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Because I don't tag exhaustively I have no way of finding the entry again but. Horse-owning woman lent her favourite horse to an insistent friend riding in Windsor forest, cautioning her not to pull on the reins. Friend pulled on the reins, horse did whatever horse would do and snapped a leg. Called owner, owner came totally overcome, sat with her horse while waiting for the vet to arrive to put horse down, and because the forest is near the castle, had to wait a good long time for vet's vehicle to be cleared. Woman in headscarf (in a Land rover, I believe) came up on them, asked what had happened, horse owner answered shortly and angrily, woman briefly sympathised and went on her way. Woman was the Queen.