Huge Street Party Will Celebrate The Queen's 90th Birthday

The historic Mall in London will host one of the largest street parties the country has ever seen to celebrate the Queen’s 90th birthday next year.Some 10,000 people will be treated to a classic British hamper lunch as they sit down to mark the monarch’s milestone, as well as her lifelong patronage of more than 600 charities and national organisations, Buckingham Palace have announced.

The others are a National Service of Thanksgiving at St Paul’s on Friday June 10 and the traditional Queen’s Birthday Parade at Horse Guards on Saturday June 11.Her actual birthday is April 21.Intriguingly Buckingham Palace are keen to push the Queen’s 90th birthday next year as a focus of national celebration rather than when she becomes the country’s longest-serving monarch on September 9.On that day she will overtake her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria, who reigned for 23,226 days, 16 hours and 23 minutes.But it is an extraordinary milestone the present Queen is reluctant to commemorate, feeling that it somehow lacks dignity to be seen celebrating surpassing her famous relative.

Instead she will mark the day with modest engagement in Scotland, where she will be holidaying at the time.‘It’s just her way of looking at things,’ said a senior royal source.‘She believes September should be very much business as usual but is happy that people want to mark her official birthday in her landmark 90th year.’The Patron’s Lunch event in June, which is being organised by her grandson, Peter Phillips, will more than make up for it, however, and is designed to celebrate the Queen’s charitable patronages and ‘the unrelenting support and service our monarch has given to the community over her 63 year reign’.