> > Just to clear this up, you mean the official holiday for the Queen's real birthday, right? She doesn't have an official birthday in NZ that's different from the British one?
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> Could you explain why there are official and unofficial birthdays?
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The Queen's Birthday holiday is on the first Monday in June. This is the official holiday and I had no idea at all what date her *real* birthday was until you said so.

There are official and unofficial birthdays for a pretty obvious reason once you think of it. Kings and queens come and go and they all have different birthdays. So it's easier to pick a day and keep it rather than change the holiday every time you change monarchs. Nobody celebrates or even notices the current monarch's *actual* birthday.

Brunnen-"and that's the day New Zealand picked for it"G