Elizabeth was in Kenya at Treetops Hotel when her father, George VI, died on 6 February 1952 and she became queen. She had arrived in Nairobi on 1 February and had been staying at Sagana Lodge, near Mount Kenya. After the news of her accession, she returned immediately to the United Kingdom via Entebbe Airport.
Sep 8, 2022 · It had been “a perfectly happy day,” one newspaper later wrote of Feb. 5, 1952. King George VI, who had been ill, was feeling well enough to ...
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Feb 6, 2012 · Princess Elizabeth was enjoying a brief break from her royal duties in Kenya when she learnt that her father, George VI, had suddenly died, ...
Sep 9, 2022 · Kenya. The Treetops Hotel in Kenya's Aberdare National Park, 17 kilometers from Nyeri town center. The structure built around an old tree in a ...
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Sep 8, 2022 · It was dusk on February 7 1952 and the new Queen had flown back to Britain from Kenya, 4,000 miles away, where news of George VI's death had ...
Sep 12, 2022 · Just two years after her visit, the Mau Mau, Kenyan freedom fighters opposed to British colonial rule, burned the lodge down. It was rebuilt in ...
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Sep 12, 2022 · A man who recalls when Queen Elizabeth II visited Kenya in 1952 has described her as "an inspiration". Stephen Lawson, who now lives in ...
Feb 6, 2017 · On 6 February 1952, King George VI died peacefully in his sleep. At the time Princess Elizabeth was in Kenya, unaware that she was now ...