Understandably, the accident has briefly disrupted royal plans. The annual summer season photograph shoot at Paleis Huis ten Bosch has been postponed, and Queen Máxima skipped her look at the CGAP Congress to stay together with her daughter. King Willem-Alexander continued solo at the Holland Festival.
An achieved equestrian, Princess Catharina-Amalia is ceaselessly seen atop her chestnut mare, Mojito. Her ardour for riding is well-known and so, too, it appears, is the threat that comes with it. At Tatler, the incident brings to thoughts one other seasoned royal rider: Princess Anne. Her personal historical past of horseback mishaps has develop into one thing of a galloping legend.
In June 2024, the Princess Royal was hospitalised after a fall at her Gatcombe Park property, struggling a concussion and reminiscence loss. Ever stoic, she returned to responsibility inside weeks, later saying, ‘I can’t keep in mind a single factor about it.’ True to type, she resumed championing her longstanding patronage, Riding for the Disabled Association.
This wasn’t the royal’s first saddle incident. At 14, Princess Anne caught her finger in the reins at her faculty in Kent, Benenden. In 1976, she was knocked unconscious and suffered a cracked vertebra after a horse fell on her throughout the Portman Horse Trials. Doctors declared it not severe sufficient to maintain her from competing in the Montreal Olympics that very same yr, a characteristically Anne end result.
