90 years young and still going strong – it’s amazing what never working a day in your life can do for your health.

Queen Elizabeth II celebrates a landmark birthday today, and despite a life lived in the public eye there are still a few things you might not know about Britain’s longest-reigning monarch.

These facts below from TIME:

She created a new dog breed—the “dorgi”—when Princess Margaret’s dachshund Pipkin mated with one of her corgis, according to the British Royal Family’s website: “There have been 8 dorgis—Tinker, Pickles, Chipper, Piper, Harris, Brandy, Cider and Berry.”

Some of the most unusual gifts she has received during her reign include: two live tortoises and a 7-year-old bull elephant named “Jumbo.”

In 1982, an intruder scaled Buckingham Palace and entered her bedroom. They had a 10-minute conversation before she called up security. Initially charged with burglary for drinking a bottle of Prince Charles’s wine, he was acquitted by a London jury.

A “gin and Dubonnet” has been her cocktail of choice, former personal chefs to the Queen told The Telegraph

She loves watching Downton Abbey and revels in spotting historical errors on the show on occasion, biographer Brian Hoey, who wrote At Home With The Queen, told People.

There is a practical reason for her monochromatic outfits. “You have to be able to see that figure in a lemon coat and hat from far away,” Hugo Vickers, author of Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, told the New York Times.

Happy birthday Queeny, it’s a tough life but someone has to live it.

You can see the rest of TIME’s facts HERE.

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