Queen's 96th birthday toasted with gun salutes

Queen's 96th birthday toasted with gun salutes as Royal Family lead tributes to 'inspiration'

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The monarch is celebrating her birthday at the Duke of Edinburgh's cottage on her Sandringham estate, a property she said her late husband "loved".

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The Royal Family has led tributes to the Queen on her 96th birthday as the occasion was toasted with 41 and 62-gun salutes

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and a new photograph of the monarch was released.

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Two salutes were fired, the first, at noon, of 41 guns by The King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery, in Hyde Park, close to Buckingham Palace.

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An hour later, the Honourable Artillery Company, the City of London's Reserve Army Regiment,

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fired 62 guns from Tower Wharf, close to Tower Bridge.

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Earlier, a tweet from the Royal Family account shared a black and white picture of the monarch aged two, taken in 1928.

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