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What really happened the moment Her Majesty found out she was Queen, by those who were there

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As King Charles III steps into his new role over the coming days, he will be thinking daily of his mother and the astonishing way she fulfilled her duty over many decades.

But his circumstances could not be more different to hers, with the Queen just 25 years old when her beloved father, King George VI, died after a battle with lung cancer.

At the time, the Queen was in Kenya on a Commonwealth tour, but her exact reaction upon hearing of her father's death has since been revealed by Prince Philip's cousin Lady Pamela Hicks, who witnessed it.

Lady Hicks was a very close friend from childhood and was a Lady in Waiting and travelled with the then Princess Elizabeth, whom she affectionately called 'Lillibet'.

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