UK Holiday On April 21 2025?

The following calendar contains bank holidays, as declared in the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971, notable days and other obervances in the United Kindom during Monday, 2025-04-21. In addition, as declared in this Act, please note that:

1. The days specified in this schedule may apply to England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland or all of them.
2. If it appears to Her Majesty that, in the special circumstances of any year, it is inexpedient that a day specified in this calendar should be a bank holiday, Her Majesty may by proclamation declare that that day shall not in that year be a bank holiday and appoint another day in place of it.
3. Her Majesty may from time to time by proclamation appoint a special day to be, either throughout the United Kingdom or in any place or locality in the United Kingdom, a bank holiday.
4. No person shall be compellable to make any payment or to do any act on a bank holiday under this Act which he would not be compellable to make or do on Christmas Day or Good Friday; and where a person would, apart from this subsection, be compellable to make any payment or to do any act on a bank holiday under this Act, his obligation to make the payment or to do the act shall be deemed to be complied with if he makes or does it on the next following day on which he is compellable to make or do it.

• Easter Monday:

  ^{[1] [2] [4]} Easter Monday is the day following Easter Sunday and is celebrated as a holiday in some largely Christian cultures, especially Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox cultures. Easter Monday in the Roman Catholic liturgical calendar is the second day of the octave of Easter Week and analogously in the Eastern Orthodox Church is the second day of Bright Week.

• Queen Elizabeth's Birthday:

  ^[5] Elizabeth Alexandra Mary was born in London on 1926-04-21. Her father ascended to the throne as George VI in 1936 after the abdication of his brother Edward VIII. She began conducting public functions during the Second World War. When her father died in 1952, she became head of the Commonwealth of Nations and queen of seven independent countries: United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Pakistan and Ceylon. The celebration of his coronation in 1953 was the first to be televised.

Notes:

^[1] Bank holiday in England.

^[2] Bank holiday in Wales.

^[4] Bank holiday in Northern Ireland.

^[5] Not a bank holiday, but a notable day.