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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 240193, member: 4626&quot;]Not exactly on topic, but had a question that Aidan or someone else from New Zealand or Australia may knoe the answer to.&nbsp; Just noticed on my calendar that New Zealand celebrated &quot;Queen&#039;s Birthday&quot; on June 4 and Australia will celebrate it on June 11.&nbsp; I&#039;m confused about the timing of such a holiday though, because the cuurent queen&#039;s birthday happens to be April 21.&nbsp; The previous reigning queen&#039;s birthday (Victoria) was on May 24... I haven&#039;t gone much further than that, but I haven&#039;t found any female British monarch who happened to have been born on June 4 or June 11.&nbsp; So why were those specific dates chosen?&nbsp; Is there any actual significance to those days, or did they just decide to have a holiday honoring the queen that time of year regardless of when her actual birthdate may be?&nbsp; Was their a previous queen whose birthday fell on or close to those dates that it still celebrates (perhaps not a reigning queen; i.e. the wife of a reigning king)?&nbsp; Just curious if anyone knows the answer to this.&nbsp; It&#039;s always struck me as odd.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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