The Queen's official birthday is marked with the Trooping the Colour parade, also known as The Queen's Birthday Parade, which is due to take place on 15 June this year.
He was awarded an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list in June 2005.
The chairman of Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) has been made a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours.
The medal was reintroduced earlier in the year for the Queen's Birthday Honours after being scrapped in 1993.
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Cookery writer and broadcaster Mary Berry from Buckinghamshire is among those to be recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours list.
He introduced the "Putting People First" programme and received the Queen's Police Medal in the Queen's Birthday Honours in June 2005.
In February, Prince Charles made her a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours for services to the film industry and to charity.
He was named an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours of 1998.
The Prince of Wales's Division Band, based in Tidworth, Wiltshire, will entertain frontline troops in June this year as part of the Queen's birthday parade.
Welsh people from all walks of life are already recognised along with others throughout the UK and Commonwealth in the annual New Year and Queen's Birthday Honours lists.
Take That star Barlow featured on the Queen's Birthday Honours list just days after the Jubilee single Sing, which he penned with Andrew Lloyd Webber, topped the UK singles chart.
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Buckingham Palace said the Queen was taking her birthday weekend off to spend it with her family as well as to enjoy her favourite pastime - horseracing.
In 2006, it emerged that Winner had turned down an OBE in the Queen's 80th birthday honours list for his part in campaigning for the Police Memorial Trust.
During this period Hendricks Sr. took the African Queen around the world, gracing flotillas that marked the 50th anniversary of the battle of Dunkirk in the English Channel and the Queen Mother's 90th birthday on the River Thames.
"I wanted to win the gold medal as a gift for Thailand's Queen, who celebrated her 72nd birthday last Thursday, " said Udomporn, who was congratulated on the phone by Thailand's Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra minutes after her triumph.
The Queen is expected to celebrate her 87th birthday with her family at Windsor Castle later, following a visit to Newbury Racecourse on Saturday.
It was not accepted by Guinness World Records' rule-keepers due to his lack of a birth certificate, although he did produce a letter from Britain's Queen Elizabeth congratulating him on his 100th birthday.
Up until 2000, life peerages were handed out as part of the Queen's New Year's and Birthday Honours.
Queen Beatrix's mother Juliana resigned the throne in 1980 on her 71st birthday, and her grandmother Wilhelmina abdicated in 1948 at the age of 68.
She appeared alongside the new couple on her 63rd birthday and, during a rare public appearance to announce their engagement, the queen described her daughter-in-law as "an intelligent modern woman".
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