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Safari lodge with royal link forced to close

Kenya’s oldest safari lodge, where the Queen ‘‘went up a tree a princess and came down a queen’’, has been forced to close after nearly 90 years of welcoming royalty and stars. It was during her two-day safari to Treetops, a hideaway perched in a giant fig tree, in 1952 that the Queen succeeded George VI who had died in his sleep. On the afternoon before she had been given the news, Princess Elizabeth, then 25, spent the afternoon with her cinecamera capturing charging rhinos and fighting waterbucks. The momentous visit to Treetops by the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh, as they were then known, made it the world’s most famous treehouse and inspired the rich and famous to climb its 10m rickety ladder for the view of the distant Mt Kenya and the animals below. Treetops is one of three historic hotels in central Kenya’s lush Nyeri county that have been forced to close their doors because of the pandemic.

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