The New Queen Comes Home Princess Elizabeth who left England last week with the Duke of Edinburugh for their Commonwealth Tour , returned to England as Queen Elizabeth The Second . The royal couple cut their tour short and returned from Kenya to Lonodon Airport because of the Kings Death Waiting to greet the new Queen at Lonodn Airport this Afternoon were right to left , Mr Winston Churchill ( Premier ) Mr Clement Attlee ( leader of the opposition ) , Mr Anthony Eden ( Foreign Minister ) and Lord Woolton ( Lord President of the Council ) 7th February 1952