One of the famous passions of the queen Isabel II it was the horses. She rode a Shetland pony named Peggy for the first time at the age of 3, and at 18 she was already a professional. Her favorite specimen was named after “Merlin”, the famous magician of British culture. She in total she had more than thirty racehorses, to which He personally chose their names and encouraged them during competitions, another of the passions of the former sovereign of England.
The last head of the royal stables, John Warren, revealed in an interview that the queen’s passion for racing was such that every morning she read the specialized newspaper in Turf Racing Post. And even the queen came to say goodbye to her from her great passion just a couple of months ago, when she was seen riding a horse for the last time, at the age of 96 and ignoring all the recommendations of her doctors, who theLast year, they claimed that I would never ride again.
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But this passion would not only have brought her closer to racing and even, according to some publications, to have obtained millionaire profits with her horses in competition, but it would also have brought her closer to a “secret love” with whom she was in charge of taking care of her stables. : a man expressly chosen by Elizabeth II and called “Porchie” by her friends.
“Porchie”, a love story
According to reports, Isabel’s passion for horses was the trigger for an alleged secret love affair with Henry George Reginald Molyneux Herbert, or “Porchie” as his friends called him. This is the sixth son of the Earl of Carnarvon, who from a very young age professed a great friendship with the queen, among other things, because he shared her love for these animals. and it was in 1969 that “Porchie” became the queen’s stable manager, also known as one of her closest friends.
There were always rumors about the true nature of the relationship between Elizabeth and Porchie, but, as is often the case in monarchies, the absolute truth was never known.
Four years after Elizabeth became queen, Porchie became engaged to Jean Margaret Wallop, marrying in January 1956. He died suddenly on September 11, 2001, and his son-in-law, John Warren, succeeded him as his racing manager.
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The series “The Crown”, which tells the private life of the monarch, slips something about the possible romance in an episode of the third season. The Queen’s former Press Secretary Dickie Arbiter criticized the series for suggesting romance. “The queen is the last person in the world who would have even considered looking at another man,” the former official said. But the reality is that this will be a secret that will become one of the great myths of the life of Elizabeth II.
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