Happy Birthday, Your Majesty

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Seven days in advance, this is just a simple reminder of and lead-up to the 85th birthday on April 21 of Elizabeth, the constitutional monarch of sixteen independent sovereign states known as the Commonwealth realms: the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 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 and Head of the 54-member Commonwealth of Nations representing one-third of the world's population.

To give some perspective to the longevity of our head of state:















-- more to come...