Nine months after being advised against continuing owing to health issues, the Queen has started riding horses once more.After the monarch complained of "discomfort" in October, doctors advised her to forgo the sport.
Mobility problems prevented the 96-year-old from attending a number of events months before Her Majesty's Platinum Jubilee festivities, which is when the news broke.
But according to the Sun, the Queen now feels strong enough to get back in the saddle.
The prince has reportedly been taking "gentle outings" on horses around Windsor Castle.
During her "ban," she had been riding a golf partner instead of a horse around the estate.
The Queen had missed her riding during the past nine months, a Windsor Castle source informed the Sun.
She had been able to drive her golf buggy quickly through the quadrangle of the castle to walk her corgis.After all our concerns about her health, riding again is a fantastic indication. It's very amazing to be able to do that at age 96.
During her Platinum Jubilee celebrations, there was a little mention of the Queen getting back on horseback.We are so delighted you are still in the saddle, and we are all glad there is still more to come, the Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell had remarked at the Thanksgiving Service at St. Paul's Cathedral.
"So I want to thank you for sticking with it."It is reported that the Queen developed a liking for horses at the young age of three.
In January 1930, she reportedly received her first riding instruction on a Shetland pony at the exclusive riding school in the Buckingham Palace Mews.
She then established herself as a regular at the annual Windsor Horse Show and the Royal Ascot Races.
The monarch and her mother both shared a passion for horses, and the latter has been breeding and competing horses for more than 60 years.
Only the Derby has eluded the Queen's thoroughbreds, who have triumphed in four of the five flat racing classics: the 1,000 and 2,000 Guineas, the Oaks, and the St. Leger.Around 180 horses and ponies belonging to the Queen are housed at several royal estates from Sandringham to Balmoral.For a BBC documentary about the monarch's love of horse racing, the Queen's cousin Margaret Rhodes was interviewed several years ago. She stated: "You see I think that early on, when she became Queen, I think that she had to sacrifice within herself an awful lot of emotions and thoughts of the future and everything else."
"But I think with horses it's different universe in that it lowers you to just the person in connection to the animal, and you're not a Queen, you're just a human being," the speaker continued.
Princess Anne, who shares the Queen's passion for horses, inherited it from her mother.
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