Queens Makes For Interesting Lists

Zervas emails to point out an interesting list of facts about Queen Elizabeth. The Queen turned 80 on April 21st.

Interesting things pertaining to Queen Elizabeth:

1. A statute from 1324, at the time of the reign of King Edward II, states that: “Also the King shall have … whales and sturgeons taken in the sea or elsewhere within the realm.” This statute is still valid today, and sturgeons, porpoises, whales and dolphins are recognised as “Fishes Royal”
2. In 2003 she sat for the first and only hologram portrait.
3. The Queen has received many unusual gifts including a variety of live animals… Among them jaguars and sloths from Brazil, and two black beavers from Canada. There have also been gifts of pineapples, eggs, a box of snail shells, a grove of maple trees and 7kg of prawns
4. Elizabeth also introduced a new breed of dog known as the “dorgi”
5. She sent her first email in 1976 from a British Army base
6. She sent a message of congratulations to Apollo 11 astronauts for the first moon landing on July 21, 1969 . The message was micro-filmed and deposited on the moon in a metal container