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Ascot and Royalty, from Queen Anne to Queen Elizabeth II, 1711 - 2018

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Titre :	Ascot and Royalty, from Queen Anne to Queen Elizabeth II, 1711 - 2018
fait partie de :	Horses and Courts International Symposium
Auteurs :	S. Magee, Auteur
Type de document :	document vidéo
Année de publication :	2018
Format :	26 min.
Langues:	Anglais
Mots-clés :	Mots-clés équitation Ascot ; Reine Elisabeth II Equivoc Angleterre ; Course
Résumé :	From the moment in spring 1711 when Queen Anne decided that a clearing in Windsor Forest was the ideal venue for horse races, Ascot and royalty have been inextricably intertwined. Throughout that summer, the Duke of Somerset’s account books record expenditure on the construction of the running surface –example, to the principal contractor for paying “sundry workmen employed in making and perfecting the round Heat on Ascot Common” –but Anne herself had little opportunity to enjoy the new course, which had been established for less than three years when she died in August 1714. Her successor George I did not share her enthusiasm for racing, and Ascot went into a decline only partially reversed during the reigns of George II and George III. But George III’s son who became Prince of Wales (and was known as “Prinny”) was very keen on racing, and especially on the social side of the sport: the caption to a popular early-nineteenth-century engraving dripped with irony when describing “His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales with a Lady of Quality driving to Ascot Races”. George acceded in 1820, and four years later the royal party first made a formal procession in carriages up the Straight Mile –since when the Royal Procession has remained Prinny’s lasting legacy to the Royal Meeting. William IV disliked racing –an attitude not helped by his having his hat dented by a stone thrown by a one-legged ex-seaman with a pension issue in 1832 –but Victoria loved it. “I was very much amused at the races”, the princess wrote after attending the 1834 meeting, and to mark her accession founded the Queen’s Vase, a race still run today. The passion for Ascot of her oldest son “Bertie” knew no bounds, and while George V and George VI maintained the royal racing and breeding interests, the present queen’s love of the sport echoed that of Edward VII. She has owned many winners at Royal Ascot, notably Gold Cup winner Estimate in 2013.
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En ligne :	https://vimeo.com/279061119

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