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On the trail of a princess

As Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations reach fever pitch, we retrace her footprints where as a princess, she climbed a tree house and came down the next day as a queen, writes THORN MULLI

Way back in 1932, in the heart of the Aberdare Ranges, Lady Bettie and her husband Major Eric Sherbrooke Walker, a one time secretary to founder of the scout movement Lord Baden-Powell, built a private two-roomed tree house to provide a safe platform for viewing and shooting, with cameras of course, wildlife.

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