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How sweaty armpit saved Queen Elizabeth II and husband from an elephant

Queen Elizabeth II visit to Kenya in Feb 1959. [File]

Most Kenyans may not fathom that Queen Elizabeth II of the UK, who died Thursday might not have ascended to the throne because of certain elephants in Kenya, then a British colony.

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