White Highlands and the Mau Mau With the Rucks, Leakeys, and Kikuyu Freedom Fighters, 1952-1961

She arrived in Kenya as a princess and left as a queen.In February 1952, Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary traveled to colonial Kenya with her husband, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. While staying at Treetops in the Aberdare Range, she received news that her father, King George VI, had died at Sandringham on 6 February 1952. Elizabeth was proclaimed Queen while still in the colony, marking a hi...