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Britain's Queen Elizabeth arrives at Newtongrange railway station, in Scotland, September 9, 2015. Queen Elizabeth officialy opened the new Scottish Borders Railway on the day she became Britain's longest reigning monarch. [PHOTO/REUTERS]
The petite girl who majestically climbed a giant Mugumo tree in Nyeri 63 years ago and descended the following day a Queen has made history.
Unlike in 1952, when everything, including the weather conspired against her as she drove out of Tree Tops Hotel to Nanyuki and flew to Uganda for an onward flight home to a grieving nation, yesterday, her public appearance in London was greeted with cheers.
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