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Britain's Elizabeth Marks 50 Years as Queen VOA News 6 Feb 2002 08:29 UTC 
Queen Elizabeth marks the 50th anniversary of her accession to the British throne Wednesday with a visit to a new cancer hospital.
Her visit to the MacMillan Center in eastern England is a poignant reminder of her father's death 50 years ago today - in 1952, after months of treatment for cancer.
News of King George VI death and her immediate accession to the throne reached the 25-year-old Elizabeth in Kenya, where she and her husband were on an official visit.
She was crowned Queen Elizabeth II at London's Westminster Abbey on June 2, 1953.
Some information for this report provided by AFP and Reuters.
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