AN eight-year-old boy has been given a royal thank you after wishing the Queen a happy 90th birthday.

Tieo Herman-Smith sent her Majesty the Queen a birthday card after learning of her milestone celebration.

The St Thomas Chequerbent Primary School pupil wrote the card with his mum Kerry and grandmother Ann and included a picture of himself at Beavers, alongside his birthday message.

Tieo, who has now moved up to Cubs, said: “I was really happy that I got the letter.

“I wanted to send her a card because the Queen is very special and she rules the country and also looks very pretty.

“My friends didn’t believe me that I had got the letter because they said I needed to be 100 to get one.”

The youngster has had the card, letter and envelope put in a frame for safe keeping and said he might put it on his bedroom wall.

His grandmother Anne Herman, aged 70, who lives with her grandson and daughter, in Broadheath Close, in Westhoughton, said: “He was so pleased with it.

“He knew where it had come from because it had Buckingham Palace on the envelope.

“He was amazed by it.

“I got him the card and his mum wrote a little message in it and so did I and then he did and put a picture of him in the Beavers in the card.

“We had a bit of a grand opening ceremony his mum, me and him when the reply came, he was really really excited.”

The youngster posted off his card in time for Queen Elizabeth, the longest serving monarch, to receive it on her birthday, April 21 and got a thank you card and a letter from the Queen and her lady in waiting.

Mrs Herman added: “He wants to take it into school now because he said no-one believed him that the Queen could have written to him.”