![]() ( Robert Menzies, Aus, Sidney Holland, NZ, Louis St. She and Prince Philip were en route to a Commonwealth tour of Australia and New Zealand but of course immediately returned to the United Kingdom to be greeted by her first Prime Minister, Winston Churchill. Ironically Princess Elizabeth who spent the night in a tree house observing Kenyan wildlife was probably one of the last people to learn of her father's death. I wonder how many people here remember where they were on 6th February 1952? There are dates and events which are imprinted on the mind and many of those who were alive at the time will remember where they were when they heard of the death of King George vi. "In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lofty and the hem of his robe filled the temple".
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