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 appeared at the dedication ceremony for the Bicentennial Bell at the Benjamin Rush Garden in Old City.