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.