{"id":12513,"date":"2018-04-20T15:05:50","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T14:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/?p=12513"},"modified":"2018-04-20T15:05:50","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T14:05:50","slug":"happy-92nd-birthday-your-royal-highness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/2018\/04\/happy-92nd-birthday-your-royal-highness\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 92nd Birthday Your Royal Highness!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Queens-actual-birthday.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Queens-actual-birthday.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Queens-actual-birthday.png 1500w, https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Queens-actual-birthday-300x130.png 300w, https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Queens-actual-birthday-768x333.png 768w, https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Queens-actual-birthday-1024x444.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Queens-actual-birthday-1200x520.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>April 21st is Queen Elizabeth\u2019s 92nd birthday. This is her actual birthday. Her official birthday is in June. Why does the Queen have two birthdays? No, it\u2019s not because she wants two lots of presents and two cakes, it\u2019s because of the British weather. The Queen has a parade for her birthday, and it\u2019s more likely to be a washout if it\u2019s held in April, so to increase the chances of a sunny parade, it is held on her official birthday date in June. The Queen isn\u2019t alone having two birthdays, Paddington Bear also has two birthdays, so she is in good company. Personally I think it\u2019s a great idea and I think I\u2019ll have an extra birthday this year too!<\/p>\n<p>The Queen tends to celebrate her actual birthday privately, but if you\u2019re in London on the 21st, you\u2019ll hear the traditional gun salutes throughout the city to honour the occasion. A 41 gun salute in Hyde Park, a 21 gun salute in Windsor Great Park and a 62 gun salute at the Tower of London.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/private-number-plates\">Private Plates<\/a> fit for a Queen<\/p>\n<p>I image it\u2019s pretty tricky choosing a birthday present for the Queen! A box of chocolates or a gift set of toiletries somehow doesn\u2019t seem quite enough. We think a private plate would be a great gift for her, or for anyone who loves the royals. She would probably rather suit one of our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/search\/HRH\">HRH plates<\/a>. She could have 3 HRH. If you would love an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/search\/HRH\">HRH plate<\/a> but don\u2019t have a spare \u00a362k to buy this one, then no problem, we have loads of super <a href=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/search\/HRH\">HRH plates<\/a> starting at just \u00a3199. You could pick up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/number-plates-info\/BR07-HRH\">BR07 HRH<\/a> for example.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve also got a fabulous royalty plate available\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/number-plates-info\/ROY-417Y\">ROY 417Y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Did you know\u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Queen is the only person in the UK who can legally drive without a license, she doesn\u2019t need a license plate either so perhaps our gift suggestion isn\u2019t such a good one after all!<\/li>\n<li>She was born at 17 Bruton Street in Mayfair, It\u2019s since been turned into a Cantonese restaurant.<\/li>\n<li>The Queen was once given an elephant as a present. It lives at London Zoo.<\/li>\n<li>She speaks fluent French.<\/li>\n<li>She has been to more than 115 countries and she\u2019s travelled overseas over 250 times.<\/li>\n<li>She sent her first email way back in 1976 while visiting a research facility.<\/li>\n<li>A doorman once put whisky and gin in her corgi\u2019s water bowls and she had to demote him.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 21st is Queen Elizabeth\u2019s 92nd birthday. This is her actual birthday. Her official birthday is in June. Why does the Queen have two birthdays? No, it\u2019s not because she wants two lots of presents and two cakes, it\u2019s because of the British weather. The Queen has a parade for her birthday, and it\u2019s more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123457,"featured_media":12514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[1335,1336],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12513"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12515,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12513\/revisions\/12515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}