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Friday, September 9, 2022

Queen Elizabeth II

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-Shamahi

In 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. 

SS Gothic

Wikipedia has a page about the SS Gothic and its tour of duty as the royal yacht.

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