Queen Elizabeth, 92, has travelled extensively during her 66-year-reign.
However, before she took the throne, she undertook a foreign tour on behalf of her father, King George VI, who was too ill to travel.
Joined by her husband Prince Philip, the pair were in one particular country on 6 February in 1952 when the news broke of the death of her father.
Despite entering the country as a princess, Elizabeth then returned to the UK as the Queen of England.
The Queen was in Kenya when the death of her father happened, at the age of 25.
She was conducting a tour of Australia, New Zealand and Kenya, and was staying at Treetops, a famous lodge which was one of a kind at the time.
It allowed guests to be in the middle of an elephant waterhole, allowing wildlife to be seen up close.
Elizabeth was a keen video maker at the time and took videos of the animals and the sunrise at the time.
Unbeknownst to her, her father had died while she was in the Treetop hotel.
It was after returning to Sagana Lodge in Nairobi that day that she was made aware of the news by Prince Philip.
Jim Corbett, a British conservationist who was with the royal couple at the time, wrote after the visit: “I do not think that any two young people have ever spent such happy and carefree hours as Princess Elizabeth and Duke Philip spent at Treetops.”
He was also famous for writing in the Treetops guest book: “For the first time in the history of the world, a young girl climbed into a tree one day a Princess, and after having what she described as her most thrilling experience, she climbed down from the tree the next day a Queen—God bless her.”
The Queen returned to Kenya on a number of occasions, attending an official state visit in 1983 as a guest of President Daniel Arap Moi, where she returned to the Treetops hotel.
She also visited the Commonwealth country in 1972 and 1991.
Other members of the Royal Family have a close connection with Africa.
Princess Diana visited several countries in Africa, famously walking through Angola to clear landmines while campaigning against them.
Prince Harry has previously spoken out how Africa feels like home to him, after first visiting in 1997 after the death of his mother.
He said Africa is “where I feel more like myself than anywhere else in the world”.
He has since returned on a number of occasions, including during his gap year and earlier this year to Botswana on a private work trip.
Prince William often travels to the country while fighting against the illegal trade of ivory, and will return their later this year on an official state visit.
