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    The 1954 royal tour

    May 05, 2022 1 minute
    CHRISSIE GOLDRICK

    RINCESS ELIZABETH WAS en route to Australia, via Kenya, when she received news in February 1952 of the premature death of her father, 56-year-old King George VI. She hastily abandoned her trip but visited Australia two years later as the

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