Queen’s 96th birthday celebrated with release of new photograph
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Standing with two of her fell ponies, the Queen was photographed as the build-up begins for the Royal Windsor Horse Show, which commissioned the image.The Queen turns 96 on Thursday and has travelled from Windsor to her Sandringham estate to stay at a property loved by her late husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, for her birthday.The Queen has already received birthday wishes from prime minister Boris Johnson and Labour leader Keir Starmer, and gun salutes will be fired in her honour on Thursday.
On the Queen’s left is the pony Bybeck Nightingale and on her right is Bybeck Katie, and both animals will feature in A Gallop through History.Her love for the equine world is something she shared with her mother, and she has been breeding and racing horses for more than 60 years.
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