When Her Majesty finally heard the news, arrangements were made for the couple’s immediate return home and she wrote letters to all those she was supposed to visit, apologising for cancelling the remainder of her tour.Īlthough she officially ascended the throne in February 1952, the Queen’s coronation did not take place until the summer of 1953. Because their location was so remote, news of the king’s death took some time to reach the royal party. The 56-year-old king had been too ill to travel.Īt the time of the king’s death, the pair were relaxing at a game-viewing lodge, the now famous Treetops Hotel, 100 miles from Nairobi. The couple were standing in for King George on a long-planned international tour that was also supposed to take them to Australia and New Zealand. On the day of her father’s death, Princess Elizabeth was less than a week into a trip to Kenya with Prince Philip, her husband of five years. On 6 February 1952, Her Majesty’s father, King George VI, died in his sleep at Sandringham and the young princess became Queen Elizabeth II, aged just 25. The nearest we have ever come to a monarch marking 70 years on the throne was Queen Victoria’s impressive 63 years. On Sunday 6 February 2022, Her Majesty The Queen became the first monarch in British history to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee. As we pay tribute to the remarkable life and reign of HM Queen Elizabeth II, we look back at the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee
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