{"id":208333,"date":"2016-04-21T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T09:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=208333"},"modified":"2016-04-21T09:00:57","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T09:00:57","slug":"queen-rock-strength-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=208333","title":{"rendered":"Queen has been ‘rock of strength’ – PM"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Queen has been “a rock of strength for our nation” and the Commonwealth, Prime Minister David Cameron has said in a tribute to mark her 90th birthday.<\/p>\n

The Prince of Wales has recorded a special radio broadcast for the day, in which he reads an edited passage from William Shakespeare’s Henry VIII.<\/p>\n

Celebrations get under way later as the Queen takes part in a walkabout in Windsor and lights a symbolic beacon.<\/p>\n

A photograph of the monarch with young Royal Family members has been released.<\/p>\n

The image, one of three taken by celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz, shows the Queen surrounded by her five great-grandchildren and her two youngest grandchildren.<\/p>\n

Gun salutes take place around the UK starting from noon, while the prime minister is expected to lead tributes to Britain’s longest serving monarch in the Commons.<\/p>\n

The reading by Prince Charles, to be broadcast by the BBC later, is an extract from a speech by Archbishop Thomas Cranmer to King Henry VIII after the birth of the future Queen Elizabeth I.<\/p>\n

‘Steadfast’<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mr Cameron is expected to say: “Her Majesty The Queen has lived through some extraordinary times in our world.<\/p>\n

“From the Second World War to the rations with which she bought the material for her wedding dress.<\/p>\n

“From presenting the World Cup to England at Wembley in 1966 to man landing on the moon three years later.<\/p>\n

“From the end of the Cold War to peace in Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n

“Throughout it all, as the sands of culture shift and the tides of politics ebb and flow, Her Majesty has been steadfast – a rock of strength for our nation, for our Commonwealth and on many occasions for the whole world.”<\/p>\n

The other Leibovitz photographs show the monarch walking in the grounds of Windsor Castle with four of her dogs and sitting with her daughter, the Princess Royal.<\/p>\n

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The Queen on steps at the rear of the East Terrace and East Garden with her four dogs, her corgis Willow and Holly and dorgis Vulcan and Candy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n
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One of the pictures is an informal shot of the Queen with her daughter, Princess Anne<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n

The image of the Queen with the young royals was taken in the Green Drawing Room, part of Windsor Castle’s semi-State apartments just after Easter.<\/p>\n

In it, the Queen – in the tradition of royal portraiture – holds her youngest great-grandchild Princess Charlotte, who is 11 months old, in her arms.<\/p>\n

Also appearing in the image is two-year-old Prince George, Zara Phillips’s two-year-old daughter Mia Tindall, who holds the Queen’s famous black handbag, and Peter Phillips’s daughters Savannah, five, and three-year-old Isla.<\/p>\n

The Queen is also joined by the two youngest of her eight grandchildren – the Earl and Countess of Wessex’s children – James, Viscount Severn, eight, and Lady Louise Windsor.<\/p>\n

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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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