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Stephen Lawson, who now lives in Jersey, was a 10-year-old schoolboy in Kenya when he and his class welcomed the visiting Princess Elizabeth and her husband the Duke of Edinburgh 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.
The then-Princess Elizabeth was lodging at the now-closed Treetops Hotel in a rural part of Kenya, surrounded by greenery, tall trees and wildlife, when her father, King George VI, died and she ...
Queen Elizabeth (then Princess Elizabeth) the eldest daughter of King George VI, used the vintage Rover when she and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh visited Kenya while on a tour of ...
Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip were on a tour of Kenya when they received the tragic news that the Princess's father, King George VI had died after a long battle with illness. King George is ...