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Sean Coughlan Lt. Col. Woodward goes on to say the army's "immediate priority" was the safety of "all soldiers, members of the public and our horses".
BBC News royal correspondent He thanks a long list of emergency service providers who were involved in handling the incident this morning.
The Household Cavalry, jangling up the Mall, are an He says their quick reaction enabled "swift treatment" of the injured soldiers and horses.
important part of the King’s official birthday parade. Finally, he says that incidents like this are "extremely rare" and says the army is grateful to the public for "not making loud noise around our horses."
It’s a big, tourist-friendly event in June, with its annual
Trooping the Colour ceremony.
And if these runaway horses were getting ready for that
parade, then they would have been preparing for an event that must really test
their temperament.
Pressing in along the route will be crowds, cameras and all
the commotion of a summer’s day out.
Last year, in his first parade as monarch, King Charles was
on a horse that certainly got lively with all the pressure. It was variously
described as “frisky”, “spicy” and “unruly” by commentators.
And going back to the preparations ahead of the late Queen’s
Platinum Jubilee in 2022, when the media encampment was being set up, a soldier was thrown from his horse outside Buckingham Palace. An embarrassingly
public place, but these things happen.
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