Each year since taking the throne, the Queen’s birthday has been celebrated with a gun salute. This year, for the first time in 68 years, there will be no guns fired to celebrate the birthday of Elizabeth II, reports BBC News, with the tradition postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
RELATED: The Queen’s Trooping The Colour Birthday Parade ‘Will Not Go Ahead In Its Traditional Form’ Due To Coronavirus According to ITV’s Chris Ship, a Buckingham Palace source says that the Queen’s 94th birthday on Tuesday, April 21, will not be celebrated in the traditional manner. “Her Majesty was keen that no special measures were put in place to allow gun salutes as she did not feel it appropriate in the current circumstances,” said the source.
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