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Al Jumhuriya Hospital. Reuters

Yemen councillor Sayyid Abubakr bin Shaikh Alkaff kneels before Queen Elizabeth II to be knighted in Aden on April 29, 1954. AFP

Kulthoom Muhammad Saeed, 80, shows her birth certificate as she talks to Reuters at her home about memories of the Queen Elizabeth's visit to Aden in 1954 during the period that Aden was a colony within the British Empire, in Aden,Yemen September 11, 2022. REUTERS / Fawaz Salman

Big Ben Aden, a clock tower built beside the harbour while the area it was part of the British Empire. Reuters

The Crescent Hotel, one of the landmarks of Aden built during British rule. Reuters

A bronze plaque marking the laying of foundation stone by Queen Elizabeth for Al Jumhuriya Hospital, formerly known as Queen Elizabeth Hospital, in Aden. Reuters

A statue of British monarch Queen Victoria in Victoria Park in Aden. Reuters

Al Jumhuriya Hospital. Reuters

Yemen councillor Sayyid Abubakr bin Shaikh Alkaff kneels before Queen Elizabeth II to be knighted in Aden on April 29, 1954. AFP

Kulthoom Muhammad Saeed, 80, shows her birth certificate as she talks to Reuters at her home about memories of the Queen Elizabeth's visit to Aden in 1954 during the period that Aden was a colony within the British Empire, in Aden,Yemen September 11, 2022. REUTERS / Fawaz Salman

Big Ben Aden, a clock tower built beside the harbour while the area it was part of the British Empire. Reuters

The Crescent Hotel, one of the landmarks of Aden built during British rule. Reuters

A bronze plaque marking the laying of foundation stone by Queen Elizabeth for Al Jumhuriya Hospital, formerly known as Queen Elizabeth Hospital, in Aden. Reuters

A statue of British monarch Queen Victoria in Victoria Park in Aden. Reuters

Al Jumhuriya Hospital. Reuters

‘Queen Elizabeth's rule made us content’: how Yemen remembers the monarch

The British Empire represented a brief period of stability for some Yemenis before decades of civil war

Reuters

September 15, 2022

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