On the morning of February 6 1952, 25-year-old Princess Elizabeth woke early, having spent the night with her dashing husband Philip on a treetop platform at a Kenyan game lodge.
They were guarded by a white hunter who was concerned about the threat of leopard rather than paparazzi. Before breakfast she took some cine film of rhino. She was said to be blissfully happy.
It was hours before she found out she was no longer Princess Elizabeth. Communications with up-country Kenya were difficult in those days and, in any case, a cock-up was made with the code book at Government House, Nairobi.
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