President Uhuru Kenyatta has joined other world leaders in mourning Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II who passed away on Thursday evening, at her Balmoral Castle aged 96.
In Uhuru’s message of condolence and comfort to His Majesty King Charles III, the Royal Family, Prime Minister Liz Truss, and the British people, he eulogized the longest-serving monarch who lived here 96 years uniquely. Uhuru described her Majesty as a towering global icon of selfless service to humanity.
“Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II was a towering icon of selfless service to humanity and a key figurehead of not only the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth of Nations where Kenya is a distinguished member but the entire world,” President Kenyatta mourned.
The President said he received the sad news of the passing on of Queen Elizabeth II with great sorrow and a deep sense of loss saying the People and the Government of the Republic of Kenya stand in solidarity with the Royal Family, the United Kingdom, and the world in mourning the departed monarch.
The Head of State recalled Kenya’s close ties with Queen Elizabeth II noting that the longest-serving monarch in British history took over from her father, King George VI, who died while she was on safari in Kenya.
It was during a walk on the grounds on the royal couple’s return to Sagana Lodge from the Treetops Hotel in Nyeri County, that her husband Prince Philip would break the news to Elizabeth that her father, King George VI, had died during the night and that she had acceded to the throne.
Queen Elizabeth II, ascended to the throne and became Queen in 1952 aged 25 years. She celebrated her platinum jubilee this year to mark 70 years of her reign.
Queen Elizabeth II’s tenure as head of state lived through post-war severity, the transformation from empire to Commonwealth, the end of the Cold War, and the UK’s joining and exiting from the European Union.
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The Queen’s reign spanned 15 prime ministers starting with Winston Churchill, born in 1874, including Liz Truss, born 101 years later in 1975, and appointed by the Queen earlier this week.
