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Queen Elizabeth is 90 years today, Royals pays tribute

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April 21, 2016

TVC E. Queen Elizabeth the only surviving child of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, is 90 years today 21 of April 2016. And at the time of her birth (April 21, 1926) she was heir to the throne. She was born in Kent, England.

The Duke of Cambridge has paid tribute to Queen Elizabeth II on her 90th birthday for helping him cope with the loss of his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales.

“She’s been a very strong female influence,” Prince William said on Sky News. “And having lost my mother at a young age, it’s been particularly important to me that I’ve had somebody like the Queen to look up to and who’s been there and who has understood some of the more, um, complex issues when you lose a loved one.” Diana died in 1997 in a Paris automobile crash.

William also recalled an incident when his grandmother chastised him when he got into trouble with his cousins Peter and Zara Phillips while driving an all-terrain bike in Scotland.

He said: “We were chasing Zara around who was on a go-cart, and Peter and I managed to herd Zara into a lamppost. And the lamppost came down and nearly squashed her, and I remember my grandmother being the first person out at Balmoral running across the lawn in her kilt.

“(She) came charging over and gave us the most almighty b****cking, and that sort of stuck in my mind from that moment on.”

Last year, the Queen gained the title of Britain’s longest-ever reigning monarch. On Thursday, she achieved another milestone as the nation’s first sovereign to celebrate her 90th birthday.

She plans to mark the day with a walkabout near her main residence in Windsor, west of London, before lighting a beacon relay in the evening.

Brief history about QUEEN ELIZABETH

Elizabeth was the only surviving child of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. At the time of her birth she was heir to the throne.

However, when Elizabeth was two-years-old, her mother was executed. A year later, a male heir, Edward, was born.

She only returned to her father’s court when he married his sixth and final wife Katherine Parr. After Henry’s death, she lived at her stepmother’s home with her new husband, Thomas Seymour.

However, she left her home following an incident with Seymour. Although no one really knows what happened, it is thought Katherine found Elizabeth kissing him.

On King Edward’s death of consumption in 1553, Elizabeth’s sister Mary came to the throne, and Elizabeth was briefly confined to the Tower of London for suspected treason and collaboration with the rebel Thomas Wyatt. After a few months in the Tower, she was sent to Woodstock and placed under house arrest for a year. It was only when Mary I thought she was pregnant that Elizabeth was allowed to return to her Hatfield residence.

Mary’s marriage to Philip II of Spain made it seem possible that an heir would be born, but Mary died childless in 1558. Elizabeth I was crowned Queen of England on 15 January 1559.

A boy in Belfast, Northern Ireland, takes a selfie in front of the Queen in June 2014.