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Inside life-changing day Elizabeth found out she was now Queen of England
Elizabeth became Queen of England on February 6, 1952, after her father, King George VI passed away in the early hours of the morning.The then-Princess was on a Commonwealth tour in Kenya, alongside her husband, Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh.The royal couple had spent the previous night at the remote Treetops Hotel – accessible via a ladder – in Aberdare Forest, where they watched baboons in the jungle. The 25-year-old Princess climbed up to a look-out point at the top of the tree in order to see the dawn breaking.