Queen's Birthday Weekend, Is her birthday really in June?

The Queen's real birthday is actually April 21, 1926 so her age is 89. The Queen’s Birthday is celebrated in New Zealand on the first Monday of June each year. In other parts of the world, however, it’s celebrated at different times. In the UK, for instance it can fall variously on the first, second or third Saturday of June and it’s not even a public holiday. In Canada it’s rolled in with Victoria Day and is celebrated on Queen Victoria’s birth date of 24th May. And the Aussies take their Queen’s Birthday day off on the second Monday in June. How can one woman have so many different birthdays? Well, the holidays celebrated in Commonwealth countries to mark the Sovereign’s birthday mark the Queen’s official birthday, not her real one of 21st April 1926.The fact that holidays for the Queen’s official birthday fall on different dates in different countries is a result of historical tradition.