The Motherland

Showing my love for all things from The Motherland a/k/a Great Britain. Please check out my other blogs, too. Just click above where it says "My Other Tumblrs".

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Chapter House, Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire

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Donnington Castle, West Berkshire. Built 1386.

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Whitby Abbey, North Yorkshire

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lincoln cathedral, england

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The Gothic Cottage - Stourhead, Wiltshire

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Whitby Abbey in North Yorkshire,

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Oxford, Oxfordshire by Alixe Lay

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Taghazout, Morocco. photo by Carpe Lux Travel

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©Douglas Richardson

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It was February 1952 and Princess Elizabeth was enjoying a short break in Kenya with Prince Philip, her husband of five years. It was a brief respite from their royal duties.

They were standing in for George VI on a long-planned international tour that was to also take in Australia and New Zealand. The 56-year-old King, thousands of miles away at Sandringham, had been too ill to travel.

The pair were relaxing at a game-viewing lodge, at the now-famous Treetops Hotel just over 100 miles (165km) from Nairobi. Elizabeth had spent the day of 5 February taking cine films of elephants at a nearby watering hole before retiring with the Duke of Edinburgh to their cabin high up in the trees. They spent the night surrounded by wild animals.

And it was here on 6 February, that the princess became Queen, after George VI passed away in his sleep.

The British hunter Jim Corbett, who was also staying at Treetops at the time, later wrote the now famous lines in the visitors’ log book:

“For the first time in the history of the world, a young girl climbed into a tree one day a Princess and after having what she described as her most thrilling experience she climbed down from the tree next day a Queen.”

Queen Elizabeth II by Cecil Beaton 

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“The highest of distinctions is service to others." 

King George VI [14 December 1895 – 6 February 1952], pictured with Princess Elizabeth [future Queen Elizabeth II]

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Ruggers in kilts - Edinburgh rugby’s Brown twins

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Caerphilly Castle was mostly built between 1268 and 1271 as part of a bid to secure control over Glamorgan, Wales.