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April already has Easter most years. My nomination for another Bank Holiday is Trafalgar Day in October. We need something to break the monotony between August and Christmas.

@Bakero satire is indeed dead.

Trooping the Colour is the official celebration of the monarch's birthday. Edward VII changed the actual date to the second Saturday in June because his birthday was in November (like the present king) and it was cold and miserable, also when George V reigned it clashed with Armistice Day. So...

He was king of East Anglia. Buried in Bury St Edmunds, would you believe?

And my son in law’s.

Happy birthday William Shakespeare

20th November. At least, we wouldn’t have to share him with Georgia, Bosnia, Russia, Montenegro, Portugal or Brazil.