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Family wants King Charles to visit village where royals launched house 88 years ago

Belinda Shiraku showing their family house (Martha's guest house) which Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II officially opened on September 19 1956 at Mundeku on Khwisero on November 1, 2023. [Benjamin Sakwa, Standard]

A family from Buchero Mundeku, a village at Khwisero in Kakamega County, is excited about the Kenyan tour of King Charles lll and Queen Camilla.

It is the same village where King Charles's mother, the late Queen Elizabeth ll, sent her own sister Princess Margaret and other royals to launch arguably the first ever permanent house built in the Western region 88 years ago.

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