Why Does Queen Elizabeth Have Two Birthdays?

As if literally being the Queen of England weren’t enough, the head of the royal family is also afforded this childhood fantasy: She has two birthdays. Every single year. On April 21, the actual day of her birth, the Queen celebrates privately (we like to imagine she eats custard tart for breakfast in bed, surrounded by corgis), but on a Saturday in June, she marks her “official” birthday publicly, in true British royal fashion, with a carriage and horse procession known as Trooping the Colour. The rest of the royal family joins her up on the Buckingham Palace balcony to… Read Full Article