It had been “a perfectly happy day,” one newspaper later wrote of Feb. 5, 1952. King George VI, who had been ill, was feeling well enough to go hare hunting at his Sandringham estate.

King Charles III’s coronation was still a whopping 70 years away when he watched, as an adorably bored prince, his mother Queen Elizabeth II formally ... seen getting off her plane looking ...

Interestingly, nobody in Kenya new that the King had died and Elizabeth was Queen. Death of a King ... luggage followed in another car. Her plane took off from Nanyuki air strip at exactly 6. ...

Queen Elizabeth II’s royal rider when flying commercial ... to let the queen continue sleeping even if the plane was coming in to land, and that the queen also liked following the route map ...

A man who recalls when Queen Elizabeth II visited Kenya in 1952 has described her ... bussed up to the airport to await the arrival of the plane carrying the princess and prince and we all lined ...

The longest-ever reign of Queen Elizabeth II, the only monarch most of her subjects ... then her father died in his sleep while she was on holiday in Kenya. She flew home a queen, somber but ...