Princess Elizabeth riding her pony in Windsor Great Park Windsor, aged about eightIt was during a lunch at Buckingham Palace that the children’s author Sir Michael Morpurgo sat next to the Queen and they talked — and talked — about horses. Her lifelong passion for them, she explained, began as a child when she stroked the neck of a pony, which felt like “warm velvet”. SponsoredThe Queen’s words feature in a new book by the former children’s laureate, There Once is a Queen. The Queen’s words feature in a new book by the former children’s laureateDuring their lunch in 2016, Morpurgo asked the Queen what had sparked her love for horses. He said: “She mentioned that she’d been riding ponies

Source: The Times April 24, 2022 18:35 UTC