Queen’s visit to Ceylon coincides with birthday – archive, 21 Apr 1954

21 April 1954: Official telegrams have already started to arrive, and messages from Prince Charles and Princess Anne will be brought by special courier

Colombo, April 20
A crowd expected to number fifty thousand will sing "Happy Birthday" for the Queen here tomorrow - her twenty-eighth birthday. They will be watching her review troops of the three Services on her last day in Ceylon.

After the review the Queen will hold an investiture. Then she and the Duke will rest until they board the Gothic in the evening to set out for Aden, though it is expected that they will give an informal luncheon party with the Governor-General, Lord Soulbury, as principal guest.