UK - Queen Elizabeth II Birthday

With the recent Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate just over, I am delighted to receive this wonderful postcard issued on April 21st 2006 to commemorate Her Majesty's 80th birthday. This postcard was specially cancelled on April 21, 2011 to mark Her Majesty's 85th birthday. Thanks to Jean Pierre of France for this significant postcard and for using Queen Elizabeth's stamps and for using the Royal Mail Postcard Plastic Wrap to protect both sides of the postcard.

"Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, born 21 April 1926 is the constitutional monarch of sixteen independent sovereign states known as the Commonwealth realms: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and Nevis."




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