GLOBAL ROUNDUP
Jan 31, 2022
3 minutes
1 Kenya
Seventy years ago this week, Princess Elizabeth, then 25, stayed a night in the Treetops Hotel in Aberdare National Park, Kenya. That night, February 6, 1952, her father King George VI died. As Jim Corbett, accompanying HRH, noted in the luxury hotel’s guest book: “A young girl climbed into a tree one day a Princess and climbed down the next day a Queen.” The hotel was burned down in 1954, rebuilt in 1957 but closed
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