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Celebrations are taking place across the Great Britain today as Queen Elizabeth II turns 81. She has been on the throne for more than half a century. But as NBC’s Donna F. explains her popularity has never been stronger.
At her age, most people are enjoying retirement, but now Queen Elizabeth II at 81, she’s still hard at work. As the guns saluted her birthday in London this morning, the Queen seems to be taking aging like everything else --- perfectly in stride, and she’s as beloved by her subjects as ever before.
She's a wonderful lady. I think we should be very proud that we’ve got her.
We are one of the luckiest people in the world to have the Queen govern us. No other countries got that, and we are proud of that.
She is steadfast true. She's become something overall for the nation in a turbulent and dangerous age. And she’s something to look up to, an icon that people can respect.
She attends about 450 engagements every year, / has met 10 US Presidents from Harry Truman to JFK, and Bill Clinton. She's traveled to more countries than any monarch in history and next month, she's off to the US for a 6-day state visit.
At 81, she's a phenomenal powerhouse of energy, but the celebrations today will be low-key, just a private dinner at Windsor Castle and a more formal traditional ceremony in June called The Trooping of the Color.
Since her coronation 55 years ago, the first to be televised, she's become a familiar face around the world, balancing motherhood and monarchy, stoically enduring family scandals, including two of her son's divorcing, and then the death of Princess Diana. As the world mourned, there was criticism that the Queen was aloof and out of touch with public mood. The future of the monarchy seemed under threat, a moment captured in the film The Queen.
No member throughout the family will speak publicly about this. Since it's a private matter.

But in the end, she did speak publicly.
I, for one, believe there are lessons to be drawn from her life and from the extraordinary and moving reaction to her death.
And a film which reviewed the inner life of a woman to whom public duty is everything. One actress Helen Mirren won the Academy Award, and won the real Queen new respect.
We now understand that she did show emotion at the time of Diana’s death but was never allowed to show it publicly, because she has in a way to be seen to rise above that sort of outpouring of emotion. Making The Queen perhaps the best actress of them all, who's showing no signs of stepping off the stage.
For today, Donna F., NBC News, London.