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Queen Elizabethenjoyed herself while attending the annual Royal Windsor Horse Show this week!
The Queen, 95, was all smiles as she looked on at the 77th annual show, said to be one of her favorite events of the year. While attending the event on Saturday she opted for a casual outfit, donning a navy quilted vest over a green cardigan and a grey skirt.
The Queen’s love of horses has been well documented and goes back to her childhood, when she was given her first horse, a Shetland pony, at the age of 4. She has attended the Royal Windsor Horse Show every year, though in 2020 the showheld virtuallydue to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Horseback riding was also one of the ways the Queen stayed busy throughout the pandemic. In May of 2020, the royal family shared new photos of the monarch riding a pony named Fern around Windsor Home Park and she waslast spotted in the saddle in Dec. 2020as she set out for a horse ride at Windsor Castle alongside her head groom, Terry Pendry.
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Two of the Queen’s great-grandchildren,Prince GeorgeandPrincess Charlotte, are also taking part in a longstanding royal family tradition of horseback riding. They have been honing their riding skills over the past year, PEOPLElearnedin March.
While attending an event to meet and honor British Olympians at Buckingham Palace in October 2016,Kate Middletonrevealed that Charlotte, then 1, had developed a love of horses — just like her great-grandmother.
Kate “emphasized that Charlotte has this passion about horses and although she doesn’t echo it, she’ll do her best to champion and encourage it,” Paralympic Equestrian Natasha Baker said at the time.
source: people.com
