The short answer is that April is too cold for a parade. Whilst 21 April is more of a private celebration, Trooping the Colour marks the sovereign's official celebration. Queen Elizabeth II was not the first monarch to do this.
Queen Elizabeth II was born on April 21 and celebrated her birthday with her family on this day. In Britain, the weather during April is generally cold, and she couldn't let her subjects stand out in the cold to cheer her on. Hence, she celebrated her official birthday for the nation on another day in June.
King George VI had a public holiday wrapped into his Coronation Day on May 12, and similarly Queen Elizabeth II had a joint birthday and coronation on June 2. So depending on what time of year Charles has his coronation, Australians might have the public holiday moved to a different time of year.
Like many British monarchs before her, the Queen likes to commemorate the occasion on two separate days—once on the actual anniversary of the day she was born (April 21) and again on a Saturday in June (dubbed the “official celebration”).
But U.K. monarchs have traditionally celebrate two birthdays — their real one and an official one — to ensure that public celebrations can take place in warm summer weather.
Princess Alexia of the Netherlands
The thirteen-year-old royal is second in line for the throne, following her older sibling.
Prince George, Princess Charlotte, Prince Louis, and Prince Archie may be the most well-known members of the youngest generation of royals, but they have some adorable relatives who tend to stay out of the spotlight. One such member of the royal family? Isla Phillips, the 11-year-old granddaughter of Princess Anne.
Until 1936, it was held on the actual birthday of the monarch, but, after King George V died, it was decided to keep the date on the second Monday in June. This has more evenly spaced out public holidays throughout the year.
The Queen's Birthday public holiday will officially be known as the King's Birthday public holiday from next year. The Public Holidays Act 2010 amendment has been gazetted and will be effective as of January 13, 2023. The holiday remains the same, save for a change in name.
April 21, 1926: Born Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary in Mayfair, London, the first child of the future King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, later called the Queen Mother.
The day is a holiday in Western Australia at a different date to that observed by other parts of the country. The governor in Western Australia proclaims the holiday's date for this state. There are no fast rules about when it will fall but it is often on the last Monday of September or the first Monday of October.
Even though Queen Elizabeth II's actual birthday was on April 21, NSW followed a UK royal tradition where official celebrations were held in June due to the greater likelihood of nicer weather.
She originally set it to fall on the second Thursday of June, the same date her father King George VI had chosen. Later, in 1959, she moved her birthday celebrations to the second Saturday of June and has kept that date ever since.
It has been reported that the Queen and Prince Phillip didn't share a bed because of a tradition followed by the upper classes. Not only did the monarch and her husband not share a bed, but it's also believed that they each had separate bedrooms altogether.
Queen Elizabeth II's handbags served as both practical fashion statements and a means of communicating with her servants in secret about when she wanted conversations to finish, according to a number of Royal specialists. The Queen always carried a handbag on her arm to match her extravagant attire or the occasion.
The National Audit Office was not entitled to audit the Royal Household. The Queen received an annual £7.9 million a year from the civil list between 2001 and 2012.
Why does Queensland celebrate the Queen's Birthday in October? The Labor Bligh government changed the Queen's Birthday in 2012 from the traditional June date to the first weekend of October to better spread out the public holidays in the second half of the year.
The answer is yes, the places that previously celebrated the Queen's Birthday will still have the day as a public holiday moving forward, despite the monarch's death (side note: her birthday was actually June 21).
Queen's Birthday in Australia
Queen's Birthday is public holiday in 2024 in Northern Territory, South Australia, New South Wales, Australian Capital Territory, Victoria and Tasmania.
As of this year, the Queen's Birthday public holiday will be known as the King's Birthday – a label that will most likely stick for the next two generations of monarchs at least.
The Queen celebrates two birthdays each year: her actual birthday on 21 April and her official birthday on (usually) the second Saturday in June.
The Princess was christened Elizabeth Alexandra Mary in the private chapel at Buckingham Palace. She was named after her mother, while her two middle names are those of her paternal great-grandmother, Queen Alexandra, and paternal grandmother, Queen Mary.
Who was Leonora Knatchbull? Leonora Louise Marie Elizabeth Knatchbull was the youngest child of Norton Knatchbull, 3rd Earl of Mountbatten, and Penelope Knatchbull, Countess Mountbatten of Burma. She was born on June 25, 1986, and died from kidney cancer on Oct. 22, 1991 at the age of five.
The Guinness World Record for the Oldest Royal actually belongs to Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester. Princess Alice became the oldest known royal in history when she reached the age of 101 years and 269 days on September 20, 2003.
Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh, KG, GCVO, CD, ADC (Edward Antony Richard Louis; born 10 March 1964), is the youngest child of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and the youngest sibling of King Charles III.