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| Sayyid Abubakr bin Shaikh Al-Kaff kneels before Queen Elizabeth II to be knighted during the sovereign's visit to Aden, on April 29, 1954 [File: AFP] |
Queen Elizabeth II’s last foothold in Arabia by Abubakr Al-ShamahiIn April 1954, just less than a year after her royal coronation, Queen Elizabeth II stepped off the SS Gothic into the only Arab territory to ever become a colony of the British Empire, Aden.
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| SS Gothic |
Wikipedia has a page about the SS Gothic and its tour of duty as the royal yacht.
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