Elizabeth II celebrates her 100th Birthday

The Royal Family today visited the Royal Vault at Saint George's Chapel Windsor to celebrate the hundredth birthday of Queen Elizabeth II with a special Birthday Cake.  Despite being technically declared dead four years ago, so good is the embalming process used in 2022 that the  former Monarch can be revived and reanimated for brief periods of time - long enough to enjoy a slice of Birthday Cake with Paddington Bear - before being cryogenically frozen again.  

"It's a marvel of modern science," said King Charles, "that Mama can be briefly reanimated like this.  She can even digest some minimal amounts of food without her coffin filling with excrement due to the wonderful enzymes they've developed.  The only problem is getting 100 candles on the cake is a bit of a squash so we had to settle for just a representative fourteen.  Unfortunately we don't have the technology to keep Mama revived all the time but we can manage to bring her back briefly for celebrations and important events due to advances in medical since and artificial intelligence.  It's very much like that Dennis Potter play Cold Lazarus but without the scary science fiction implications."

Apparently this is not the first time the Royal Family has experimented with the technology.  "We did try bringing back grandpa as well for his hundredth," said Prince William, "but he told us to fuck off and let him rest in peace."