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95-years young! Winnie the Pooh celebrates a special birthday with a very royal friend

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Winnie-the-Pooh celebrates his 95th birthday this year with a visit to Queen Elizabeth II, with whom he shares a birth year. (PHOTO: Disney)
Winnie-the-Pooh celebrates his 95th birthday this year with a visit to Queen Elizabeth II, with whom he shares a birth year. (PHOTO: Disney)

He's just six months younger than Queen Elizabeth yet he doesn’t look a day older than he did when the world first fell in love with him – proof that a lifestyle including pots of honey and plenty of feel-good fun with your friends works.

Winnie-the-Pooh, the beloved bear in AA Milne’s famous books, is celebrating his 95th birthday this month. And to commemorate a milestone year, Pooh and his trusty sidekicks – Tigger, Piglet, Eeyore and Christopher Robin – went to visit the queen, bearing gifts of honey and a bunch of 95 balloons.

It was an animated visit in the truest sense of the word: an illustrated celebration of the lives of two of the most famous nonagenarians in history.

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