How Elizabeth became Queen watching baboons at sunrise from Kenyan treetops
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Touching moment King Charles reminisces over photograph of Treetops - the iconic Kenyan hideaway where his late mother went up a princess and came down a Queen
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How Elizabeth became Queen watching baboons at sunrise from Kenyan treetops
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