Tuesday, February 6, 2024

Elizabeth II became Queen of The United Kingdom

 

On 6 February 1952, Elizabeth II became Queen of the United Kingdom and her other Realms and Territories and Head of the Commonwealth upon the death of her father, George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a tree house at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya.

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