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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Laura Elston

How Elizabeth became Queen watching baboons at sunrise from Kenyan treetops

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Princess Elizabeth was watching baboons while taking photographs of the Kenyan sunrise from a hotel set in the branches of a giant fig tree when she became Queen.

It was February 6 1952 and the 25-year-old princess and her husband the Duke of Edinburgh were in the African country on a Commonwealth tour.

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