Monday 7 June is a holiday on which New Zealand celebrates the birthday of Queen Elizabeth II. 21 April was her actual birthday and she turned 84 (she was born in 1926).
Here’s some things regal:
- Books on Queen Elizabeth II
- The Queen’s page on the official website of the British Monarchy
- Queens of England (The Tudors are perennially popular subjects of both fiction and non fiction – think Mary, Elizabeth I, Anne Boleyn and the rest of Henry VIII’s wives)
Queen’s Birthday honours are traditionally bestowed over the long weekend.
And other queenly things:
- Freddy Mercury & Co
- Queenie in Blackadder the Second – Miranda Richardson squeaks it up as Elizabeth I
- God Save the Queen – The Sex Pistols
Christchurch City Libraries Blog 
We are having a display of all things queenly or queenish in the Popular Centre in Central Library…come in and catch a corgi!
I left off Helen Mirren as the Queen … Normally I hate royal biopics. Remember when there was a spate of them with poor old Charles lumbered with comedy ears?
But Helen Mirren and the wonderful Michael Sheen as Tony Blair make it brilliant.
Michael Sheen is quite the man du jour, starring as the English Wesley Snipes in 30 Rock, and in Twilight II the return of the SixPack
I just think, “Hey hey this is Queensland!” when I think of Queeny things now. Australia really wins at the dreadful tourism campaigns.