Elizabeth Mills, of Victoria Road, Dartmouth, writes:

As a resident of Dartmouth, home of the Royal Regatta and the Britannia Royal Naval College, where the young Princess Elizabeth met her future husband, I am at a loss to understand why the beacon was not lit for her 90th birthday on April 21.

As the rest of the country ­celebrated this special day for Her Majesty the Queen, Dartmouth sat of its hands.

Both Totnes and Newton Abbot lit their beacons, and it has to be said they do not enjoy such a close relationship with the royal family as we do here in Dartmouth.

Only last week we welcomed Her Royal Highness Princess Anne to a passing-out parade, where she was representing her father, His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, Lord High Admiral of the Royal Navy. Princes Charles, Andrew, and briefly William, all studied there.

A terrible oversight on the part of the town council and one about which a lot of people in Dartmouth feel very strongly indeed.

I have been told that it is to be lit for her official birthday on Saturday, June 11, 2016, the date of the Queen’s birthday parade.

This date has very little ­relevance to her birth and more to do with the fact there is a high probability that there will be good weather for staging an outdoor parade.