28 Facts About Queens Birthday

1. Queens Birthday's is a great and loyal thing to me.

2. Queens Birthday's has the same name as the little girl in the movie Drop dead Fred.

3. Queens Birthday's was born on April 21, 1926, although her official birthday is celebrated on a range of dates in the different countries of the Commonwealth of Nations.

4. Queens Birthday's is the head of state of many other countries and territories, including Great Britain, Northern Ireland, Canada and New Zealand.

5. Queens Birthday's has visited Australia 16 times, Canada 22 times, Jamaica six and New Zealand 10 times.

6. Queens Birthday's has answered around 3.5 million pieces of correspondence.

7. Queens Birthday's has sent over 175,000 telegrams to centenarians in the UK and Commonwealth.

8. Queens Birthday's made her first public speech in October 1940 at the age of 14 in a radio address on BBC's Children's Hour.

9. Queens Birthday's has made a Christmas broadcast to the Commonwealth every year of her reign except 1969, when a repeat of the documentary film Royal Family was shown.

10. Queens Birthday's has owned more than 30 corgis, starting with Susan who was a present for her 18th birthday in 1944.

11. Queens Birthday's sent a message of congratulations to Apollo 11 astronauts for the first Moon landing on 21 July, 1969.

12. Queens Birthday's became Britain's longest-reigning monarch on 9 September, 2015, breaking the record previously set by her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria.

13. Queens Birthday's has a cushion in her private sitting room at Balmoral embroidered with the words "It's good to be Queen".

14. Queens Birthday's sent her first email in 1976 from an Army base.

15. Queens Birthday's was the 40th monarch since William the Conqueror obtained the crown of England.

16. Queens Birthday's went on her first overseas tour to southern Africa in 1947, accompanied by her parents.

17. Queens Birthday's learned to drive in 1945 when she joined the Army.

18. Queens Birthday's travelled on the London Underground for the first time in May 1939 with her governess Marion Crawford and Princess Margaret.

19. Queens Birthday's was educated at home with Margaret by tutors including their father and the Archbishop of Canterbury.

20. Queens Birthday's once fell in the lake at Buckingham Palace as a child, looking for a duck's nest, and ended up covered in green slime.

21. Queens Birthday's was much-loved by her grandfather George V and her visits were credited with aiding his recovery during his serious illness in 1929.

22. Queens Birthday's was christened on 29 May, 1926, in the private chapel at Buckingham Palace.

23. Queens Birthday's demoted a footman for feeding her corgis whisky.

24. Queens Birthday's is the only British monarch in history properly trained to change a spark plug.

25. Queens Birthday's has sent around 100,000 telegrams to centenarians in the UK and the Commonwealth.

26. Queens Birthday's was instructed in religion by the Archbishop of Canterbury.

27. Queens Birthday's kept extra warm in a pair of opaque black tights.

28. Queens Birthday's paired the dress with black tights and boots for the talk show gig.