A special visitor to our town yesterday.

On a beautiful Autumn day Her Majesty came to visit us to open the new Heritage Centre for horse racing and Sporting Art.
Before that she unveiled a magnificent bronze statue depicting herself with a mare and foal celebrating her love for horses and her 90th.birthday.
As you can imagine it was mahem with everyone trying to get a closer look.....
All of the school children and thousands of other lined the streets and flag waving was the order of the day.




Admiring the statue.





This is as close as I could get........incredibly this was the first time I had seen her in real life.


The incredible work of art.








This is Princess Haya ,wife of Sheikh Mohammed who went some way to funding the Statue.





This was how she arrived.
Bless her.

 

Nice one Roders

Not something you see everyday

 

Must be really nice for one to be able to unveil a statue of one's self.

 

You managed to get some good photo's of her @roders well done!!

When I was growing up there was a recreation ground which I would pass on the way to and from school. It was there that the Royal Helicopter would land and it did mean that, over the years, we were able to see a few of the Royals arriving/departing. Wish I'd had a camera back then!