was 'thunderstruck' on her flight back to after learning her father King had died while she was in Kenya, the son of a royal flight attendant has revealed.The then Princess Elizabeth was 'the happiest woman in the world' when she and Prince Philip boarded the British Overseas Airways Corporation flight for Nairobi on January 31, 1952, air steward Ken Clarke recalled. But just a week later, on February 7, she landed back in London the new Queen. King George VI died in Sandringham on February 6.
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