today!” Read the couple’s tweet posted on their Kensington Palace account.
The Queen turned 94 on Tuesday, but blocking the coronavirus meant there was little fanfare to mark the occasion.
Elizabeth, the oldest and reigning monarch in the world, usually spends her birthday in private without much public celebration, but this year the event will be even quieter.
Royal birthdays and anniversaries are traditionally marked by ceremonial salutes with firearms, in which blank rounds are fired from various locations throughout London, but the queen felt it would be inappropriate to allow this to happen under the circumstances.
The latest official figures show that around 16,000 Britons infected with the new coronavirus have died in hospital, the fifth highest number worldwide. The country is in its fourth week of confinement, with most companies closed and ordained citizens staying home.
Typically, flags are waved in government buildings to mark the queen’s birthday, but officials have been told that this year they would not all be expected to arrange for that to happen.
The only official recognition from the royal family came via Twitter, where Buckingham Palace posted a private family movie of Elizabeth as a child, playing with her late younger sister Margaret.
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