Queen Elizabeth celebrates 96th birthday, royal family shares pictures with her horses
Queen Elizabeth is celebrating her 96th birthday today. This birthday comes during the queen's platinum jubilee year, marking her 70 years on the throne.
Queen Elizabeth's 96th birthday, which is being celebrated today, April 21 will be marked with gun salutes, the release of a Barbie doll and a new photograph showing Britain's longest-serving monarch with two white ponies at Windsor Castle.(via REUTERS)
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The monarch's birthday is marked by a gun salute in London's Hyde Park. In this photo, members of the King's Troop Royal Artillery can be seen firing a Royal Salute of 42 guns.(AP)
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On the occasion of Queen Elizabeth's birthday, Barbie's tribute series honoured Queen Elizabeth, by dedicating a Barbie doll in her likeness.(REUTERS)
As per the pictures obtained by People magazine, the British monarch got her own Barbie doll in her likeness, inspired by one of her most iconic looks.(AFP)
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The picture sees the doll wearing an elegant ivory gown with a blue sash. Her regal ensemble is completed with a stunning tiara based on Queen Mary's Fringe Tiara, which Queen Elizabeth II wore for her wedding to Prince Philip, and matching accessories.(AFP)
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Tribals and farmers affected by the Ken-Betwa river-linking project stage a symbolic Chita Andolan (pyre protests), Jal Satyagraha and hanging satyagraha by placing nooses around their necks, over their demands of better compensation and rehabilitation, in Chhatarpur district, Madhya Pradesh. The 15-day protest ended after police removed them from site.
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Parallelly, the crackdown on protesters to maintain law and order situation in the sensitive areas of Central Delhi continued with lathi charge, tear gas firing etc.
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Television evangilist Joni Lamb sings a praise song during 'Celebration', a show that she and her husband Marcus host on the Daystar Network, on July 30, 2001.
