On February 6, 1952, a young Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip were enjoying a trip to Kenya, standing in for George VI on a long-planned international tour that was to also take in Australia and New Zealand, and two days in the country’s oldest safari lodge, the Treetops Hotel.
It was a hideaway built in a giant fig tree. She was enjoying life as a young married royal with her handsome prince, and it was here where she filmed charging rhinos and waterbuck with her beloved cine-camera.
