President Uhuru Kenyatta has declared four days of national mourning following the demise of Queen Elizabeth II.

Uhuru made the declaration on Friday on behalf of Kenya that he said will forever hold the Queen in a special place in the citizens’ hearts.

During that period that started on Friday, flags in Kenya will fly at half-mast.

"In honour of the life and times of the late Queen, and on behalf of a nation that will forever hold Queen Elizabeth II in a special place in our individual and collective hearts; I, Uhuru Kenyatta do hereby order and direct that Kenya will observe a period of national mourning from today until sunset on Monday, 12th September 2022," Uhuru ordered.

The outgoing president remembered the Queen as a close friend of the nation and lauded her as a great pillar of the Commonwealth under whose reign notable events such as the end of the Cold War, independence of many countries,and the fall of the Berlin wall were witnessed.

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Uhuru said Queen Elizabeth II was a constant and unshakable rock of dedication to duty.

"Her 70-year reign covered the pre-independence era, the granting of self-governance, the Cold War, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and all the other seminal events leading to the present day. In all that, as governments rose and fell, new nations were born, and the geopolitical sands shifted back and forth; Queen Elizabeth II remained our one constant and an unshakeable rock of dedication to duty, grace, sacrifice, public service, and the commitment to God, Country, and Family," Uhuru said.

Queen Elizabeth II passed away on Thursday after her immediate family members spent time at her side led by Prince Charles, her son and heir to the throne.

She ascended the throne in 1952 at the age of 25 and had the longest monarch reign in the history of Britain after surpassing the 62-year record held by her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria, in 2015.

Queen Elizabeth II became the queen of England on February 6, 1952, at the tender age of 25 when her father, King George VI, died while she was in the Aberdare Ranges in Kenya.