As part Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee Celebration, a pageant at Windsor Castle in May will feature 500+ horses along with performers from 16 foreign countries including Inuits from Canada, cowboys from Oklahoma, presidential bodyguards from India, Cossacks from Russia and Huasos from Chile.
The pageant has been described as “the most wonderful and appropriate celebration” possible for a monarch who is famously passionate about horses.
The World Comes to Windsor show will take place on May 10, 11 and 13 and will be attended by the Queen on the final night. It will be broadcast by ITV.
Simon Brooks Ward, the director and producer of the event, said: “It’s going to be a journey around the world, taking the audience on a 60-year journey in 90 minutes."
The horse show will be a curtain raiser for the program of Jubilee events in the spring and summer, which will culminate in the Jubilee weekend in June, featuring a concert at Buckingham Palace and the River Thames Pageant.