Princess Charlotte has paid tribute to her great-grandmother the Queen with a badge pinned to the outfit at Her Majesty's state funeral.
The seven-year-old royal walked behind the late monarch’s coffin alongside her older brother Prince George and her parents, the Prince and Princess of Wales. Dressed in black and wearing a formal hat, one small detail stood out on Charlotte’s outfit.
Pinned to her coat was a silver horseshoe badge, in what is believed to be a nod to the Queen’s love of horse riding and racing, The Mirror reports . The monarch was given her first horse, a Shetland pony called Peggy, at the age of four - by 18 the Queen was an accomplished rider, and continued to ride horses into her nineties.
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Princess Charlotte, along with her brothers George and Louis, is following in her great-grandmother’s footsteps by taking up horse riding herself. The pin badge worn by the young princess represents a love of horse riding fostered by the Queen being passed on through future generations of the Royal Family.
The Queen’s state funeral marks the first time that George and Charlotte have been seen in public since the death of the Queen, who they affectionately called ‘Gan Gan’. As the youngest of William and Kate’s children, four-year-old Prince Louis stayed at home while the rest of the family attended the service.
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