Queen's Birthday

From the BBC:
"Queen's 86th birthday marked with gun salutes"

Soldiers have carried out gun salutes across the UK to mark the Queen's 86th birthday. Dozens of cannons fired into the air at the Tower of London, Hyde Park, York's Museum Gardens, Portsmouth Harbour, Edinburgh Castle and Stirling Castle. The Queen spent the day celebrating privately at Windsor Castle, where she often spends weekends. The ceremonies come in the year of June's Diamond Jubilee, which will mark the monarch's 60 years on the throne. Her official birthday is celebrated in that month. Large crowds watched the gunfire, with more than 1,000 observing the 41 gun salute in Hyde Park. Some 80 Irish draft horses were used to pull six World War I-era guns into position.

^ It seems this is the year for Queen Elizabeth 2. I don't think she has been more popular around the world as she is right now. ^

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17800313