[NormsRevenge]

Queen Elizabeth II, pictured here at Windsor Castle, marks her 80th birthday with a host of parties and engagements that run until June.(AFP/pool/files/Ian Waldie )

[NormsRevenge]

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II leaves after attending the traditional Easter Sunday Service at St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle, April 16, 2006. REUTERS/ Fiona Hanson/PA/Pool

[Byron_the_Aussie]

...recent successes, such as Charles's remarriage a year ago to Camilla Parker Bowles, his former mistress and fellow countryside enthusiast, also gave the royals a new lease of life....

LOL! If there was ever any doubt about the shallowness of the current media, their inabilty to view the royal family as anything other than soap opera stars confirms it. Despite - or maybe, because of?- their best efforts, Queen Elizabeth remains an object of affection and respect throughout the Commonwealth.

[Roccus]

I can remember that day in 1953. On TV, my mother, a neighbor and myself watched an American military jet land at Idlewld Int. Airport (now JFK) and hand off the film cannisters containing images of the coronation to a motorcyclist who then raced them to the TV studio in Manhattan for broadcast. They were touting this 'new system' where the films had been developed en route from England.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Happy Birthday to a great lady. Cheers!

[Roccus]

PING!