The queen owns all the dolphins and whales in British waters, has survived an assassination attempt and is known as “Mama belong big family” in Papua New Guinea.
Here are 70 facts about Queen Elizabeth II: one for each of her 70 years on the throne.
Image: The Queen at Westminster Abbey in November 2021
1. The Queen has two birthdays, one in April and one in June, as sovereign birthdays are celebrated twice if hers does not fall in the summer.
2. He has nine royal thrones: six in Buckingham Palace, two in Westminster Abbey and one in the House of Lords.
3. Her Majesty speaks fluent French, learned from her French and Belgian governesses.
4. He sent his first e-mail in 1976 from an army base.
5. The Sunday Times Rich List 2022 put its net worth at £ 370 million, an increase of £ 5 million over 2021.
6. He dedicated an acre of land in Runnymede, Surrey, to US President John F Kennedy after his assassination in 1965.
7. In October 2021, the Queen turned down Oldie Magazine’s Oldie of the Year Award, and her assistant private secretary told host Gyles Brandreth, “Her Majesty thinks you’re the age you feel. “.
8. In Papua New Guinea, where she is the constitutional monarch, she is known in the pidgin language of Tok Pisin as “Miss Kwin,” and “Mama belong big family.”
Image: The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh in Papua New Guinea in October
9. The queen also holds the titles of Lord of Man in the Isle of Man, Duke of Normandy in the Channel Islands and Duke of Lancaster in the land of the Duchy of Lancaster.
10. It owns all dolphins and whales in British waters. This goes back to a statute of 1324, which is still in force today and means that the creatures have the title of “royal fish”.
11. In 1981, a 17-year-old man was shot with a pistol shot as he passed a crowd on horseback near Buckingham Palace. He was sentenced to five years in prison, serving three years.
12. Months later, in Dunedin, New Zealand, another 17-year-old aimed a rifle at the queen from a fifth-floor building overlooking a parade, but lost it. He was sentenced to three years in prison.
13. Among the unusual gifts he has received over the years are jaguars and meek from Brazil and two black beavers from Canada. They also gave him pineapples, eggs and prawns.
14. Animals given to the queen are often cared for at the London Zoo.
15. She sent her first tweet in 2014 announcing the opening of a new exhibition at the Science Museum in London, signed by Elizabeth R.
16. Tony Blair was the first prime minister to be born during the reign of the queen. He was born in 1953.
Image: Prime Minister Tony Blair and Queen at Buckingham Palace in July 2004
17. The Queen successfully sued The Sun in 1993 after they published their Christmas message two days before it was broadcast. The newspaper apologized on the cover and paid £ 200,000 in damages, which were donated to Save the Children.
18. She has a pillow in her private Balmoral living room embroidered with the words “It’s good to be queen.”
19. State banquets don’t like to serve raw food or messy dishes like spaghetti that risk embarrassing the eater.
20. The Queen first paid income tax in 1993 after a series of financial reforms of royal property under the rule of John Major.
21. The first football match he attended was the 1953 FA Cup final, in which a Stanley Matthews-inspired Blackpool beat the Bolton Wanderers 4-3.
Image: The Queen in the FA Cup final between Bolton Wanderers and Blackpool FC in 1953
22. He sent a message of congratulations to the astronauts of Apollo 11 for the first landing on the moon on July 21, 1969. The message was microfilmed and deposited on the moon in a metal container.
23. The reason she usually wears a one-color dress and a decorative hat is to make sure she can be seen in a crowd.
24. Earlier this year, the Queen had attended all the inaugurations of the Parliament, except those of 1959 and 1963, when she was pregnant with Prince Andrew and Prince Edward.
25. The oldest person to whom he wrote a letter was a 116-year-old Canadian man in 1984.
26. She became the longest-serving monarch in Britain on September 9, 2015, breaking the record previously set by her great-grandmother, Queen Victoria.
27. The Queen was the first British monarch to visit China in 1986.
Image: Queen and Duke of Edinburgh visit the Great Wall of China near Beijing in October 1986
28. He also paid a historic visit to the Republic of Ireland in May 2011, the first visit by a British monarch since the independence of Ireland.
29. In his 2014 Christmas message he referred to his visit to the Belfast-set Game of Thrones, but said that Crumlin Road Prison “remained vividly in my mind”.
30. She has a keen interest in Scottish country dance and organizes annual “Gillies’ Balls” for residents, real estate workers and members of the local community when she is staying in Balmoral.
31. Her Majesty has a well-known love for corgis, with her cousin Susan, who gave her an 18-year-old birthday present, and then accompanies her on a honeymoon.
32. He created his own dog breed – a “dorgi” – when one of his corgis mated with a dachshund named Pipkin that belonged to Princess Margaret.
Image: Queen leaves Buckingham Palace for Windsor on March 19, 2020, three days before the blockade
33. The queen loves horses. His thoroughbreds have won four of the five flat racing classics: the 1,000 Guineas, the 2,000 Guineas, the Oaks and the St Leger. The only thing he didn’t get was the Derby.
34. She made sporting history when she became the first reigning monarch to win the Royal Ascot Gold Cup with her purebred estimation in 2013.
35. The queen is also a great pigeon fancier. In 1990, one of his birds took part in the Peace Race, first in the Section 5 Open and later named Sandringham Lightning.
36. It has its own currency, the silver coins known as St. John’s money, which it gives to the elderly on Holy Thursday, between March and April of each year.
37. But he only carries money in his purse on Sundays to give to the church.
38. The Queen played herself in a parody for the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics alongside Daniel Craig’s James Bond (although she did not parachute into the Olympic Stadium, as shown).
39. In April 2013 she received an honorary BAFTA for her sponsorship of the film industry and was christened the “Most Memorable Bond Girl to Date” after appearing at the Olympics the previous year.
Image: Queen meets James Bond star Daniel Craig at a November 2006 premiere
40. He sat down for the first and only hologram portrait in 2003.
41. The Queen hosted the first female performance at Buckingham Palace in 2004. The successful women’s luncheon was attended by JK Rowling, Twiggy and Kate Moss, among others.
42. She became the first Canadian monarch to open parliament in 1957, the country’s 23rd.
43. A riot broke out when he visited Quebec in 1964 amid the separatist movement in the region. No member of the royal family returned there for 50 years, until the visit of Prince William in 2011.
44. For her 80th birthday in 2006, she invited 2,000 children to celebrate with her at Buckingham Palace.
45. Two days earlier he organized a party for other seniors turning 80 across the country.
46. On the occasion of his golden jubilee in June 2002, he organized the first public concert at Buckingham Palace. The Party at the Palace was one of the most watched television shows in history with 200 million viewers worldwide.
Image: The Queen with Sir Cliff Richard at the Golden Jubilee Party at the Palace in June 2002
47. It saw her become the first royal to receive a gold record, with 100,000 copies of the Party at the Palace CD sold out a week after its release.
48. Her bedroom at Buckingham Palace was packed before waking up on July 9, 1982. Charges against the intruder, Michael Fagan, were dropped after a psychiatric report.
49. She became the first British monarch to speak at a joint meeting of the United States Congress in 1991, following the coalition’s victory in the Gulf War.
50. With the birth of Prince Andrew in 1960, the queen became the first reigning ruler to have a son since Queen Victoria.
51. The queen stopped driving on the public road in March 2019, although she has never needed a license, as they are issued in her name.
Image: The Queen driving in Windsor in May 2014
52. She is affectionately known as “gan-gan” by Prince George, according to the Duchess of Cambridge. The term has been used to describe the great-grandmothers of the royal family for generations.
53. She underwent both knee lock surgery in 2003.
54. The Queen was the first monarch to attend a cabinet meeting in more than 100 years when she joined David Cameron in December 2012 to mark the end of her diamond jubilee year.
55. It made history in 1982 when Pope John Paul II became the first to receive it from a British monarch in 450 years.
56. Elizabeth II is the 40th monarch since William the Conqueror obtained the crown of England in 1066.
57. She is the only monarch to have celebrated a diamond or platinum wedding anniversary.
Image: Queen and Prince Philip pose at Broadlands in Hampshire for their 2007 diamond wedding anniversary
58. At least eight actresses have played her in movies and television series, most recently Olivia Colman in The Crown.
59. In 1993 he opened Buckingham Palace …