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

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 .