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Anniversary Messages

Messages are prepared by the Court Post Office

Messages are prepared for sending in the Court Post Office at Buckingham Palace
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WHO IS ENTITLED?

The Queen will send a congratulatory message on the following occasions.

Wedding anniversaries
The Queen sends messages for diamond (sixtieth), sixty-fifth and platinum (seventieth) wedding anniversaries and then every year thereafter.

Her Majesty does not send a message for Silver (twenty-fifth), Ruby (fortieth) or Golden (fiftieth) wedding anniversaries.

Birthdays
The Queen sends messages for one hundredth and one hundred and fifth birthdays and then every year thereafter.

Countries entitled to receive a message
It is Her Majesty's custom to send a message only to citizens of her realms or UK Overseas Territories as follows:

Realms		UK Overseas Territories
Antigua and Barbuda		Anguilla
Australia		Bermuda
Bahamas		British Antarctic Territory
Barbados		British Indian Ocean Territory
Belize		British Virgin Islands
Canada		Cayman Islands
Grenada		Falkland Islands
Jamaica		Gibraltar
New Zealand		Montserrat
Papua New Guinea		Pitcairn Group of Islands
Solomon Islands		St. Helena and its dependencies
St. Christopher and Nevis		South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
St. Lucia		Sovereign Base Areas of Cyprus (air bases)
St. Vincent and the Grenadines		Turks and Caicos Islands
Tuvalu
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland