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Queen displays birthday cards
Aug 3, 2006, 15:03 GMT
Britain's Queen Elizabeth has put a selection of her favourite birthday cards on public display.
The monarch received over 50,000 tributes from all over the world for her 80th birthday in April, and she has put the best on show in the Queen's Gallery at Buckingham Palace.
Many of the cards were handcrafted by children and decorated with various materials including tinsel, wool, glitter and paint and some were even crocheted. Most of the tributes feature portraits of the queen herself, while depictions of her pet corgi dogs and the palace's guardsmen also proved popular. The largest card picked for the display measures a metre wide by one-and-half meters long and was designed by children from Meonstoke Infants School, in Hampshire. Teacher Linda Coumbe told Britain's Daily Express newspaper: 'The children will be delighted to know the queen received it and to know it was picked out for the exhibition. This is great. 'The card took a day to create. The older children covered the card with paper and wrote messages inside for the queen while the younger pupils painted faces of themselves with their names underneath.'Copyright 2006 BANG Media International
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