Congratulations Ma'am

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MrsH

Today Her Majesty the Queen becomes our country’s longest reigning Monarch.

The Queen is Head of State of the UK and 15 other Commonwealth realms.

The elder daughter of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, she was born in 1926 and became Queen at the age of 25, and has reigned through more than five decades of enormous social change and development.

The Queen is in Edinburgh on the day she becomes Britain's longest reigning monarch.

Bad weather delayed her arrival at Waverley Station, but the 89-year-old monarch and the Duke of Edinburgh have now set off on the new Borders Railway.

The Queen will have reigned for 63 years and seven months - calculated at 23,226 days, 16 hours and approximately 30 minutes at about 17:30 BST.

The exact moment the Queen becomes the longest-reigning sovereign is not known because her father, George VI, passed away in the early hours of 6 February 1952.

Congratulations Ma'am

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Former Member

Cheers Yer Maj

9/9/154:42 AM

El LoroMember VIP10 yearsModerator

It's been a Gloucester custom for centuries for an unusual present to be sent to royalty on notable occasions such as the coronation, a jubilee or some other notable event. Today, the mayor of Gloucester Seb Field presented the gift to the Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire Dame Janet Trotter, the Queen's representative in the county to present to the Queen.

I doubt if we'll ever get to hear what the Queen makes of the present.

As is the custom, it's a huge lamprey (an eel-like fish) pie

It's very unlikely that she would eat the whole pie as she would not want the same fate as Henry I.

9/9/156:40 AM

Former Member

Now that's a pie!!! Wonder what the Bake Off judges would make of that?

9/9/157:26 AM

El LoroMember VIP10 yearsModerator

Originally Posted by Roger the Alien:

Now that's a pie!!! Wonder what the Bake Off judges would make of that?

probably not as impressed as the one from Gloucester made in 2002 for the Golden Jubilee:

9/9/157:39 AM

BazMember VIP10 years

Originally Posted by Roger the Alien:

Cheers Yer Maj

And ditto from me Your highness

9/9/159:30 AM

El LoroMember VIP10 yearsModerator

5.30 and she's now the longest reigning monarch in UK history

9/9/159:31 AM

BazMember VIP10 years

Originally Posted by El Loro:

5.30 and she's now the longest reigning monarch in UK history

9/9/159:32 AM

KaffsMember 10 years

Originally Posted by El Loro:

5.30 and she's now the longest reigning monarch in UK history

yay... she made it!

I bet someone somewhere heaved a sigh of relief at 5.30 p.m.

9/9/1510:26 AM

MrsHMember

@Kaffs

9/9/1511:05 AM

Yogi19Member 10 years

Originally Posted by El Loro:

5.30 and she's now the longest reigning monarch in UK history

Congratulations to the Queen.

9/9/1511:45 AM

CarnelianMember 10 years

Yeah, congratulations for not being dead.

9/11/152:22 PM

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