HAPPY 90th birthday your majesty!
From flags in the street to children dressed up as kings and queens, celebrations are in full swing for the 90th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II.
Church Road Primary School, Captain's Clough Road, held an outdoor tea party where children dressed as either kings, queens or in red white and blue.
Kelly Hulton's Childminding in Horwich is having a party today for the queen with children making crowns and enjoying crafts.
Brandwood Community Primary School is celebrating with children wearing red, white and blue clothes.
The Queen has celebrated her 90th birthday by greeting well-wishers outside Windsor Castle.
Hundreds of royal fans cheered the monarch as she stepped from her car in front of the Henry VIII gate.
Her arrival was marked by a rendition of Happy Birthday by the Band of the Coldstream Guards.
Born Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary of York on April 21 1926 - the year of the General Strike - she was never expected to be Queen.
But she has become the longest reigning and oldest monarch in British history - and now the first to reach 90.
The Queen spent the morning of her birthday in private at her much-loved Berkshire castle - the family home of the nation's sovereigns for more than 1,000 years.
She went on to mark her special day by carrying out public duties, including opening a walkway created in her honour and carrying out a walkabout through Windsor town.
Hundreds of royal fans, waving flags and clutching flowers, packed the streets to catch a glimpse of the birthday Queen.
She was accompanied by her husband of more than 68 years, the Duke of Edinburgh, who himself turns 95 in June.
Tributes being paid to the monarch illustrate how much technology has changed during her long reign.
Prime Minister David Cameron tweeted: "The whole country will want to wish the Queen a happy birthday today - she has been a rock of strength for our nation."
Twitter was only a month old a decade ago on the monarch's 80th, while the first public demonstration of a television came in 1926 - the year she was born.
An official photograph of the Queen surrounded by her five great-grandchildren, including Prince George and Princess Charlotte, and her two youngest grandchildren has been taken to mark the occasion.
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