Queen Elizabeth II: Over the Years
Britain's longest-serving monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, died Thursday at the age of 96. VOA Africa shares some sightings of the late queen in Africa throughout the years.
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Queen Elizabeth II, then Princess Elizabeth, poses for her 21st birthday release picture, during a three day rest in the Natal National Park in South Africa on April 11, 1947. (AP Photo)
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Specially posed portrait of HRH Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II, before the microphone for her 21st Birthday speech, April 21, 1947, which she made from Cape Town, South Africa. (AP Photo)
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Princess Elizabeth poses with her father, King George VI, her mother Queen Elizabeth and her sister Princess Magaret in February 1947 in Cape Town during her first official state visit to South Africa.
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Queen Elizabeth II receives from Oba Adeniji Adele II a message in Lagos during her trip in Nigeria in 1956. (Photo by INTERCONTINENTALE / AFP)