The Queen will mark her loneliest birthday - her first without husband Philip in seven decades - with video calls from family and a walk with her new puppies.
The monarch turns 95 on Wednesday, just four days after the Duke of Edinburgh's funeral, where the Queen was forced to sit alone and wear a face mask due to England's coronavirus lockdown rules.
She and the rest of the Royal Family will still be in an official two-week period of mourning for her late husband of 73 years, who died aged 99 on April 9.
The Queen is expected to have a video call with great-grandchildren Prince George, seven, Princess Charlotte, five, and Prince Louis, two - on Wednesday, and the royals have agreed a rota to visit her ahead of her birthday, sources
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