A right royal birthday

QUEEN Elizabeth II celebrated her 92nd birthday with a Saturday night concert in London featuring stars such as Sting, Tom Jones and Kylie Minogue.

Jamie Cullum, Shaggy and Craig David also performed for the ‘Queen’s Birthday Party’ at Royal Albert Hall.

Elizabeth — the world’s longestreigning living monarch — attended the show with other members of the royal family. Flanked by Prince Charles and Prince William, first and second in line for the throne, she waved to the crowd as she took her seat. The audience sang Happy Birthday when the queen went on stage toward the end of the program.

Prince Harry, with fiancee Meghan Markle as his concert date, led the tributes to his grandmother.

Earlier in the day, honorary gun salutes were staged at Hyde Park, the Tower of London, a castle in Wales and the town of Windsor to mark the occasion.

The queen celebrates two birthdays every year: Her actual birthday irthday on April 21, which she usually y marks privately with her family, ly, and her “official birthday” in the summer.

That usually falls on the second Saturday in June, when she joins the Trooping the Colour military parade in central London.

Elizabeth’s official birthday this year came on the tails of the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting, which brought the leaders of the 53 Commonwealth countries together ther in England.