{"id":408973,"date":"2026-04-20T22:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T22:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/408973\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T22:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T22:32:10","slug":"all-the-queens-horses-chronicling-her-majestys-life-in-13-of-her-favourite-steeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/408973\/","title":{"rendered":"All the Queen\u2019s horses! Chronicling Her Majesty’s life in 13 of her favourite steeds"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Queen Elizabeth II at Rye in Sussex, with racehorse Augustine, which used to belong to her, 1966<\/p>\n

Fox Photos\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Another of the Queen\u2019s horses was Columbus, sired by Sir Winston Churchill\u2019s stallion, Colonist. The Princess Royal reportedly first evented Columbus but found him too much of a handful, so she passed him on to her first husband, Captain Mark Phillips, who went on to win Badminton with him in 1974.<\/p>\n

Then there was Aureole, bred by the Queen\u2019s father, George VI \u2013 the first horse the Queen inherited from her father. The horse went on to win seven races, including the Coronation Cup and the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Royal Ascot<\/a>, and came second in the Derby.<\/p>\n

Mr Pendry wrote that the list of 13 \u2018only scratches the surface\u2019 of all the horses the Queen treasured. He wrote: \u2018She names all of her horses and ponies herself and can remember the parentage of every single one.\u2019<\/p>\n

On the anniversary of Her Majesty\u2019s birth, Tatler re-discovers the Queen\u2019s horses that lit up her world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queen Elizabeth II at Rye in Sussex, with racehorse Augustine, which used to belong to her, 1966 Fox…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,179756,11647,4827,80,14109],"class_list":{"0":"post-408973","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-paywall-sample-for-0-days","11":"tag-queen-elizabeth-ii","12":"tag-royals","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-the-queen"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}