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, the Queen Mother accompanied by the guard commander Major R. Aikenhead, inspects a guard of honor of the Second Battalion the Kings African rifles at the great Indaba in the Matotos Hills, near then Bullawayo, Rhodesia on July 8, 1957.
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Queen Elizabeth II and President of Ghana Kwame Nkrumah wave to the crowd as part of a state visit in Ghana on November 1961. (Photo by AFP)
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Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip were greeted by Liberian President William Tubman and his wife Antoinette Padmore Tubman, on their arrival in the capital city of Monrovia for a one-day visit, Nov. 23, 1961. The British monarch, who had just completed an extensive state tour of Ghana, headed for Freetown, Sierra Leone, on her West Africa trip. (AP Photo)
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Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, centre, looks on as local women draw water in a market place at Jowara, Gambia, on Dec. 5, 1961. Queen Elizabeth is on a three-day visit to Gambia, Britain's oldest African colony. It was the last port of call in the Royal tour of West Africa. (AP Photo/Leslie Priest)