History Today: How Elizabeth unexpectedly became Queen on African soil
King George VI died in his sleep. It was a defining moment in the British monarchy. Princess Elizabeth, then 25, was in Kenya ...
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Queen Elizabeth II: She arrived in Kenya a princess but left a Queen
For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. From a distance, it looked like a big granary, elevated to the level of the tree line ...
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How the Queen learned her father had died – and that she had acceded to the throne
The death of her father meant the then-Princess Elizabeth became the Queen when she was 25 years old. As she was in Kenya at the time, Her Majesty became the first sovereign in over 200 years to ...
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Treetops: Inside Nyeri Hotel Where Queen Elizabeth II was in 1952
In 1952, amid the heightened agitation for independence against British colonial rule in Kenya, Queen Elizabeth, the then UK’s royal princess and her spouse visited Kenya for a vacation.
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Seven decades since she became queen, Elizabeth has soft spot for Kenya
Queen Elizabeth at Mitchell Park (Nairobi show) during her visit to Kenya, 1959. [File, Standard] Seventy years ago this week, Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip were in colonial Kenya ...