TEN care homes across Glasgow are today holding 90th birthday celebrations for the Queen.
The Lord Provost will join 120 residents at Orchard Grove, where several of them are also celebrating their 90th this year, including Margaret Grier on Monday.
The nine Bailies will also join residents at nine other care homes holding tea parties to toast the Royal birthday.
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At the Orchard Grove tea party staff will dress in vintage clothes and music and songs spanning the Forties and Fifties will form the backdrop to the festivities.
Sadie Docherty said: “I, along with many others, wish Her Majesty the Queen a wonderful birthday. She serves this country with great humility and wisdom. She really is an incredible example to us all and, despite her advanced years, continues to ably represent Britain on the world stage.
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“Therefore I thought it highly appropriate that the council celebrate this historic milestone by holding tea parties for our elderly care home residents to show them how much we value them and appreciate their contribution to our communities.”
The Lord Provost and her Bailies will also present every resident with a commemorative coin to mark the milestone royal birthday.
The Moderator of the general assembly of the Church of Scotland, Reverend Dr Angus Morrison offered "united and affectionate congratulations" to the Queen, saying a happy relationship had long existed between the church and the monarchy.
He said: "Throughout these ninety years Her Majesty has been a regular visitor to Scotland and Her Majesty’s love for and appreciation of Scotland is widely known.
"Her Majesty has attended, on more than one occasion, the Church’s annual General Assembly. In the Church of Scotland we are greatly heartened and we rejoice in Her Majesty’s unwavering commitment and witness to the Christian faith, as well as affirming the secure place of other faiths in Britain today. "Her Majesty’s regular and engaged attendance and easy relationship with the Kirk in Scotland is a great source of encouragement and joy."
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He said the church thanked the Queen for all her years of 'devoted service.'
He added: "For the future, we pray God’s continuing blessing on Her Majesty, granting her, together with His Royal Highness Prince Philip, continuing health, strength and grace, as they continue to serve us all."
Reverent Professor Iain Torrance, Dean of the Chapel Royal, said he had had many conversations with the Queen and was struck by how she could give detailed accounts of "practically any event during her reign".
He added: "She really does have a sense of the ‘big picture’ that no one else can provide and eventually one realises with amusement, ‘How could anyone else?’
"I am also always aware of how she knows and loves this country of Scotland. She is genuinely and deeply interested in our country and our church. This is because it is her church too and her faith means an enormous amount to her."
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