Queen Elizabeth II recognized the Bicentennial by gifting the United States a bell forged at the same foundry as the Liberty Bell, and famously declaring in a speech in Philadelphia that Britain “lost the American colonies because we lacked that statesmanship to know the right time,

Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh, kicked off a two-day visit to Philadelphia Wednesday at the Benjamin Rush Garden in Independence National Historic Park to celebrate the Bicentennial Bell .

Prince Edward has given a nod to his late mother Queen Elizabeth II in his recent visit to the United States.The Duke of Edinburgh arrived for his two-day trip to the US in Newark, New Jersey on Tuesday,