Diana’s statue will be unveiled on July 1
The brothers have been working together on the project to honor their mom before Megxit caused a rift between them.
Meghan and Harry announced they were stepping down from their positions as senior members of the Royal Family in January 2020.
Tensions between the brothers came to a head after Meghan and Harry made explosive allegations against the Royal Family during their interview with Oprah.
However, in August 2020, months after Megxit, the brothers set aside their differences to issue a joint statement that the statue in honor of their mother will be unveiled on the grounds of Kensington Palace on July 1, 2021.
Nicola Wilson’s excellent results with James and Jo Lambert’s Bulana are well known, from winning at Boekelo and Barbury to their individual bronze and team gold at the European Eventing Championships in 2017.
But the pair’s initial partnership did not look so promising and it took time to work out the key to this feisty mare.
Nicola started riding Bulana – known as “Berry” – in 2014, when they were second in the CIC2 (now CCI3 -S) at Pau Horse Trials, their first international event together.
“She’s always been such a trier and very positive and always ready to go go go,” says Nicola, speaking in an interview on episode 40 of The Horse & Hound Podcast, currently supported by NAF.
Now, writing in the
Daily Mail, Sebastian Shakespeare has proclaimed that the monarch can be dubbed Queen of the Turf, given her long-running success as a racehorse breeder and owner. During her time involved in the sport, she’s accumulated no less than 531 wins by around 3,280 runners – winning a staggering 16 per cent of her races.
The Queen admiring a horse at the Royal Windsor Horse Show in 1952
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