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For the first time during her reign, the Queen is marking her birthday today without her husband.
Celebrations for Her Majesty’s 95th birthday will be scaled back as it falls during the two-week period of royal mourning for the late Duke of Edinburgh.
Members of the monarchy have been supporting the Queen throughout the mourning period for Philip, and some of her family are expected to be with her at Windsor Castle.
Here we look back at the Queen s visits to Dorset during her reign. WHEN a new princess was born on April 21, 1926, few expected she would ever be Queen.
PHILIP’S first visit to Bournemouth was typical of the independent, quirky man the British public came to know over the past eight decades. Many of the 10,000 who turned out to cheer their young Queen s dashing husband almost missed him because they were looking out for a grand car and plenty of outriders. Instead, Hatless, and dressed in a grey lounge suit , he arrived during a heat haze driving a comparatively small and old-fashioned car which was jammed in a stream of traffic . Philip was greeted that blazing September day in 1949 by church bells and hundreds of flags hung from shops and offices . He was visiting as president of the National Playing Fields Association and to captain his own cricketing XI, containing several England stars, against Hampshire at Dean Park.
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Radipole Primary School (top left), St Mary’s Catholic First School (top right), Queen Elizabeth’s School (middle left), The Woodroffe School (middle right), Stoborough CofE First School (bottom left) and Broadmayne First School (bottom right) SIX schools in Dorset confirmed new Covid-19 cases ahead of them closing for the Christmas holidays last week. Radipole Primary School, based on Radipole Lane in Weymouth, confirmed there has been a Covid-19 case within the school and all close contacts of the individual had been contacted. A spokesman for Public Health Dorset said that the organisation was working with the school and Public Health South West during this period. The recent case comes after a member of the school tested positive for coronavirus earlier in December.