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Queen Elizabeth alone at Trooping the Color: a party in half
There Queen there is. After days of doubts and guesses, Elizabeth II it was presented for the final day of the Royal Ascot, a historic horse race that has never failed. The sovereign kept waiting for days, fueling rumors and uncertainties about the alleged reasons that would have led her to give up the event in attendance.
From the first day of Royal Ascot, everything has been said and the opposite of everything. There was talk of a very specific choice of the Queen and linked to the recent mourning for the loss of Prince Philip, but also of the many commitments that would have kept her tied to Windsor and, therefore, unable to participate. The presence of the Royals at the opening ceremony of the event is a tradition, entrusted to Prince Charles and his wife in 2021 Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall.
Despite the many institutional commitments, the Queen did not miss a day. Her passion for horses in fact it has always been known and never in her long reign had she deserted Royal Ascot, except when she was expecting her children. This decision of his, later denied by the surprise arrival for the final day, had caused rumors to run, which indulged in the search for the reasons behind theabsence of the Queen.
Elizabeth II participated in his first Royal Ascot in 1946 and has not lost a single edition of the race since she took the throne. She was in the winners enclosure 24 times between 1953 and 2019 and made sporting history in 2013 when she became the first reigning monarch to win the Gold Cup.
It has been a busy few days for the Queen, who decided to follow the ride from Windsor Castle. The Sovereign was al G7 in Cornwall, as well as Trooping The Color where she first showed up on her own after the disappearance of Duke of Edinburgh. Elizabeth also received the President of the United States and First Lady, Joe and Jill Biden, as well as having a meeting with the Australian Prime Minister. Scott Morrison.
The Horse Manager John Warren however, he had given solid hope that the Queen would show up at Royal Ascot, at least for the final day.
“The plan at the moment is to see how it goes towards the latter part of the week and if the queen can come because she has runners.”
On Tuesday, in fact, his horse Kings Lynn competed in the King’s Stand Stakes. To open the competition on June 15, it was the Prince Edward and his wife Sophie, Countess of Wessex, with Princess Anne, Mike and Zara Tindall, on her first outing after giving birth.
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