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A very involved and complicated tour.
I have some details but not much. I know she flew from LHR to Mombasa via Gibraltar, Kano in BOAC Argonaut "Ajax" and departed Mombasa in Royal Yacht for Mauritius. She returned to Africa in Britannia and then toured Kenya and Tanganyika extensively before returning to UK from Entebbe.
I'm curious as to
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Not confusing it with her visit with Queen Mother to Rhodesia in July 1953? At the time she was very close to (in love?) with Group Captain Peter Townsend, an equerry to the Royal Household. This was widely speculated upon at the time, so much so that the archbishop of Canterbury and sundry others in the establishment arranged that Gp Capt Townsend was posted to Brussels as air attaché at very short notice, as a result when she and the QM returned to London, Townsend was gone.
My interest in this is that during her Rhodesia tour when I was stationed at 5 FTS RAF Thornhill I took tea with her and the QM (at a distance) when they visited Gwelo.
