Before Elizabeth could make it to Lake Victoria, word came that her father, King George VI, had died.
More than 70 years later, Elizabeth's son, King Charles, will visit Kenya this week on a state visit.
Buckingham Palace has said Charles' visit, which begins on Tuesday, will acknowledge "painful aspects of the UK and Kenya's shared history".
The colonial administration took hundreds of square kilometres of land that communities in western Kenya had lived on for generations and handed it to British settlers.
The British government has not been receptive in the past to requests by the Kipsigis and Talai to discuss compensation.
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