Queen travels the length of UK in one day
IT WAS a busy day for any person but the 95-year-old monarch took her engagements in Edinburgh and later in Windsor in her stride yesterday.
The Queen smiled broadly as she took her seat at the Royal Windsor Horse Show, held in the grounds of Windsor Castle, on the first day of the four-day event.
The show had competitors taking part in dressage, showjumping and carriage riding, a much-loved pastime of her late husband, the Duke of Edinburgh. Earlier in the day, for her final engagement as part of the traditional Royal Week visit to Scotland, she spoke to climate experts at the Edinburgh Climate Change Institute.
During a visit with the Princess Royal to learn about its work, she was heard to say, “We are going to have to change the way we do things”.
Dressed in a jade green Angela Kelly outfit with a ruby and diamond brooch, the Queen arrived at the University of
Edinburgh in a hybrid Land Rover and immediately remarked “it’s electric” as she got out the vehicle.
She was speaking with experts from Climate XChange when she could be heard commenting about the impact of tackling the issue of global warming.
She said: “It does mean we are going to have to change the way we do things, really, in the end.”
Anne Marte Bergeseng, knowledge-exchange manager at the organisation, said that her discussion with the monarch covered “everything, essentially” about a greener future and what that means for our way of living.
The Queen and her daughter Anne also met representatives from the Children’s Parliament, who explained their recent contribution to Scotland’s Climate Assembly.
The children presented the monarch with two rowan trees that will be planted as part of the Queen’s Green Canopy, the UK-wide tree-planting initiative to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee next year.