{"id":6706,"date":"2016-06-13T16:32:59","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T15:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=6706"},"modified":"2016-06-13T16:32:59","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T15:32:59","slug":"queen-marks-90th-with-huge-london-street-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/queen-marks-90th-with-huge-london-street-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen marks 90th with huge London street party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1055\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Queen.jpg\" alt=\"Queen\" width=\"293\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Queen.jpg 377w, https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Queen-300x253.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 293px) 100vw, 293px\" \/>Thousands of people gathered for a special street party outside Buckingham Palace on Sunday to mark Queen Elizabeth II\u2019s 90th birthday.<br \/>\nUp to 10,000 people attended the Patron\u2019s Lunch along with the monarch, her husband Prince Philip, Prince William and Prince Harry.<br \/>\nTickets cost \u00a3150 ($215) and most of the guests will be from organizations with which the queen has links.<br \/>\nThe not-for-profit event was organized by the queen\u2019s grandson, Peter Phillips, the son of Princess Anne.<br \/>\n\u201cThe queen has had many celebrations in her honor over the years but there\u2019s never really been an appreciation or recognition of the number of organizations she is personally attached to through her patronage,\u201d Phillips said.<br \/>\nBritain is holding several days of celebrations to mark the queen\u2019s official 90th birthday, which began on Friday with a special service at St. Paul\u2019s Cathedral in London.<br \/>\nOn Saturday, she took the salute at the Trooping the Color military parade which drew a crowd of thousands, with her vivid green outfit causing a sensation.<br \/>\nAfter Trooping the Color, members of the royal family gathered on the balcony of Buckingham Palace to watch a military flypast, including Prince William and Kate with their children George and Charlotte.<br \/>\nThe queen celebrates two birthdays as part of a royal tradition which dates back over 250 years.<br \/>\nThe actual date of her birth is April 21, 1926.<br \/>\nBut her official birthday is also marked in Britain on a Saturday in June with Trooping the Color.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/queen-marks-90th-with-huge-london-street-party\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of people gathered for a special street party outside Buckingham Palace on Sunday to mark Queen Elizabeth II\u2019s 90th birthday. Up to 10,000 people attended the Patron\u2019s Lunch along with the monarch, her husband Prince Philip, Prince William and Prince Harry. Tickets cost \u00a3150 ($215) and most of the guests will be from organizations &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6706"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6707,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6706\/revisions\/6707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}