Gun salutes were fired today in London to celebrate King Charles’s first birthday since his Coronation.

At 12 o’clock the King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery fired a 41-gun salute from Green Park.

At 13:00, the Honourable Artillery Company fired another 62-gun salutes from the Tower of London.

The King turns 75 today and members of the Royal Family have sent him well wishes on social media, including the Prince and Princess of Wales and Sarah Ferguson.

Today marks Charles’s first birthday since being crowned at Westminster Abbey on May 6.

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The Army always marks the birthday of the monarch with a gun salute, as they hold the title of Commander-in-Chief.

Charles himself was a military man, having served between 1971 and 1976 with both the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force.

The monarch kickstarted his birthday celebrations yesterday by visiting a special tea party at Highgrove Gardens.

Today will be a working day for the monarch, who, along with his wife Queen Camilla launched the Coronation Food Project at the South Oxfordshire Food and Education Alliance in Didcot, Oxfordshire.

The royal pair met staff and volunteers and heard about the ways in which food waste can be used for social good.

Charles will laer host a Buckingham Palace reception to honour the work of nurses and midwives over the decades as part of the NHS 75 year celebrations.