The Royal Family couldn't hold back their laughter following a joke about Aintree during the National Thanksgiving Service.
In his sermon for the National Service of Thanksgiving at St Paul's Cathedral, The Most Rev Stephen Cottrell compared the monarch's well-known love of horse racing to her long reign. The Queen bowed out of attending Friday morning's event in central London after suffering "discomfort" following the first day of festivities for her Platinum Jubilee.
However, the Archbishop of York thanked Her Majesty for "staying the course" and suggested her reign "reflects the distance of Aintree more than the sprints of Epsom".
