LONDON - Queen Elizabeth II turns 95 years old on Wednesday, a joyous occasion that’s likely tainted by a heavy heart.The queen’s birthday falls just four days after she laid her husband Prince Philip to rest.
Heartbreaking images from the funeral showed Elizabeth sitting alone as her husband of 74 years was taken to the royal vault in St.
George’s Chapel.Now, the matriarch of the House of Windsor enters a new phase of her reign without the man who’d been by her side since she was just a princess.RELATED: Prince Philip funeral: Husband of Queen Elizabeth II laid to restEven so, it will begin with the comfort only her family could provide.