<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_II" id="mwvg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Elizabeth II">Elizabeth II</a> becomes <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_of_the_United_Kingdom" id="mwvw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Queen of the United Kingdom">Queen of the United Kingdom</a> and her other Realms and Territories and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_of_the_Commonwealth" id="mwwA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Head of the Commonwealth">Head of the Commonwealth</a> upon the death of her father, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_VI" id="mwwQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="George VI">George VI</a>. At the exact moment of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_succession" id="mwwg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Order of succession">succession</a>, she was in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_house" id="mwww" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Tree house">tree house</a> at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treetops_Hotel" id="mwxA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Treetops Hotel">Treetops Hotel</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenya" id="mwxQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Kenya">Kenya</a>.<sup about="#mwt83" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-14"}}' id="cite_ref-14" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./February_6#cite_note-14" id="mwxg" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 14;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwxw">[14]</span></a></sup>
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