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Queen Elizabeth II funeral live updates: World watches Britain lay its longest-reigning monarch to rest
The story of the day and hour of Elizabeth’s accession to the throne has been advised many occasions, but it surely stays a charming story. It’s historical past with echoes of Arthurian romance.
On the morning of her father’s loss of life, 25-year-old Elizabeth was perched in a treehouse in Kenya, from which she’d watched a herd of elephants led by matriarchs come to a watering gap.
Too ailing to journey, her father, King George VI, had tasked Elizabeth and her husband, Philip, with enterprise a months-long tour of the Commonwealth, in what was then the twilight of the British Empire.