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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Jennifer Newton

Prince Philip's devastating reply when he was told his wife had become Queen

It's exactly 70 years to the day that Princess Elizabeth became our Queen.

On February 6, 1952, her father George VI died aged 56 and the then 25-year-old Elizabeth ascended to the throne.

The Queen was in Kenya with her husband Prince Philip, at the beginning of a huge royal tour of the Commonwealth. Technology at the time meant it took a long while for the sad news of the King's death to reach the royal party.

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