Ruler Elizabeth marks 92nd birthday

Ruler Elizabeth II denoted her 92nd birthday on Saturday with customary weapon salutes and a Commonwealth-themed philanthropy show including Tom Jones, Kylie and Shaggy.

Steed drawn firearms terminated 41 times in Hyde Park and 62 times at the Tower of London, while at Windsor Castle, the band played "Cheerful Birthday" amid the changing of the watch.

At night, the ruler and her family were expected to go to a show with entertainers from around the Commonwealth, the 53-country gathering which held its summit in London this week.

Australia's Kylie, Canadian pop diagram topper Shawn Mendes, South African all-male choir Ladysmith Black Mambazo and US-Jamaican reggae star Shaggy were to join British stars including Jones, Craig David and Sting.

The ruler more often than not praises her birthday in private, sparing the ceremony for her official birthday in June.

The show at the Royal Albert Hall will fund-raise for another young philanthropy, The Queen's Commonwealth Trust.

The ruler's grandson sovereign Harry, who will wed US on-screen character Meghan Markle at Windsor on 19 May, is the confide in's new president and was because of give a discourse

The ruler has been the emblematic leader of the Commonwealth since her dad lord George VI's demise in 1952, however its pioneers conceded to Friday that her child and beneficiary Prince Charles ought to succeed her.

The summit was dominated by a line over Britain's treatment of Caribbean migrants, while Charles himself additionally went under examination.

A non-white author, Anita Sethi, guaranteed he clowned about whether she was truly from the British city of Manchester when they met at a Commonwealth meeting this week.

Sethi - whose mother was conceived in Guyana - said Charles asked her where she was from and when she answered, stated: "Well, you don't appear as though it!" and giggled.

She wrote in The Guardian that she felt mortified and irate, including that "a few people, including the sovereign, desperately require a history lesson about movement"