{"id":128611,"date":"2026-02-10T10:43:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T10:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/128611\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T10:43:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T10:43:12","slug":"king-charles-meets-relative-of-late-queens-beloved-pony-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/128611\/","title":{"rendered":"King Charles meets relative of late Queen\u2019s beloved pony"},"content":{"rendered":"

King Charles encountered a relative of his late mother\u2019s beloved pony<\/a>, Emma, when he visited Lancashire on Monday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He toured Clitheroe Auction Mart on a non-market day, engaging with local farmers showcasing their rare breed sheep and cattle.<\/p>\n

The market is a cornerstone of the Ribble Valley and Forest of Bowland.<\/p>\n

It boasts a livestock trading history dating back to 1499, with its current site established in 1897.<\/p>\n

Charles unveiled a plaque in the auction ring to mark the visit.<\/p>\n

In the auction ring he met Fell pony Pearl, who is related on her sire\u2019s side to Emma, the black Fell pony who made an appearance at the late monarch\u2019s funeral<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Charles meets Fell pony Pearl during his visit to Clitheroe Auction Mart in Lancashire (PA Wire)<\/p>\n

Emma watched the funeral procession go by<\/a>, with the Queen\u2019s sheepskin saddle cover and the silk headscarf she wore when riding laid over her saddle.<\/p>\n

Pearl was bred by Rossendale farmers Andrew and Michelle Thorpe.<\/p>\n

They gave her as a wedding present to their nephew Ben, 39, when he married wife Eleanor, 32.<\/p>\n

Ben Thorpe said: \u201cShe is part of the family, like having a dog.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Emma,<\/p>\n

Emma, Queen Elizabeth\u2019s Fell pony, stands as the late monarch\u2019s funeral procession passes by (PA)<\/p>\n

Later, Charles visited Samlesbury Hall, near Preston<\/a>, becoming the first monarch to visit the 701-year-old medieval manor house.<\/p>\n

On arrival outside he was met by two shire horses pulling a dray for Daniel Thwaites<\/a>, a local family-run brewer, first established in 1807.<\/p>\n

The King spent a moment chatting to horsewoman Beverley Holland, along with colleagues Jonathan Jones and Richard Green, with the horses, Thunder, aged seven and Regal, nine, sporting polished brass harnesses.<\/p>\n

Inside Samlesbury Hall, he met the hall\u2019s archivist, trustees and volunteers, responsible for preserving the Grade-I listed building, founded in around 1325 by Gilbert de Southworth.<\/p>\n

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Charles is introduced to shire horses Thunder and Regal<\/p>\n

Saved from demolition in 1925, the hall is now open to the public for education, events and cultural activities.<\/p>\n

The medieval manor, parts of whose original timber frame survive in the Great Hall, has a chapel and extensions from the Tudor period and also has priest holes, reflecting the catholic faith of the Southworth family who owned the hall over 300 years.<\/p>\n

Jason Karl, a trustee and volunteer, showed the King several artefacts, including a large piece of oak timber dating back to 1325 that formed part of the hall\u2019s original structure.<\/p>\n

Mr Karl said: \u201cI think he was most interested in the Roman Catholic history of the house and the Southworth family.\u201d<\/p>\n

During the visit the King also spoke to Ishwer Tailor and his wife Urhila Tailor, from the Gujarat Hindu Society, based in Preston, which the King, then Prince Charles<\/a>, visited in 1981.<\/p>\n

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Charles speaks to cheese grader Bill Yates during his visit to Butlers Farmhouse Cheeses<\/p>\n

For his final visit of the day, the King sampled some cheese at a family business which had rebuilt after a devastating fire.<\/p>\n

The King met Gill Hall, the third-generation owner of Butlers Farmhouse Cheeses, on a visit to Lancaster in 2025, when she told him about the November 2023 fire which had destroyed 95 per cent of their stock.<\/p>\n

On Monday he officially opened the firm\u2019s new cheese campus in Inglewhite, near Preston.<\/p>\n

Mrs Hall, 65, said: \u201cHe understood the pain that we\u2019ve been through and the resilience that it\u2019s taken to get to this stage and, as I said to him at the end, he\u2019s given us a boost.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"King Charles encountered a relative of his late mother\u2019s beloved pony, Emma, when he visited Lancashire on Monday.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[55443,55442,55446,1428,55447,9,24,63,122,124,123,55444,55445,15852],"class_list":{"0":"post-128611","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-clitheroe-auction-mart","9":"tag-fell-pony","10":"tag-funeral-procession","11":"tag-king-charles","12":"tag-michelle-thorpe","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-queens","17":"tag-queens-headlines","18":"tag-queens-news","19":"tag-samlesbury-hall","20":"tag-shire-horses","21":"tag-the-king"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}