Iluvbertie
Imperial Majesty
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The Queen's 80th birthday celebrations was not quiet.
http://www.royal.gov.uk/HMTheQueen/...thbirthday2006/TheQueens80thbirthday2006.aspx
It is The Queen and the Palace who makes the decisions, the Government approves them.
Many of those events were events that would have taken place anyway - but they decided to dovetail them onto the Queen's birthday - to link them e.g. she visited the BBC - she does that quite often so they made it a 'birthday visit.
Not it is NOT the Queen who decides.
The government decides and she approves them. She is their puppet, not the other way round.
She has three rights - to warn, to advise and to be consulted but ... if a PM decided not to tell her what was going on she could do nothing about it.
She is allowed ONE speech a year that isn't approved in advance - the Christmas Message but if they started to become political it would also be subjected to political approval.
She is simply a puppet who has little say in what she does and when she does it. That is decided for her.