There are no plans yet to make a permanent bank holiday every year for the Queen - but Downing Street has not ruled it out in future.
Some 120,000 people had backed a change.org petition by this lunchtime calling for an annual day off in honour of the “the world’s greatest monarch”.
Petition founder John Harris wrote: “Britain has fewer bank holidays than most European countries; France has 11 compared with our 8, Spain has 14.