People News Roundup: Former U.S. Vice President Walter Mondale dies at 93; Queen Elizabeth marks 95th birthday and more


Devdiscourse News Desk | Updated: 21-04-2021 10:55 IST | Created: 21-04-2021 10:31 IST
People News Roundup: Former U.S. Vice President Walter Mondale dies at 93; Queen Elizabeth marks 95th birthday and more
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Queen Elizabeth marks 95th birthday, days after husband's funeral

Britain's Queen Elizabeth, the world's oldest monarch, turns 95 on Wednesday, but there will be no public celebrations of an occasion that comes just days after she bade a sad farewell to her husband of seven decades at his funeral. Prince Philip, whom Elizabeth married in 1947, died on April 9 at the age of 99. The royals paid their final respects to the family's patriarch at his funeral on Saturday at Windsor Castle.

Former U.S. Vice President Walter Mondale dies at 93

Walter Mondale, a leading liberal Democratic voice of the late 20th century who was U.S. vice president under Jimmy Carter and lost in a landslide to Ronald Reagan in the 1984 presidential election, died on Monday at age 93, his family said. "Well, my time has come. I am eager to rejoin Joan and Eleanor," Mondale said in a statement to his staff and released to the public after his death, referring to his late wife Joan, who died in 2014, and daughter Eleanor, who died in 2011 at age 51. "Before I go I wanted to let you know how much you mean to me."

(With inputs from agencies.)

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