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Here's why Queen Elizabeth has two birthdays

The Queen marked turning 92 with a concert at the Royal Albert Hall on Saturday evening. But that is only one of the two birthdays the Queen celebrates. What is traditionally the bigger birthday is actually still to come. The monarch having two birthdays is a measure that was introduced 250 years ago, and it's still going strong. Below is all you need to know about why the Queen gets two days to mark her birthday every year instead of one. The Queen was born at 2.40am on April 21 at her maternal grandfather's London house. But she also has an official birthday in June - usually on the second Saturday. This year it falls on Saturday June 9. The reason for this second birthday all comes down to the British weather. Since 1748, the monarch's official birthday has been marked by the parade known as Trooping the Colour - usually held on the king or queen's actual birthday. But Edward VII, who reigned from 1901 to 1910, was born in November. Due to the harsh Novemb...

Malala Yousafzai Spends Her 19th Birthday in World’s Largest Refugee Camp

  Malala Yousafza, speaks to refugees in the Dadaab refugee camp, Kenya, on July 12, 2016. Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai spent her 19th birthday on Tuesday in Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camps, the world’s largest, aiming to draw attention to the global migrant crisis and the plight of those living in the Kenyan camp.