Just days afterQueen Elizabethappeared on the Buckingham Palace balcony for her annualbirthday festivities at Trooping the Colour, she stepped out to celebrate the birthday of a longtime friend.
Queen Elizabethhasreportedly owned more than 200 Launer handbagsover the years, with her loyalty to the brand beginning in 1968, when designer Sam Launer sent her a bag. Thebag even made a surprise cameoin an official portrait of her unveiled last year — and made a very memorableappearance in her 90th birthday portraitthanks to great-granddaughter Mia Tindall!
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Sir Jackie Stewart and Queen Elizabeth.Isabel Infantes/PA Images/Getty
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The Queen and Sir Jackie, a former Formula 1 driver, have been friends for decades. He’s enjoyed staying at her royal residences, and even tapped Princess Anne to write the foreword for his biography. His wife, Helen, is also godmother to Anne’s daughter, Zara Tindall.
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The Queen, who was born on April 21, 1926, celebrated her birthday this year privately with members of the royal family. Since the occasion also fell on Easter Sunday, the royal attended church services with family.
While the Queen typically celebrates her actual birthday privately, it’s also customary to celebrate a sovereign’s birthday publicly on a day during the summer, when the weather is nicer. The royal family gathered together last weekend for Trooping the Colour, the monarch’s annual birthday parade.
source: people.com
